Black Friday

Anurag Kashyap's powerful recreation of the events that led up to the Bombay blasts in 1993, banned initially and then released, remains one of the most daring docu-dramas of Hindi cinema.

An audacious, daring and explosive piece of cinema. Watch the film and listen to the soundtrack.

Black Friday is a moving and exhausting work of angry humanism.

A fact-based procedural whose drama gets lost amid its analytical detail.

A superb and devastating piece of cinema that with justification can be compared favorably to Gillo Pontocorvo's classic The Battle of Algiers in its dispassionate yet sweeping journalistic inquiry into cataclysmic social and political events.

Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday is more of a feeling - singularly shocking, stirring, cataclysmic, yet journalistic and depressingly objective, and one of the great achievements in Indian cinema.

The underused Indian actor Kay Kay Menon is perfectly cast as a crisply correct detective keeping a tight lid on his seething anger in Black Friday, a rigorously naturalistic docudrama about a complex police investigation.

A potent reminder that Indian filmmaking isn't limited to Bollywood super-productions.

In the aftermath of 9/11, its assertion that religious terrorism is about more than simply faith is food for thought.

There's a lot of material covered in the film and its structure ... requires an audience to pay careful and close attention. But [director Anurag] Kashyap keeps the action moving and the overall movie turns out to be engrossing.