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.
Black Friday (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 6
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Theatrical Release:Feb 9, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the March 12, 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved - police, conspirators, victims,... Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the March 12, 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved - police, conspirators, victims, and middlemen. The film is based on S. Hussain Zaidis' book of the same name which depicted the shocking and violent events of that fateful day which followed just two weeks after the bombing of the World Trade Center. Black Friday was also nominated for the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival. -- © Black Friday. [More]
Starring: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava, Pawan Malhotra
Starring: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava, Pawan Malhotra
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Director: Anurag Kashyap
Studio: AdLabs
Reviews for Black Friday
A potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions.
In the aftermath of 9/11, its assertion that religious terrorism is about more than simply faith is food for thought.
There's a lot of material covered in the film and its structure ... requires an audience to pay careful and close attention. But [director Anurag] Kashyap keeps the action moving and the overall movie turns out to be engrossing.
A fact-based procedural whose drama gets lost amid its analytical detail.
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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