Black Friday - Mumbai bomb blast revelations
14th Feb, 2007
Yesterday night I had been to watch BLACK FRIDAY, a hindi movie on Bombay Blasts of 12th March, 1993. The director Anurag Kashyap has done a commendable job in presenting an unbiased description of all the devastating incidents that occured during that period. I am compelled to rate this film over others like Farenheit 9/11, Oscar winning Crash, Munich, etc.
The movie tries to touch all the aspects of the psyche of people involved in the whole incident.
1. The conspirators and their motives
2. The people who executed the plan and their families
3. The police
4. The role of Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI and Rashtriya Swayamsevak sangh RSS
5. The innocent people who suffered due to the investigation
However, the film doesnt highlight the sufferings of the victims whose realtives were killed/injured in the blasts. It also did not give much footage to the role of media and I appreciate that. This was about the film. Watch the film to know the facts.
The film was so gripping that the audience was spellbound and astonished by the details of the whole chapter. I was shocked and ashamed of my ignorance of this whole incident. You ask me why? Here is my set of reasons: I have been born and brought up in Mumbai and I have always lived in and around mumbai through the past quarter century. I was in Mumbai when the riots happened. I was in Mumbai when the blasts shocked the city.... Still, I knew nothing about the whole incident, apart from the headlines that were served to me in my bed with the morning tea. My age must be 11 years then. I am thankful to the makers of this film and author S. Hussain Zaidi for exposing this unknown truth to the youth of India. I would even like to see an inclusion of these incidents in history textbooks of 8th grade. This film was completed in 2005, however due to a stay order by court this film was not released till 2007. The final verdict of the bomb blast case paved the way for the relaese of this film.
Another shameful aspect of the incident was the time-delay and inefficiency of Indian government to pass judgement over the whole case. It took 13 years to entangle a very simple case. If such facts were known within 6 months of the blast, how could the Indian judiciary explain such a long delay? At the end of the movie there were a few statements:
Bombay bomb blast was the longest criminal case in Indian judiciary
Out of 122 convicted, 100 were found guilty
Tiger Memon, Dawood Ibrahim and 26 others are still absconding
How could Indian government be negligent of this issue. How could a damned criminal like Tiger Memon still roam free somewhere in Pakistan or Dubai. I consider this as a utter failure of Indian foreign relations and diplomacy. Is Dawood Ibrahim more powerful than Indian democracy. If we link it to the Saddam-US analogy, we can consider that Dawood is more powerful and influential than Saddam and even US because India is a bigger democracy than US.
More info on the movie at IMDB
Yesterday night I had been to watch BLACK FRIDAY, a hindi movie on Bombay Blasts of 12th March, 1993. The director Anurag Kashyap has done a commendable job in presenting an unbiased description of all the devastating incidents that occured during that period. I am compelled to rate this film over others like Farenheit 9/11, Oscar winning Crash, Munich, etc.
The movie tries to touch all the aspects of the psyche of people involved in the whole incident.
1. The conspirators and their motives
2. The people who executed the plan and their families
3. The police
4. The role of Pakistani Intelligence Agency ISI and Rashtriya Swayamsevak sangh RSS
5. The innocent people who suffered due to the investigation
However, the film doesnt highlight the sufferings of the victims whose realtives were killed/injured in the blasts. It also did not give much footage to the role of media and I appreciate that. This was about the film. Watch the film to know the facts.
The film was so gripping that the audience was spellbound and astonished by the details of the whole chapter. I was shocked and ashamed of my ignorance of this whole incident. You ask me why? Here is my set of reasons: I have been born and brought up in Mumbai and I have always lived in and around mumbai through the past quarter century. I was in Mumbai when the riots happened. I was in Mumbai when the blasts shocked the city.... Still, I knew nothing about the whole incident, apart from the headlines that were served to me in my bed with the morning tea. My age must be 11 years then. I am thankful to the makers of this film and author S. Hussain Zaidi for exposing this unknown truth to the youth of India. I would even like to see an inclusion of these incidents in history textbooks of 8th grade. This film was completed in 2005, however due to a stay order by court this film was not released till 2007. The final verdict of the bomb blast case paved the way for the relaese of this film.
Another shameful aspect of the incident was the time-delay and inefficiency of Indian government to pass judgement over the whole case. It took 13 years to entangle a very simple case. If such facts were known within 6 months of the blast, how could the Indian judiciary explain such a long delay? At the end of the movie there were a few statements:
Bombay bomb blast was the longest criminal case in Indian judiciary
Out of 122 convicted, 100 were found guilty
Tiger Memon, Dawood Ibrahim and 26 others are still absconding
How could Indian government be negligent of this issue. How could a damned criminal like Tiger Memon still roam free somewhere in Pakistan or Dubai. I consider this as a utter failure of Indian foreign relations and diplomacy. Is Dawood Ibrahim more powerful than Indian democracy. If we link it to the Saddam-US analogy, we can consider that Dawood is more powerful and influential than Saddam and even US because India is a bigger democracy than US.
More info on the movie at IMDB
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