Adopted from a book by the same name on the true events of 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Black Friday is a riveting piece of cinema. The film narrates the cause, the process, and the aftermath of the bombings in such detail and honesty that it can easily be confused with a documentary. It comes with unstructured dialogues, real locations, non-linear narrative, and yet it never strays from its ultimate objective. The film gives you time to get comfortable with the characters, and understand them, while still retaining the relationship an audience has with a subject. Nobody blends darkness with bouts of humour and empathy the way Anurag Kashyap does, and even he hasn’t topped Black Friday yet.
Director – Anurag Kashyap
