Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday was an attempt at remembering the brutal Mumbai blasts and the mass massacre which shook the entire nation and for the first time made the term Underworld or Dawood Ibrahim a part of our daily lingo. This film based on the book written by S.Hussain Zaidi makes you sit up and take notice of this powerful portrayal of the tragic truth. The 1993 blasts, the conspiracy, the reason behind the conspiracy and the journey of the conspirators are all dealt at length in this film. The cat and the mouse chase of the police and the underworld are so human that you can almost feel the angst of the characters. The actors in the film (and that includes the entire crew) be it Tiger Memon(Pawan Malhotra), Badshah(Aditya Shrivastava)or the ACP(KayKay) do not act. But, become the part. The D- day when Mumbai was caught unawares is the single most powerful scene in the movie. You are suddenly reminded of the Hiroshima- Nagasaki blasts(that shook Japan during the Second World War) and a mixture of emotions surfaces in your mind, all capable of shaking your very being. This is a film which leaves you feeling empty and disturbed. And that is why it scores.
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