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Journalist, Columnist. Film Critic. Author of 'Irrfan : A Life In Movies', and '50 Films That Changed Bollywood 1995-2015' https://t.co/1ivJOoWvbg…

Aug 13, 2020, 5 tweets

If you haven’t, then this is the perfect time to see #BlackFriday, about a sequence of events which changed India.

#BlackFriday was also Bollywood’s first full-fledged feature done docu-style. The fact that it finally came out, despite its subject and the long struggle with the CBFC, says a lot about the times the film was made, and released in.

Such an array of fine performances : Kay Kay, Pavan Malhotra, and the most affecting, from Aditya Srivastava. The film was urgent and visceral, unflinching in its portrayal of the lead-up to the ‘93 Bombay riots, and after

It also has Kishor Kadam, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Imtiaz Ali ( yes, the very one) and one of the coolest cop-n-criminal chases ever, with an equally cool Danny Boyle connection.

It took a SC verdict for the film to release, which broke the jinx for Anurag Kashyap, who was amongst the bunch of filmmakers who helped change the landscape of Bollywood

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