NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

clearwinner This film is pretty unusual for a bollywood film because it stays true to its content, but nevertheless tempo fades out as the movie progresses. THe direction was not upto the mark which you could see because it does not let you to be involved with the characters and even the characters are not given proper introduction so it becomes difficult to understand which character is narrator talking about. The music is just average. There should have been a little more tension but it does not happen. Even the editing is not done properly. It seems as if you missed something but actually nothing happens. I loved the scene where the bomb explodes in the initial scenes. But overall a good attempt considering it is a difficult film to make

morrison-dylan-fan Since having somehow forgotten about picking up the film after seeing the DVD being priced at outrageous amounts a few years ago,I was pleased to recently be reminded about the movie from a fellow IMDber,who told me that this was a modern classic that I really needed to catch up to.Prepairing to start searching for the title later that night,I thrillingly found my plans to surprisingly be stopped in their tracks,thanks to a friend telling me that he had recently signed up to an online DVD rental service called Love Film,and that the very first title that was right at the top of his list for films to rent,was Black Friday.The plot:India-1993:Investigating 12 bomb sites in the hope of finding any evidence on either the people or the group that coordinated the attacks,a bomb squad is alerted by a resident in a near by tower block that he has spotted a scooter,which has been parked unattended outside the flats.Carefully opening the scooter,the squad discover that the scooter is filled with explosives,that only failed to go off,thanks to the explosives jamming up the detonator mechanic's.Checking up on the registration details for the scooter and an explosives-filled van,that mysteriously seems to have been left undetonated at the very last moment,a group of Anti Terrorist Squiad police officers, lead by Deputy Commisonar Rakesh Maria uncover the address's that the owners of the van ans scooter are said to be located at.Raiding the location,Rakesh is furious to discover that underworld drug smuggler "Tiger" Memon was a resident of the building until one day ago,when he suddenly "disappeared".Furious over Memon going deep into cover the moment that the attacks began,Maria starts to franticly search for anyone who has even the slightest connection to "Tiger",in the hope of digging out Memon and the other surviving gang members involved in the attacks,along with trying to fully unravel the motives that caused the attack to take place.View on the film:Frozen in time for 2 years after filming by the Indian high court,due to the real life court case of the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts taking place,the screenplay by writer/ director Anurag Kashyap,inspired by S. Hussain Zaidi non-fiction novel Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts reveals that time has been unable to fan the flames of the passionate fire contained within the movie.Bravely keeping away from taking the easy route of siding with either the police or terrorist,and tearing any potential falls into melodrama into shreds,Kashyap plants his feet right in the centre of the horrific Bombay blasts and the percussing 1992 riots,and uses brittle,to the bone dialogue to show in an unflinching vision that chaos becomes a never ending cycle of chaos and death.Separating the 1992-1994 period into overlapping chapters,Kashyap matches his brilliantly brittle dialogue by staying away from any exposition,by instead putting the viewer right in the middle of the characters lives and intelligently allowing for the viewer to make their own full picture of the events depicted in the movie,from a riot that is shown later in the film,which is connected to the riot that a suspected terrorist mentions in a snippet of dialogue right at the beginning,to the contrasting amount of focus that the police put into investigating the 1992 riots,with the 1993 bombings.Elaborating on the multi-threaded,precise nature of the screenplay with his dazzling directing,Anurag Kashyap and cinematography Nataraja Subramanian uses red,blue,yellow and green filters to give the film an extraordinary intense atmosphere,with the red filer giving the police interrogation scenes an extremely gritty,smoking hot feeling,as the police's frustrations over failing to gather evidence for the location of Tiger Memon,boils over into the manner that they treat the people suspected of collaborating with Tiger. Along with the clever use of a red filter for the police interrogation's scenes,Kashyap uses a yellow filter for the scenes between Tiger Memon,the collaborator's of the 1993 bombing and the victims of the 1992 riots,which along with giving the scenes a real grittiness also creates a strong raw feeling of the wounds that the victims of the 1992 riots have been left with,that are impossible to ever become healed.Showing the real cost of the events depicted in the movie,Kashyap closely works with editor Aarti Bajaj to inject the film with moments of archive footage,which along with showing the real people behind the events,also gives the viewer a terrifying glimpse of what actually took place,which leads to Black Friday being a film that no viewer will ever forget.

