Black Friday (2004)
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86% of critics liked it
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86% of users liked it
(3,551 ratings)
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap explores the events following the March 2, 1993, bombings that ripped through Mumbai, India while simultaneously offering a cinematic study on just how such a tragedy can change a city in this adaptation of the book by author S. Hussain Zaidi. Mumbai has been decimated by a… More Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap explores the events following the March 2, 1993, bombings that ripped through Mumbai, India while simultaneously offering a cinematic study on just how such a tragedy can change a city in this adaptation of the book by author S. Hussain Zaidi. Mumbai has been decimated by a series of powerful bombs, and now top cop Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) is determined to apprehend the culprits responsible for plunging the city into chaos. Soon after discovering several more vehicles leaded down with bombs, Maria discovers that Tiger Menon, a powerful businessman from the Muslim area of Mahim, has been shifting funds in the Mumbai underworld in order to finance the bombings. Now, as the bombers shuttle quickly from one location to another with police hot on their trail, it's only a matter of time before the authorities learn the whole story. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Anurag Kashyap
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 22, 2005 Wide
- Studio
- Adlabs
Critic Reviews
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Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Black Friday is a moving and exhausting work of angry humanism.
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Derek Elley, Variety
A fact-based procedural whose drama gets lost amid its analytical detail.
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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
A superb and devastating piece of cinema that with justification can be compared favorably to Gillo Pontocorvo's classic The Battle of Algiers in its dispassionate yet sweeping journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events.
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David Chute, L.A. Weekly
The underused Indian actor Kay Kay Menon is perfectly cast as a crisply correct detective keeping a tight lid on his seething anger in Black Friday, a rigorously naturalistic docudrama about a complex police investigation.
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Ethan Alter, Film Journal International
A potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions.
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Cast
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Kay Kay Menon
as Rakesh Maria
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Aditya Shrivastava
as Badshah Khan
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Pavan Malhotra
as Tiger Memon
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Vijay Maurya
as Dawood Ibrahim
