Black Friday (2004)

Pawan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava and Kay Kay Menon were the main masterminds behind this docudrama and made it effective and worthwhile experience for people to see it whenever they feel like... It's based on the book Dongri to Dubai describing the 1993 Mumbai Blasts in the form of middlemen, main kingpin and all the investigations done in order to know how everything was planned and executed...Everything is like a magnum opus in this one for Anurag Kashyap...Do yourself a favour by watching it at the earliest as such classics don't always come across...Catch it asap...

ANurag Kashyap is a rare find to bollywood, his every film has been mostly contrioversial but yet somehow had something different to tell BLACK Friday was banned in India and released 2 years later in 2007 The film is based on real life incidents regarding the bomb blast in 1993. It is told in an episodic fashion and keeps going back and forte and is well handled, The film may seem documentary like but makes a great impact, there are scenes which shock you, while Badshah's story does have emotional moments, the film shows us what went behind the bomb blast.Direction is superb Music is good, the song Bandey is simply superb Camera-work is topnotch, the film tries to recreate the look of 1993 and is well handled though certain goof ups too are there.The film has rare talents explode Aditya Shrivastav one of the finest talents though who hardly gets focus in films, gets a meaty role and he delivers and how! Simply mindblowing, his expressions convey a lot and so does his dialogue Kaykay Menon is splendid as Rakesh Maria, Kishore Kadam is fab, Nawzuddin Siddiqui has a brief role and he is good, Divyendru Bhatacharya is good in a small role,Pawan Malhotra is topnotch in his role,Vijay Maurya is topnotch as Dawood and resembles him well,though his portions look carricatured,rest are all good

If I would be in jury, I would have given all major awards to this superbly created gem.its beyond award actually.i started to watch this movie in 2008 first, then at least once in 5 or 6 months I watched it, again n again alone or with friends n whom I told or requested to watch n feel this movie.i changed mobile , computer, now tablet, but I restored this single movie with me.i challenge that no business minded men will like this movie, because they think by mind n money, this film is for whom who has heart which beats for human and can feel all untold story and feelings of poor, minors,and each and every person in pain n trouble. Hope I could work with Anurag kashyap with my many stories which would certainly change the film making style and Indian cinema will be well watched n discussed in all over the world not only in UK, USA n some cis countries n not only by NRIs.thanks for this movie. Waiting for my show.....

It saddens me that posters on this thread have the need to brand this as a 'bollywood' movie. the brilliance that is ' black Friday' is so far,far,far removed and so many million times better than any of the dross that conventional ' bollywood' could ever even HOPE to produce makes 'bollywood' a throughly inappropriate branding for ' black Friday'.for me, 'black Friday' is paving the way for what Indian cinema *should* be doing more of....that is, challenging it's audience and offering some intellectual stimulation.I realise that the Indian cinema public's demand is overwhelmingly for ' boy meets girl, boys long lost brother/best friend also loves the same girl, they have a fight, then they realise they are brothers and engage in a 30 minute dance recital', type of bullshit, but Indians are becoming more sophisticated and I for one cannot wait for the more serious and discerning productions to come from India that truly challenges the mind and senses.'Black Friday' in this regards represents a HUGE turning point for Indian cinema.don't miss it..it's a must see movie on so many levels.