Black Friday

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Black Friday

2007,

2h 51m,

Action/

Crime/

Drama

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90%

10 Reviews

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2,500+ Ratings

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10 Reviews

92%

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2,500+ Ratings

Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon (Pavan Malhotra) confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.

Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

Aug 17, 2021

Anurag Kashyap's powerful recreation of the events that led up to the Bombay blasts in 1993, banned initially and then released, remains one of the most daring docu-dramas of Hindi cinema.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

Jan 23, 2019

4/4

An audacious, daring and explosive piece of cinema. Watch the film and listen to the soundtrack.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

Feb 9, 2007

4.5/5

Black Friday is a moving and exhausting work of angry humanism.

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Film Companion Staff

Film Companion

Oct 27, 2020

Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday is more of a feeling - singularly shocking, stirring, cataclysmic, yet journalistic and depressingly objective, and one of the great achievements in Indian cinema.

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David Chute

L.A. Weekly

Feb 15, 2007

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

Feb 14, 2007

A potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions.

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Synopsis

Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon (Pavan Malhotra) confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Producer: Arindam Mitra
Screenwriter: Anurag Kashyap
Distributor: Adlabs Films
Production Co: Jhamu Sughand Productions, Mid Day Multimedia Limited
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.0K
Runtime: 2h 51m

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