Black Friday

Released Feb 9, 2007

2h 51m

Action

Crime

Drama

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90%

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10 Reviews

92%

Audience Score

2,500+ Ratings

Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon (Pavan Malhotra) confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

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.

Aug 17, 2021

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

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

Rated: 4/4

Jan 23, 2019

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Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

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

Rated: 4.5/5

Feb 9, 2007

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Film Companion Staff

Film Companion

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.

Oct 27, 2020

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David Chute

L.A. Weekly

The underused Indian actor Kay Kay Menon is perfectly cast as a crisply correct detective keeping a tight lid on his seething anger in Black Friday, a rigorously naturalistic docudrama about a complex police investigation.

Feb 15, 2007

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Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

A potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions.

Feb 14, 2007

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Nancy D

It's overwhelmingly dark. It's frighteningly real. It's daringly gritty and graphic. this is a very hard film to watch in places (such as the scene where the police use a hammer on one suspect's hand) but is also very well-made and unflinching. And, unlike a typical Bollywood film, it lacks the song and dance numbers and just concentrates on telling the story.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Shiven K

I wish I could give it more than five stars. Black Friday without a doubt is my personal favorite film of all time. It's a harrowing and absolutely brutal examination of massacres full of suspense. If this isn't in the top 10 greatest films when the world ends I wouldn't know what to do.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Rosana B

Muito bom, baseado no livro de mesmo nome, relata, com detalhes, todos só eventos das 12 explosões e seu posterior desfecho com investigações, autorias, financiamento, motivação e afins... Um excelente filme baseado em fatos reais, o relato com um Marco histórico temporal crescente ajuda, e o excesso de personagens/suspeitos dificulta um pouco a compreensão, uma pena eu não ter conseguido concluí-lo pois saiu da grade da Netflix...

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/03/22

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Audience Member

This is a striking piece of cinema. Not only it delivers on all counts, its meaty and entertaining. It is fun, gripping, compelling and uniquely performative cinema. I would suggest you watch it at any cost. Anurag's first is Anurag's best.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Gritty, vivid and took me by surprise. Excellent.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

85% Watched this on 9/6/16 A hard hitting account on a really shameful incident where radical forces effectively manipulated ignorant, illiterate masses into butchering each other. Made at a small budget, but never cheap looking, Kashyap's direction adds flare to this and though it sligtly falls towards the end, the shear devastating true story that helps it retain its importance.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Anurag Kashyap

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Kay Kay Menon

Rakesh

Aditya Shrivatsava

Badshah Khan

Pavan Malhotra

Tiger Memon

Dibyendu Bhattacharya

Yeda Yakub

Kishore Kadam

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Synopsis

Under torture, Indian gangster Tiger Memon (Pavan Malhotra) confesses to his involvement in a plot to set off explosives throughout Bombay. The police choose not to believe him, however, and bombs tear through the city that Friday, wreaking havoc and polarizing the citizens of Bombay. Through a series of interviews, DCP Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) comes closer to discovering who the leader of the conspiracy is, but it soon becomes clear that a foreign power must be involved.

Director: Anurag Kashyap
Screenwriter: Anurag Kashyap
Distributor: Adlabs Films
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 9, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 4, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $33.0K
Runtime: 2h 51m