Friday, February 09, sees the release of BLACK FRIDAY which is finally hitting the marquee. More than the hard hitting subject of the film and its treatment by Anurag Kashyap, which has been heard and talked about a lot in last couple of years, the film is also notable for another important factor – Performances by the lead male actors in the film!
Kay Kay Menon, Pawan Malhotra and Aditya Shrivastava – These are the three men who keep the film running on their able shoulders and make sure that their flawless performances make an epic like BLACK FRIDAY a worthwhile experience. In the industry for long and having established them as the actors of substance, the three have a rich experience behind them which made Anurag choose them as the prime protagonist.
Kay Kay Menon plays investigating officer Rakesh Maria, who was the man in charge who along with his team went all around Mumbai while locking up suspects after the Mumbai blasts.
Pawan Malhotra plays Tiger Memon, the man who had a criminal record of being a smuggler and was a resident of Mahim, Bombay.
Aditya Srivastava is Badshah Khan, who was a part of the entire conspiracy and had gone into a hiding after the blasts. Later his run from the police came to an end as he got arrested at his village in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh on May 10, 1993. On questioning, he revealed that the bombing was carried out as a revenge for the atrocities suffered by the Muslim minority community during the December 1992 and January 1993 Bombay riots.
