Black Friday to be released on Feb 9

Black Friday to be released on Feb 9

Posted at Wednesday, 07 February 2007 10:02 IST
Mumbai, Feb 7: Director Anurag Kashyap's 'Black Friday', which is based on 1993 Mumbai serial bombings, will be released on February 9, Sahara Samay sources said.

The film's release was stayed due to legal worries that it could influence a 13-year-old trial into the Mumbai serial blasts.

That trial ended in September and an anti-terrorism court found 100 people, mostly Muslims, guilty. Another 23 defendants were acquitted.

Produced by Arindam Mitra, the film features Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra and Aditya Srivastava playing Inspector Rakesh Maria, Tiger Memon and police informer 'Badshah Khan' respectively.

"As a filmmaker I was compelled to capture this cataclysmic event that changed hundreds of lives," the film's director," Anurag Kashyap said.

"It's a dispassionate anatomy of terror and the police investigations. The camera is always at a distance," he said.

Black Friday, which opens in India on Feb 9, is based on a book by the same name and uses real names and places - the main reason why its release was delayed in 2005.