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Black Friday |
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| Movie: | Black Friday |
| Director: | Anurag Kashyap |
| Genre: | Drama, Social |
| Start Cast: |
Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava and Pawan Malhotra |
| Our Rating: |
**** |
| Review By: | Anubhuti Kaul |
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 Bombay Bomb Blasts……12th March……1993…..well, if you were one of those fortunate ones who did not even know what these blasts were all about then this movie is all set to make you a part of it….but you must thank God that even though you saw these blasts live you escaped death….gruesome death!!! The bomb blast shots in the movie shake you up and for a while you tend to forget that it is just a movie. It has been shot not like a reel but real, absolutely real. Anurag Kashyap has done a wonderful job of recreating that entire time frame of distress, fright and shock, investigations, arrests and much more when the 12 explosions hit the Bombay city at key locations.The story line of the movie is well connected and streamlined direction of incidents associated with the blast. The way Kashyap touches the whole process of how Bombay blasts were planned and executed is astounding. Right from Babri Masjid incident to the arrests of accused, the whole story has been compiled as artistically as a pyramid. In the beginning of the movie it is hard to believe that the director would be able to wind up the script in such a manner. Writing a review for a movie like ‘Black Friday’ is a real tough job. It is so difficult to put everything in place and write about one particular thing at a time. When you are writing about one thing there are already ten more things at the back of your head, which are equally important to pen down. Also I strongly feel that there should have been at least four intermissions in this movie, as it gets so heavy on your head that the fatigue drips down your entire system. By the time the movie reaches an end you are so exhausted that you don’t even want to walk out.
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 The performance of the actors thoroughly compliments the direction and the script of the movie. It becomes a tough task to figure out who performed the best. Every actor was too good in his or her respective character. Whether it was Kay Kay Menon as an Additional Commissioner of Police or Aditya Srivastava as Badshah Khan or Pawan Malhotra as Tiger Memon. It was a display of superb performance by even the smallest character in the movie. Juice wala, gatekeeper, resident, pick up any minor character also, one tends to feel as if they were the actual people who were there in the year 1993. Some of the sequences are portrayed so well that one can never forget them. How Badshah khan hides himself in various locations and how finally he gets caught in his own hometown. Portraying of Dawood Abrahims character, and making him resemble actual Dawood. The way Kashyap makes you aware of the fact that Pakistan was involved in the supply of RDX for the entire series of bomb blasts. How people were trained across the border to achieve the expertise of committing such high level crimes. How investigations of the blasts are carried out and how the arrest most of those involved in the blasts happened. According to the reports around 100 people have been found guilty out of 122 and the trial of the case has waited for 13 long years.
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 Some scenes in the movie are well thought, whether it was giving a different effect to the interrogation sequence or whether it was relating the movie shots to the real happenings of 1993. All the shots have been mingled so well that they look a like two sides of the same coin. One can easily guess that there has been a complete thought process behind each single scene in the movie. Something like just a phone call for Kay Kay Menon, which he receives from his wife, indicates……???? I leave this for you to see that what it indicates. But then still just one thing where I felt Kashyap missed out was this that Bananas are not kept in Freezers and even if they are one cant eat them just like that.
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 The movie was all set to hit the theatres 2 years back but because the trial for these serial blasts was going on in the real courts, it could not get the permission for the release. But I must say one could even wait till eternity to watch a movie like this. It is a masterpiece in its true sense. These blasts had struck me so hard that if I had not to write this review I would have walked out of the theatre much before the end. It was a very heavy dose for a sensitive brain like mine. After walking out of the theatre I didn’t know what to do to get rid of my spinning head, I walked up to have a very strong cup of coffee which did help me to get rid of the spinning head to some extent but then the entire series of bomb blast will remain carved deep down my heart.
Black Friday, a movie of its class in an entire sense is based on the book Black Friday written by S Hussain Zaidi. The blasts had taken away lives of more than 300 people and left more than 1000 people injured. And city Bombay is now called Mumbai.
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