sumanbarthakursmailbox I watched Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday, a film about the 1993 serial bomb blasts in Mumbai and I've decided it's one of the best films I've watched in recent years.The film is based on journalist Hussain Zaidi's heavily researched book by the same name, and what makes Black Friday so controversial - and the reason why it was such a battle to bring this film to screen - is because it takes names. It's a brave film that documents exactly what happened, based on extensive research and interviews. No names have been changed, no imaginary characters have been created. The film centers around police commissioner Rakesh Maria's investigations on the blasts.We learn that the blasts were executed by Tiger Memon on the instruction of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. The remarkable thing about this film is that the director makes a concentrated effort to provide us several points of view including those of Rakesh Maria, Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and one of main bombers Baadshah Khan. Now you need to understand, it's never easy doing justice to so many viewpoints, it's always tricky because you tend to suffocate the voice of some characters, while the others get a glowing presence.But that's not the case in Black Friday. Anurag Kashyap manages to tell each character's story quite well and he even succeeds in capturing what's going on in their heads. Just look at the way he translates the restlessness and subsequently the feeling of betrayal that bomber Baadshah Khan feels after he's planted the bombs and fled from Mumbai. We tend to use the word 'realistic' very generously when we're talking about films. We describe Madhur Bhandarkar and Nagesh Kukunoor as realistic filmmakers, but truth is most of their films are exaggerated to a great degree to create drama. Now of course that's not a bad thing, because it's the drama that grips you and engages you in most of their films.But if you want to see what realism is really about, then Black Friday is the perfect example because Anurag Kashyap shoots the film in actual locations and he shoots it in such a natural, everyday manner that you feel like you're watching the news and not a feature.It can't be easy recreating the Bombay of fourteen years ago, before the mobile phone revolution, before the satellite invasion, before the city was plastered with hoardings.But Kashyap does it all so well. He takes these crane shots in a manner that you're looking down at the goings-on in these chawls and these bastis, he uses lighting so well, especially in those mono-chromatic interrogation scenes.The actual blast scenes are shot in such a languid style, exactly the way a bystander would have experienced it -a sudden explosion disturbing the everyday routine of life in that location.One cannot say enough about the actors cast to play all the central roles in this film. Kay Kay Menon as Rakesh Maria is just spectacular, as are Pawan Malhotra playing Tiger Memon and Akash Srivastava playing Baadshah Khan.The resemblance that Vijay Maurya bears to Dawood Ibrahim can only be described as frighteningly close, and the scene in which Dawood is first introduced to us in the film, is nothing short of genius.To be honest, it's not just the leads, but every single actor even in bit roles who bring so much to the film. Kashyap uses music magnificently, and the haunting rhythms of Indian Ocean truly reverberate, especially in the film's closing credits.You know, very few films are able to balance solid content with technical superiority, and Black Friday is definitely one of those rare films that succeeds in transporting you to its world while you're in the cinema watching the film. The real success of Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday lies in the fact that unlike some other very good underworld films, it doesn't sensationalise, nor glorify crime and violence. The director doesn't shoot the film dramatically, yet there is so much drama in the plot that it feels like a roller-coaster ride. Remember, it's a film that doesn't shy away from pointing fingers. Now although much of the credit for that must go to the source material - Hussain Zaidi's book - you cannot deny that film brings to life that horrible incident so much more effectively than words on a page. If there is a problem that I have with the film, it is the fact that it is too long. Post intermission, Black Friday drags its feet and you find your attention wavering. About a half-hour shorter, this film would have been magnificent. As it is, in all its two-hours-forty-minute glory, it is still quite fantastic.Believe me, no film yet has brought me so close to giving it a ten out of ten rating, but because it's just a little short of true greatness, I'm going to go with nine of ten for Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday. Please don't dismiss it as a boring art film, don't confuse it for a documentary, it's a dramatic feature that will rock your boat. This is the kind of film to send to the Oscars. This is what we need to show, we're capable of.

bluefoxniner It saddens me that posters on this thread have the need to brand this as a 'bollywood' movie. the brilliance that is ' black Friday' is so far,far,far removed and so many million times better than any of the dross that conventional ' bollywood' could ever even HOPE to produce makes 'bollywood' a throughly inappropriate branding for ' black Friday'.for me, 'black Friday' is paving the way for what Indian cinema *should* be doing more of....that is, challenging it's audience and offering some intellectual stimulation.I realise that the Indian cinema public's demand is overwhelmingly for ' boy meets girl, boys long lost brother/best friend also loves the same girl, they have a fight, then they realise they are brothers and engage in a 30 minute dance recital', type of bullshit, but Indians are becoming more sophisticated and I for one cannot wait for the more serious and discerning productions to come from India that truly challenges the mind and senses.'Black Friday' in this regards represents a HUGE turning point for Indian cinema.don't miss it..it's a must see movie on so many levels.