Black Friday

Normally i do not like dedicating my post on anything that is serious...but this time i must make an exception. Sreenath and I decided to catch a hindi movie yesterday coz we had no intention of sitting in class. So we were checking out the list of prospecting movies to waste our money over and finally we chose 'Black Friday'. It was the last day of screening of the movie and since we did hear good things about the movie, we thought we'll give it a shot. I must confess I have seen better movies...but this is a movie which reflects the truth in the way it should about something as politically volatile and sensitive as the '93 Mumbai bomb blasts. This is also the first movie i have seen since 'tHiNk!' was formed and i intend to do a small review of every movie i have seen.

The movie begins quite aptly with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi -"An eye for eye makes the whole world blind". And shows the bomb erupt as the story's prologue. From there on the director goes in great detail depicting the total destruction of the bombs,the turmoil of the perpetrators, real-life footage and the ruthlessness of the Mumbai police.When i found out that the book was written by Hussain Zaidi, i thought this will give a very prejudiced view of the event...making us feel that this was bound to happen and deservedly so. But to my surprise it was a very sincere and truthful projection of the ghastly event were no one is solely responsible, no one is innocent. My favourite dialogue was when Kay Kay Menon ( who gave a cool performance...but this was never supposd to be character driven flick) whips to a perpetrator "Is baar Allah humare saath hain"(This time Allah is with us).

Friends this is a good movie..no doubts about that. If i were a critic i would give it 3.5 /5 . A sterling effort by Anurag Kashyap in his first directorial venture and also a big hand to Hussain Zaidi to what would certainly be a great book....