One of my all time favorites.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The movie is about blasts in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1993. It is about how and why they were carried out. It also puts light on the criminals involved and how justice was obtained.I would like to talk about other factors that came to my mind while watching the movie.Consider love of people belonging to Islam. It is great. During the month of Ramzan (18+1+13+26+1+14) it can be seen in their fasting. Only because of few of them going along the wrong path entire community should not be questioned. When I turned to Atheism I felt most appropriate religion to be that of Islam. I mean somebody coming into dreams and all that. Today I am again not an atheist, I feel what we are presented is stretched a lot in religious texts. A movie came 'Exodus: Gods and kings' where events are drawn the way how they could have been in reality (not stretched).It is really commendable Anurag Kashyap brings this sort of cinema to see for general public.Consider the heinous crime of rape, I don't understand how it is possible to have sex with someone when they are not psychologically involved. Thus I conclude it is more of an animal behavior rather than human. People like me cannot do it. I don't understand how those criminals who do it are built psychologically.In the movie I liked how a True Muslim decides to become a witness and helps in police proceedings.The other thing I liked is that the movie is based on writings of a writer who is Muslim.

If I would be in jury, I would have given all major awards to this superbly created gem.its beyond award actually.i started to watch this movie in 2008 first, then at least once in 5 or 6 months I watched it, again n again alone or with friends n whom I told or requested to watch n feel this movie.i changed mobile , computer, now tablet, but I restored this single movie with me.i challenge that no business minded men will like this movie, because they think by mind n money, this film is for whom who has heart which beats for human and can feel all untold story and feelings of poor, minors,and each and every person in pain n trouble. Hope I could work with Anurag kashyap with my many stories which would certainly change the film making style and Indian cinema will be well watched n discussed in all over the world not only in UK, USA n some cis countries n not only by NRIs.thanks for this movie. Waiting for my show.....

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.A message of Mahatma Gandhi, the line that begins the movie is all about the very essence of it. As per records, it's a 2004 film but it is sad to know that the release of this was delayed till Feb 9th 2007. Such is our censor board and government that was afraid of releasing a film that takes names of all involved in 1993 Bombay (now Mumbai) Blasts.Bravo Anurag Kashyap for directing this uncompromisingly with a vision that is so very rare in an industry like us. It's surely the most courageous attempt to make a film on an account of a real crime happened in 1993. More kudos to Hussain Zaidi, the original writer of the book who wrote actual facts and presenting reason for each doing of a character.The film is about investigation's done by Mumbai Cop Rakesh Maria (Kay Kay Menon) that unravels the Mumbai blasts plot setup by the dastardly un human Tiger Memon (Pawan Malhotra). Everything about the film is purely raw and makes you not audience but a participant of the activities happening on screen, they make you feel as a bystander on a blast as a silent observer of an investigation.Everything is right about this movie, the emotions portrayed by the accused Asgar Muqadam or Badshah Khan or those by inspector Dangle or MN Singh everyone brought life to the character they played.Anurag, the director captured every emotion be it trauma or a feeling of guilt or even of triumph everything was brought out well. The screenplay goes so very intelligently taking you through the whole incidents and the cinematography and art direction transform you to an era that you will believe is Bombay of 1993 where there were no mobile phones, no communication channels as email. And yet, so much was to be communicated in so little time from dubai to Pakistan to India's bombay.The best scene for me was Dawood's entry. It lasts hardly a minute but the impact it made was terrific.The music, oh my god he used it so very effectively be it a Bharam Bhaap Ke or a Bande ( a subtle message oriented philosophical song for end credits) or the whole background music, just beautiful may be the right word.The monochromatic red interrogation scenes make you feel eery and present an insight to the minds of all those doing it. All are great dialogues and apt ones but the most impact making one comes from Kay Kay when he describes that the culprits are actually victims.The editing had to be sharper coz at 2 hours and 40 minutes, the viewer may tend to slip off but this drama held me so very tight that I watched it for 3rd time without moving elsewhere. Be it a theatre or my computer, it just makes me sit and watch. This is how a gripping drama should be told.I dare say, in last decade, I have not seen a movie more raw, more realistic and more dramatic than this.When I first saw this film on first day in Fame Theatre in Pune, I remember that hardly 10 people would have seen this. Such is our appreciation for a movie that's easily one of the best made films. Having said that, so be it as long as there are movie goers who are passionate in watching films, this shall be remembered.I rate this 5/5 and give it best film made from 2000-2010. How many ever may come and go. This shall remain in memory for a long time, if seen once. This is the kind of film we should be nominating for every foreign award including Oscars. Sadly, our government has a different view on such films that are straight telling and bold.Thanks all for making it the film it stands today and I will revisit this again later.

It saddens me that posters on this thread have the need to brand this as a 'bollywood' movie. the brilliance that is ' black Friday' is so far,far,far removed and so many million times better than any of the dross that conventional ' bollywood' could ever even HOPE to produce makes 'bollywood' a throughly inappropriate branding for ' black Friday'.for me, 'black Friday' is paving the way for what Indian cinema *should* be doing more of....that is, challenging it's audience and offering some intellectual stimulation.I realise that the Indian cinema public's demand is overwhelmingly for ' boy meets girl, boys long lost brother/best friend also loves the same girl, they have a fight, then they realise they are brothers and engage in a 30 minute dance recital', type of bullshit, but Indians are becoming more sophisticated and I for one cannot wait for the more serious and discerning productions to come from India that truly challenges the mind and senses.'Black Friday' in this regards represents a HUGE turning point for Indian cinema.don't miss it..it's a must see movie on so many levels.