Black Friday

A careful, consistent and detailed procedural reconstruction of the real events that shook Mumbai in 1993, when a group of Muslims organized a series of bombings in the city center. The film begins with the explosions themselves and is then framed by police investigations and their pursuit of the perpetrators hiding throughout India and abroad. With each individual caught, another piece is revealed in the massive conspiracy jigsaw puzzle, and the film mixes events before the attacks with events after the attacks. Unfortunately, there are about three dozen important characters in the film and it is not within our powers to remember them all. Because of this (and because of about a million sub-plots), the film breaks into an incredibly complicated story of epic proportions, which must have been incredibly difficult to shoot. Director Anurag Kashyap is incredibly expressive and progressive and is an excellent craftsman when it comes to storytelling, but he still has a long way to go. (07.07.2014)