Black Friday (2004)
Black Friday (2004)
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Kay Kay Menon
Rakesh Maria
Pavan Malhotra
Tiger Memon
Aditya Srivastava
Badshah Khan
Pavan Malhotra
Mushtaq 'Tiger' Memon
Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Yeda Yakub
Kishore Kadam
Dangle
Gajraj Rao
Dawood Phanse
Zakir Hussain
Nand Kumar Chougale
Imtiaz Ali
Yakub Memon
Pankaj Jha
Anwar Theba
Somesh Agarwal
Abdul Rashid
Pratima Kazmi
Mrs. Khan, Badshah's Mother
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Asgar Mukadam
Vijay Maurya
Dawood Ibrahim
Ragesh Asthana
Mohammad Dossa
Raj Singh Chaudhary
Mushtaq Tarani
Ashraf Ul Haq
Bashir Khan
Piyush Mishra
Writer
Murali Sharma
Inspector Virendra Vani
Anil Yadav
Dawood Jatt's Gangster
Sujata Sehgal
Mafeesa Khan
Pranay Narayan
Imtiaz Gawate
Prakash Jais
Farooq Pawle
Goutam Maitra
Nasir Deklu
Sharad Ponkshe
DCP Arup Patnaik
Aliya Curmally
Shabana Memon
Savi Sidhu
Commissioner Amarjit Singh Samra
Asif Basra
Shanawaz Qureshi
Anurag Kashyap
ISI agent at landing point / Screenplay / Director
Hussain Zaidi
Book
Indian Ocean
Music
Aarti Bajaj
Editor
Media.
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Release DateAugust 13, 2004
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 42m
Content RatingR
Budget$700,000
Box Office$1,100,000
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Black Friday is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language crime film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. Based on Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, a book by Hussain Zaidi about the 1993 Bombay bombings, it chronicles the events that led to the blasts and the subsequent police investigation. Produced by Arindam Mitra of Mid-Day, the film stars Pawan Malhotra, Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Kishor Kadam and Zakir Hussain.
Mitra, director of operations for Mid Day, approached Kashyap with the book and wanted him to write a television series based on it for the Aaj Tak TV news channel. Kashyap wrote the script in episodes for the six-part miniseries but later felt a feature film was more appropriate for the topic. Aaj Tak backed away from the project, and it was shelved. Kashyap then suggested to the director Aditya Bhattacharya that he make it into a film. When Kashyap told him he felt there was a film to be made about the event, Bhattacharya gave it to him to direct. The film's soundtrack album and the background score were composed by the band Indian Ocean, while the lyrics were written by Piyush Mishra. Natarajan Subramaniam served as the director of photography, while Aarti Bajaj was its editor.
Black Friday premiered at the 2004 Locarno International Film Festival and was supposed to be released the same year in India. However, after a petition filed by a group accused of the 1993 bomb blasts challenging the film's release, the Bombay High Court issued a stay. Until judgement was delivered on the case, it could not be released. On 9 February 2007, after the verdict was announced, the Supreme Court of India allowed its release. The film received critical acclaim. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and was a nominee for the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival. Made on a production budget of ₹6.5 crore (US$810,000), it grossed a total of ₹8 crore (US$1.0 million) at the box office.