Black Friday (2004) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2004 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Black Friday is the story of the 1993 bomb blasts that took place in Mumbai. Based on a book by S. Hussain Zaidi, this docu-drama tries to recreate those events and the intense feelings that followed them. The film has Kay Kay Menon (as the Commissioner of Police), Aditya Shrivastava (as Badshah Khan), and Pawan Malhotra (as Tiger Memon), among the star cast.
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Shrivastava, Loveleen Mishra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Imtiaz Ali, Zakir Hussain, Pankaj Jha, Pratima Kazmi, Kishore Kadam, Gajraj Rao, Raja Choudhary, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Aliya Curmally, Asif Basra, Ragesh Asthana, Suresh Dubey, Arindam Mitra, Vijay Maurya | Director: Anurag Kashyap Music Director: Indian Ocean | Gulaal (2009) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2009 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama, Thriller Description Gulaal is something that is extremely relatable, especially for today's youth. Gulaal was claimed as Anurag Kashyap's angriest film and it indeed is. It explores the dynamics of royalty and democratic system. Sectionalism today has set everywhere in a big way and the film is the true reflection of where our nation stands today. The narrative follows the life of Dilip Singh (Raj Singh Chaudhary), who reaches Rajpur to study law. The meek, Dileep Singh (Raj Singh Chaudhary), is an idealistic man who gets caught in the whirlpool of student politics and much more, as he gets sucked into the world of Rananjay, Dukkey Bana, and an intense love story that has a disastrous end to Gulaal. On the whole the film contains certain like love, power, deceit, greed and politics.
Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Abhimanyu Singh, Deepak Dobriyal, Jesse Randhawa, Mahie Gill, Aditya Shrivastava, Piyush Mishra, Mukesh Bhatt, Raja Choudhary, Pankaj Jha | Director: Anurag Kashyap Music Director: Piyush Mishra | Ab Tak Chhappan (2004) Also Known As: So Far Fifty Six Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2004 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller Description Sadhu Agashe (Nana Patekar) began his career with the Mumbai police several years ago and was initially asked to work at a desk job, writing up First Information Reports, and never got to use his gun. Then he was promoted to the plain-clothes crime branch division, and that's when he stopped writing reports and started to use his gun. He heads a team of four outstanding officers, who obey him without question. When Police Commisisoner Pradhan (Mohan Agashe) retires, his position is taken up by M.I. Suchek (Jeeva), who dislikes Agashe. Soon, Agashe becomes a target of inner politics, his wife gets killed during a wedding ceremony, and he himself gets arrested by none other than his subordinate, Imitiaz Siddique, who has been asked to kill Agashe in a sting. The people participating in this killing are none other than Agashe's subordinates - the very ones he had trained to kill and obey orders without question.
Cast: Nana Patekar, Revathi, Nakul Vaid, Yashpal Sharma, Prasad Purandhare, Kunal Vijaykar, Jeeva, Mohan Agashe, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Helen, Anant Jog, Ravi Kale, Dinesh Lamba | Director: Shimit Amin Music Director: Salim-Sulaiman | Maqbool (2003) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2003 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Drama Description Jahangir Khan/Abbaji (Pankaj Kapoor) is the aging leader of a criminal gang. Nimmi (Tabu) is his mistress. Members of the gang include Maqbool (Irfan Khan), Kaka (Piyush Mishra) and his son Guddu (Ajay Gehi), and 2 cops Pandit and Purohit (Puri and Shah respectively). Maqbool and Nimmi love each other, but since Maqbool will not defy Abbaji openly, their affair is kept secret. Nimmi wishes to leave Abbaji and live with Maqbool, but realizes the futility of it while Abbaji is alive. So, she slowly but surely begins to put ideas in Maqbool's head...
Cast: Irfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Piyush Mishra, Masumi Makhija, Ajay Gehi, Shweta Menon, Daya Shankar Pandey, Vivek Mishra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Murli Sharma, Mohini Mathur, Deepak Dobriyal | Director: Vishal Bhardwaj Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | | Format: DVD Label: Eagle Catalog No: EDVDS 3588 DVD Region: All Region No Of Disks: 4 Subtitles: English Video: NTSC | | | | | | | | | | | |