Black Friday (2004 film)

Black Friday Hindi is a 2007 Indian crime film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap based on Black Friday The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings. The films creative consultant, Chandramohan Puppala, attempted to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was a nominee for the Best Film Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival. The film was so controversial that the Indian Censor Board did not allow it to be released in India for three years and was finally released onFebruary 2007 after Supreme Court of India allowed it following the verdict in the 93 Bombay blast case was delivered by TADA court.

In turn, the film traces the motive for the blasts to the Bombay riots, the bloody warring between the Hindu and Muslim communities from December 1992 to January 1993, which left over 1500 people dead. The Bombay riots were an unprecedented outburst of violence and abuse, resulting in enormous emotional trauma and property loss. Tiger Memon Pavan Malhotra is an underworld don whose office is burnt to cinders during the riots. The suffering of the Muslim minorities in the riots incites a meeting of underworld leaders in Dubai, who then take it on themselves to seek retribution. Tiger Bhai as Tiger Memon is called one of the chief inflamed suggests an attack on Bombay as the strongest message of retaliation, thus leading to Black FridayMarch 1993.Asgar Muqadam, Tiger Memons secretary is arrested onMarch 1993. He is beaten till he provides whatever information he has about the bomb blasts and that initiates a full police inquiry. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria Kay Kay Menon is put in charge of the case. The next piece in the puzzle is the arrest of Badshah Khan Aditya Shrivastava, one of the henchmen who had left Bombay and gone into hiding, who was found by the police onMay 1993. ........

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