On 12 March 1993, a series of 12 bomb blasts took place in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Some portions were also shot at the Dharavi slums. Anurag Kashyap as ISI agent at landing boat.Savi Sidhu as Commissioner Amarjit Singh Samra.Ramdas Jadhav as Inspector Srirang Nadgouda.Murali Sharma as Inspector Virendra Vani aka VV Vani.Zakir Hussain as Inspector Nandakumar Chaugule.In a candid Newstrack interview on national television, Yaqub states that it was Tiger and his underworld associates who orchestrated the conspiracy. On 5 August 1994, Tiger's brother, Yaqub Memon, willingly turns himself in to the authorities. The Central Bureau of Investigation takes over the case.
On 4 November 1993, the police file a charge sheet against 189 accused. Tired of being let down by his own people, and without a place to hide, Badshah Khan realises there is no justification for his acts and decides to become a police witness. To make matters worse, their passports seem to have been destroyed at the behest of Memon.ĭespite assurances to the contrary, the high command blatantly refuses any help once the bombings have occurred. Following the blast, accomplices to the crime are forced to lead a life of anonymity and secrecy as it becomes evident the Mumbai police have begun picking up the suspects one by one. Badshah Khan, one of the henchmen who had left Bombay and gone into hiding, is arrested by the police on. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Rakesh Maria, is put in charge of the case. This initiates a full-scale police inquiry. He is beaten until he provides whatever information he has about the bomb blasts. Memon suggests an attack on Bombay would send the strongest message of retaliation.Īsgar Muqadam, his secretary, is arrested on 14 March 1993. The persecution of Muslim minorities in the riots leads to a meeting of underworld leaders in Dubai who take it upon themselves to seek retribution. Tiger Memon is an underworld don whose office is burned during the Bombay riots. Investigators discover the bombs, made of RDX, were smuggled into the city with the aid of customs officials and the border police. The police dismiss his confession as bluff and three days later, a series of explosions take place in the city, leaving 257 dead and close to 1400 injured. On 9 March 1993, a small-time thug, Gul Mohammed, is detained at the Nav Pada police station in Bombay and confesses to a conspiracy underway to bomb major locations around the city. 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. 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. On 9 February 2007, after the verdict was announced, the Supreme Court of India allowed its release. Until judgement was delivered on the case, it could not be released. 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. Natarajan Subramaniam served as the director of photography, while Aarti Bajaj was its editor.īlack Friday premiered at the 2004 Locarno International Film Festival and was supposed to be released the same year in India. The film's soundtrack album and the background score were composed by the band Indian Ocean, while the lyrics were written by Piyush Mishra.
When Kashyap told him he felt there was a film to be made about the event, Bhattacharya gave it to him to direct. Kashyap then suggested to the director Aditya Bhattacharya that he make it into a film. Aaj Tak backed away from the project, and it was shelved.
Kashyap wrote the script in episodes for the six-part miniseries but later felt a feature film was more appropriate for the topic. 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. Produced by Arindam Mitra of Mid-Day, the film stars Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastava, Pavan Malhotra, Kishor Kadam and Zakir Hussain. 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. ₹8 crore (equivalent to ₹21 crore or US$2.6 million in 2020) īlack Friday is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language crime film written and directed by Anurag Kashyap. ₹6.5 crore (equivalent to ₹17 crore or US$2.1 million in 2020)
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