Black Friday (2004)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Anurag Kashyap

Writers:

Anurag Kashyap (screenplay)
Hussain Zaidi (book)

Release Date:

9 February 2007 (India)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

The story of the Bombay bomb blasts

Plot:

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen. |

Plot Keywords:

Multiple Story Line | Overhead Camera Shot | Terrorist | Bomb In Public Place | Blood Splatter

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Kay Kay Menon	...	Rakesh Maria
Pavan Malhotra	...	Tiger Memon
Aditya Srivastava	...	Badshah Khan
Dibyendu Bhattacharya	...	Yeda Yakub
Kishore Kadam	...	Dangle
Gajraj Rao	...	Dawood Phanse
Zakir Hussain	...	Nand Kumar Chougale
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Imtiaz Ali	...	Yakub Memon
Raj Arjun	...	Nasir Deklu
Ragesh Asthana	...	Mohammad Dossa
Sushovan Banerjee	...	Abhay Zarapkar
Asif Basra	...	Shanawaz Qureshi
Aditya Bhattacharya	...	Sheikh Aziz
Uday Chandra	...	Old Neighbour at Al Hussaini
Raj Singh Chaudhary	...	Mushtaq tarani (as Raja Choudhary)
Aliya Curmally	...	Shabana Memon
Suresh Dubey	...	Sabir
Sanjay Gandhi	...	DCP K.L. Bishnoi
Bharat Ganeshpure	...	Bomb squad member
Manoj Goyal	...	Qullu Mohammed Khan
Ashraf Ul Haq	...	Bashir Khan
Milind Inamdar	...	Mohamed Iqbal
Pankaj Jha	...	Anwar Theba
Ravi Kale	...	Sawant
Anurag Kashyap	...	ISI Man
Pratima Kazmi	...	Badshah's mother
Arbaaz Ali Khan	...	Javed Chikna
Sarfaraz Khan	...	Taxi Driver at Princess Street Flyover
Ashok Lokhande	...	Sub Inspector at Navpada Police Station
Vijay Maurya	...	Dawood Ibrahim
Loveleen Mishra	...	Newstrack Interviewer
Arindam Mitra	...	M.V. Ramani
Pranay Narayan	...	Imtiaz Ghavate
Nowaz	...	Asgar Mukadam (as Nawazuddin)
Bobby Parvez	...	Rakesh Khurana
Sharad Ponkshe	...	Anup Painath
Ajai Rohilla	...	R.K. Singh
Sujata Sehgal	...	Mafeesa Khan
Happy Sharma	...	Sardar Khan
Murli Sharma	...	Virendra Vani
Jeetendra Shastri	...	Salim Phansopkar
Jeetu Shastri	...	Tainur
Raju Shrestha	...	Parvas Shaikh
Savi Sidhu	...	A.S. Samra
Suresh Singh	...	Majid Khan
Sachin Suvarna	...	Shoaib Ghansore

Runtime:

143 min | Switzerland:161 min (Locarno Film Festival)

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Singapore:R21 | UK:18 (cut) | India:A

Filming Locations:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Mid Day Multimedia Limited

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the dog is taken inside the small go-down to check the sacks containing the RDX, it simply whimpers and comes out(because it only smells fish), thus indicating that there is no explosive material. But when the cop comes in and kicks the bottom sack, he finds the stuff. The dog itself smelled the lowermost sack in the first place, yet it did not bark.

Quotes:

Rakesh Maria: Asgar Mukadam?
[Asgar murmurs an affirmation]
Rakesh Maria: Sit straight! Since when have you been working with Tiger Memon?
Asgar Mukadam: One year.
Rakesh Maria: What do you know about him?
Asgar Mukadam: Sir, I was merely a manager there.
Rakesh Maria: One year is long enough to become a hood from a manager.
Asgar Mukadam: Sir I only used to keep accounts.
Rakesh Maria: But you just said you were a manager! Look Asgar, I haven't eaten anything since morning... My head is hurting and I'm hungry... If you dont talk, I will make you do so! Tiger smuggles Silver, doesn't he? What else does he do?
[Silence]
[...]

seen without subtitles

this is movie is fantastic. two things; i seen this movies in Bombay( Mumbai) where it had no subtitles. i didn't understand a single word that was being said but i totally understood almost every scene in the film ,(except those that all new characters in them). luckily i had just read Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found By sekula Metha, which details a lot of the events in the movie. i am from Ireland and i don't speak any of the languages in th film. Marastaha? Hindi? As an exercise in visual film Making it was excellent. i cant wait to watch this again with subtitles

The acting was superb. deserves to be seen in the west