Black Friday (2005) - Rotten Tomatoes

Black Friday (2005)

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90%
80%

AUDIENCE SCORE

91%

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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.

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Cast

Kay Kay Menon
as DCP Rakesh Maria
Pavan Malhotra
as Tiger Memon
Aditya Srivastava
as Badshah Khan
Vijay Maurya
as Dawood Ibrahim
Dibyendu Bhattacharya
as Yeda Yakub
Kishore Kadam
as Dangle
Zakir Hussain
as Inspector Nand Kumar Chougale
Gajraj Rao
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Critic Reviews for Black Friday

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (5)

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.

August 17, 2021 | Full Review…
Top Critic

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

January 23, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Top Critic

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

February 9, 2007 | Rating: 4.5/5
Top Critic

A fact-based procedural whose drama gets lost amid its analytical detail.

February 7, 2007 | Full Review…
Top Critic

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.

February 5, 2007
Top Critic

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.

October 27, 2020 | Full Review…
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Audience Reviews for Black Friday

I just could not get into this movie. I know this was a horrible event for the people of India, but this "docudrama" did not let me develop any emotion about the event, or the people involved. It is just an endless dialogue (3 hours) from the people who were supposedly involved. In this case, we need more "drama" than "docu".

Cynthia S.
Cynthia S.

Super Reviewer

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi Anurag Kashyap's gripping exposé on India's very real Hindu/Muslim conflict and the flawed philosophy of murder in the name of God. Gruesome and painstakingly detailed.

Randy Tippy
Randy Tippy

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