An unsettling insight into the Bombay blasts
After having won the reputation of being a jinxed director, scriptwriter Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday finally saw light of the day two years after its completion this week. Kashyap’s debut venture Paanch has still not been released, and Black Friday, despite the delay, has given us all the more reasons to look forward to it.
Based on the book by S Hussain Zaidi, Black Friday is an unsettling movie that makes a strong statement by showing rather than telling. Without making any comment, the movie shows how one incident leads to another and an entire generation walks the path of fanaticism. There are no heroes, neither villains in the movie. The characters are real, their names are real- Tiger Memon, Dawood Ibrahim, adding stroke after stroke of realistic touches to a moving narrative.
Rather than excruciatingly narrating the planning and execution of the 1993 Bombay blasts, the movie begins with the scene of the blast, including details about time and places of each. This is followed by the ‘chapters’: investigations, arrests of suspects and finally a peek into the psyche of those who planned the blasts. The scenes keep moving between past and present and an excellent editing keeps the narrative involving throughout.
Despite the real time footages of news, interviews and scenes from the blast sites- gore and dead bodies- the film disturbs, not disgusts. At times you find yourself clenching a fist with the kind of realistic portrayal of the scenes- and the way the police carries out the interrogations. It doesn’t keep you at the seat’s end, but sink back and think of what happened and how.
Theatre and TV actor Pawan Malhotra deserves a bravo for the way he enacts Tiger Memon. Same with Kay Kay, who plays the Mumbai ACP Rakesh Maria. Though the latter has few dialogues to his credit in the movie, his acting is what speaks for him. Background score by the band Indian Ocean moves with the mood of the movie, and the soundtrack Bandeh at the end comes as almost the epilogue. Arey ruk ja re Bandeh… haunts you long after.
Based on the book by S Hussain Zaidi, Black Friday is an unsettling movie that makes a strong statement by showing rather than telling. Without making any comment, the movie shows how one incident leads to another and an entire generation walks the path of fanaticism. There are no heroes, neither villains in the movie. The characters are real, their names are real- Tiger Memon, Dawood Ibrahim, adding stroke after stroke of realistic touches to a moving narrative.
Rather than excruciatingly narrating the planning and execution of the 1993 Bombay blasts, the movie begins with the scene of the blast, including details about time and places of each. This is followed by the ‘chapters’: investigations, arrests of suspects and finally a peek into the psyche of those who planned the blasts. The scenes keep moving between past and present and an excellent editing keeps the narrative involving throughout.
Despite the real time footages of news, interviews and scenes from the blast sites- gore and dead bodies- the film disturbs, not disgusts. At times you find yourself clenching a fist with the kind of realistic portrayal of the scenes- and the way the police carries out the interrogations. It doesn’t keep you at the seat’s end, but sink back and think of what happened and how.
Theatre and TV actor Pawan Malhotra deserves a bravo for the way he enacts Tiger Memon. Same with Kay Kay, who plays the Mumbai ACP Rakesh Maria. Though the latter has few dialogues to his credit in the movie, his acting is what speaks for him. Background score by the band Indian Ocean moves with the mood of the movie, and the soundtrack Bandeh at the end comes as almost the epilogue. Arey ruk ja re Bandeh… haunts you long after.
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