Black Friday

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

After years of making movies that heads on ran into controversies one after the other, Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday finally saw light of the day and also managed to run (successfully at that) for weeks at movie halls across the nation. Got to watch the flick today after weeks of wait and it was well worth the wait to say the least.

For the uninitiated the movie is aptly named(and colored) after the serial blasts that rocked Bombay on 12th March 1993 and takes a 360 degree view of the same. This ain't a movie for the week at heart and definitely not for those who want to take a tour of fairy tale cinema. It's a gory, hard-hitting, haunting and extremely veridical piece of cinema narrated chapter wise.

The cinematography, the acting, the screenplay, all top-notch and yes, they did push the envelope. Right down from mixing scenes across various time spans flawlessly, to using red filter for some hard interrogation scenes, to soul stirring background score by Indian Ocean the movie has it all. Ten minutes in the movie and you'll get why was the censor board had apprehensions about clearing the movie. Unlike Omkara, Black Friday isn't inundated with foul language but has ample usage of the C word and for a change people neither laugh nor whistle every time it is uttered.Apart from some rare exceptions nothing has been toned down to make things less unsettling.

The best part about the movie is that it not preachy or has a happy ending in which people of different religions live happily ever after. It enters the world as it was, peeks for an unbiased look and leaves it as it is. It just puts forwards the hard facts and lets the viewer do the thinking. I appreciate the director's courage for making a film like this which can easily tend to upset anyone (Hindus, Muslims, Govt & Police men alike) and admire his patience for not loosing hope and making it see a release.

Kudos to Black Friday, Tehelka et al

My Rating: 4.5/5
Imdb Rating:9.5/10(312 votes)

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