Cinema has come of age and how! A film that had been banned for over 2 years now, based on the catastrophic bomb blasts in Bombay city in 1993 has finally seen the light of day. The film’s deep and meaningful intent to can most of the conspiracy and its effect resulting in the blast is rather devastating to watch.

The film throws light on what conspired where, when, how between who and why that led to the Bombay blasts. The film starts out with the stock exchange blast itself followed by the rest of them one after the other. The investigation and unfolding of the people involved is what Kashyap narrates through the rest of the film.

The film is truly hard hitting. Performances are all convincing and not exaggerated. Pawan Malhotra playing the character of Tiger Memon gives an exceptional performance. Kay Kay Menon also plays his part with just the right amount of composure as the cop.

The film also concentrates generously on another aspect of terrorism, which is the doomed fate of the youth that are wrongly influenced by others to cause mayhem. They are literally shown to be nothing more than pawns at the mercy of those sitting in Dubai calling the shots. It is astonishing on how well organized a crime the 1993 blasts were that was unfortunately carried out successfully through the planning of the ISI and Dawood Ibrahim.

But at the end of the day one does tend to think that even though the film is brilliantly made and is clear in it’s intent to expose those responsible, was there a valid reason for it to have been banned for the last two years? Well…that will actually vary according to each person’s personal opinion.

With much hype over the film’s delayed release Black Friday should see itself getting a decent opening, but then again this film was never about the commerce now was it?
Courtesy: Eros