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

Black Friday is the Indian film network's desperate attempt to drag their industry into the 21st Century and to exemplify their ability to keep up with modern cinematic trends of the rest of the Western world. They've done this with what they seem to think resembles a fast; cutting; biting police procedural thriller that it would like to think cracks along at a mile a minute, but just ends up to speed what a lap-dance at a strip joint does to a performance of Swan Lake at The Royal Opera House. Therein, one observes the obvious inspirations drawn from Brazilian film City of God, as this slum-set and often canted crime-inclined multi-stranded thriller plays out; further-still, this post-Heat wave of thieves and those trying to apprehend them at once both being human with room for the criminals to come across as a little more humane than that of the people out to apprehend them. The film is, at the end of all the talking, a vile; ugly looking; repetitive and deeply unjudged piece covering too many characters consisting of several strands that don't ever creep above the level of terrifyingly dull and flits wildly from being this relatively lightly played, causality driven procedural thriller to this distasteful series of cop induced torture sequences.The film in no way represents an Americanisation of any sort of branch of popular Indian cinema, moreover it is more broadly akin to the feeble attempts that might mirror the local playground's weedy kid and his attempts to look credible alongside several other established juvenile figures, of whom have already put across their credibility through whatever means of character and venture. Released in the year of Greengrass' The Bourne Supremacy, and more broadly reflective on an aesthetical level of whatever smatterings you may have seen of Bay's then-recent Bad Boys II, Anurag Kashyap's film covers the very long and very arduous fallout of a series of Bombay bomb attacks in 1993 induced by a rouge terrorist cell, causing both great strife and beleaguerment. Shot through an ugly series of green; yellow and blue filters, Kashyap tries to tell the story (several, in fact) of how everything happened, but mostly consists his film of poorly played interrogation sequences; cops chasing down suspects through streets; suspects trying to cut themselves loose of the situation and how one cackling chief villain watched on from the sanctuary of the United Arab Emirates.Sadly, and this is more than likely the film's greatest sin, one needs to look deeper into the events around which Black Friday revolves in order to fully appreciate the work effort and general sociological affect everything had on the Indian people, much less rely on the quality of the film to understand any of this. The film lacks any sort of weighty, hearty core around which the events therein may transpire - Kashyap too often relying on the fact that these terrorist attacks happened and exploiting them so as to act as the heartfelt and tragic undercurrent to the fallout of this frantic search for the perpetrators and one or two of the terrorist cell member's own guilt trips. Let it be known that an hour in, one needs to think hard in order to recount that Black Friday's catalyst was what it was and that this is not the situation which befalls us when we watch something along the lines of 2006's World Trade Centre.The film covers varying people across a varying number of strands, some of whom are responsible for the attacks; some others of whom are charged with finding them – the whole thing constructed around a very sub-Traffic approach of varying hues; lens' and focus techniques masking what is essentially a mere series of scenes consisting of enquiring and apprehending. Kashyap bookends what eventually comes to form chapters of various people being detected and caught with graphics on how the real arrests played out, thus destroying any sort of suspense in the subsequent scenes. There is no nucleus around which things may revolve, merely the shooting of the same basic premise to a scenario several times that often descends into the sort of scene that sees police officers happily break a suspects fingers with a hammer and then ask them to sign some important forms. If he can't, which of course he can't since his digits are practically bent back the wrong way, they hurt him somewhere else.Rather uncomfortably, Kashyap packs more style into the above sequences than anything else and there is a growing sense throughout the film of a genuine shifting from depicting to humanising to sympathising with the terrorist cell and its members as being these humane and often flawed people doing what they do. Counteract that with the police, who are these nasty; horrid and brutish people continuously trying to track them down and implement unto them all manner of nasty things in an evil and mechanical way, and you have an ill-judged cocktail offering a way out to terrorists and a suggestion that respected figures of authority exist to be demonised. The film lacks the finesse of something like 1995's Heat in this regard, where blue tinted night set exterior shots of Los Angeles in tow with soothing electronic music acted as the cushion to the often brutal ground set shootouts and emotional angst imbued within the central characters. I read and hear that there have been a great number of Indian films from recent years, a string of which in the form of "Ishqiya"; "LSD" and "Harud" were broadcast on British television, which look to 'Western' codes and conventions for inspiration away from Indian filmic traditions. Where those remain to be seen, the likes of "My Name is Khan" and "The Japanese Wife" represent the more meekly tolerable of this ongoing "wave" – Black Friday epitomises the more unbearable.