Brutal truths about communal conflicts in ‘Black Friday’


Veronica Lim Yi Hui

Anurag Kashyap’s (above) film “Black Friday” is an adaptation of former investigative journalist S. Hussain Zaidi’s book “Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts”. – AFP pic, October 24, 2022.

ON March 12, 1993, twelve successive explosions in Bombay shook India’s financial capital and turned the city’s most iconic buildings into rubble.  

Under the ruins, charred and deformed bodies lay, with cries of despair coming from the wounded.  


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