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.A message of Mahatma Gandhi, the line that begins the movie is all about the very essence of it. As per records, it's a 2004 film but it is sad to know that the release of this was delayed till Feb 9th 2007. Such is our censor board and government that was afraid of releasing a film that takes names of all involved in 1993 Bombay (now Mumbai) Blasts.Bravo Anurag Kashyap for directing this uncompromisingly with a vision that is so very rare in an industry like us. It's surely the most courageous attempt to make a film on an account of a real crime happened in 1993. More kudos to Hussain Zaidi, the original writer of the book who wrote actual facts and presenting reason for each doing of a character.The film is about investigation's done by Mumbai Cop Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) that unravels the Mumbai blasts plot setup by the dastardly un human Tiger Memon (Pawan Malhotra). Everything about the film is purely raw and makes you not audience but a participant of the activities happening on screen, they make you feel as a bystander on a blast as a silent observer of an investigation.Everything is right about this movie, the emotions portrayed by the accused Asgar Muqadam or Badshah Khan or those by inspector Dangle or MN Singh everyone brought life to the character they played.Anurag, the director captured every emotion be it trauma or a feeling of guilt or even of triumph everything was brought out well. The screenplay goes so very intelligently taking you through the whole incidents and the cinematography and art direction transform you to an era that you will believe is Bombay of 1993 where there were no mobile phones, no communication channels as email. And yet, so much was to be communicated in so little time from dubai to Pakistan to India's bombay.The best scene for me was Dawood's entry. It lasts hardly a minute but the impact it made was terrific.The music, oh my god he used it so very effectively be it a Bharam Bhaap Ke or a Bande ( a subtle message oriented philosophical song for end credits) or the whole background music, just beautiful may be the right word.The monochromatic red interrogation scenes make you feel eery and present an insight to the minds of all those doing it. All are great dialogues and apt ones but the most impact making one comes from Kay Kay when he describes that the culprits are actually victims.The editing had to be sharper coz at 2 hours and 40 minutes, the viewer may tend to slip off but this drama held me so very tight that I watched it for 3rd time without moving elsewhere. Be it a theatre or my computer, it just makes me sit and watch. This is how a gripping drama should be told.I dare say, in last decade, I have not seen a movie more raw, more realistic and more dramatic than this.When I first saw this film on first day in Fame Theatre in Pune, I remember that hardly 10 people would have seen this. Such is our appreciation for a movie that's easily one of the best made films. Having said that, so be it as long as there are movie goers who are passionate in watching films, this shall be remembered.I rate this 5/5 and give it best film made from 2000-2010. How many ever may come and go. This shall remain in memory for a long time, if seen once. This is the kind of film we should be nominating for every foreign award including Oscars. Sadly, our government has a different view on such films that are straight telling and bold.Thanks all for making it the film it stands today and I will revisit this again later.

I just watched Black Friday last night at home and didn't feel like missing a single scene or even a shot of the movie. I was totally concentrated and lost in this movie. I felt how a genuine, appreciable and real effort can go wasted on box office. Such movies should run well even on box office as well as in award functions.Kay Kay Menon is one of my favorite actor as well as Pavan Malhotra in his intense role playing. Hats off again to this movie from 1st scene to last one. The sequence of Badshah Khan moving Rampur to Jaipur to Kolkata and back to Rampur is truly worth-watching. I know this movie didn't mean to earn profits or a MASALA FLICK that's why it became a serious cinema and worth watching.Anurag Kashyap has really done a brilliant and hard-hitting job. I wanted to see this movie from the moment I came to knowledge about it. I really enjoyed every moment though I found there were many censor cuts during the movie and BEEP tones during bad words speaking. Anurag made it hardcore real.I am not here to reveal or tell the story as it will spoil concentration and excitement of the watchers who didn't watch this movie yet. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND BY BEING A REAL MOVIE-WATCHER TO SEE THIS MOVIE ANY WAY YOU CAN GET IT.I learned that because of politicians' dirty plays, games and just because of their selfishness such incidences happens frequently in our country and which interrupts India to move further progressively. Such degressing tact, cheats and bad intentions of our politicians ruins peace between 2 religions and whatever they do they do just for their own benefit. How many innocent people were killed during such riots and blasts that's nightmarish thought and DID THIS POLITICIANS EVER THINK ABOUT THEIR INNOCENT FAMILIES WHILE PLANNING SUCH THINGS? My anger is purely towards THE POLITICIANS not to any Hindu or Muslim. Now our young generation must come up with their new ideas, intelligence and unity to fail such bad and dishonest intentions of Indian POLITICIANS.BLACK Friday is most worth watching that's all.