Writer-director Anurag Kashyap dramatizes the aftermath of the Bombay bombings of March 12, 1993, in this nonmusical thriller that owes more to films like MUNICH (2005) than mainstream Indian commercial spectaculars. Adapted from crime reporter S. Hussain Zaidi's book about the investigation, it suggests that though the bombers were Muslim and claimed they were avenging the brutal violence of the 1992/1993 Bombay riots, calculating underworld crime lords were as much to blame as religious fervor.
March 9, 1993: Indian police interrogate a prisoner about recent riots triggered by the destruction of Babri mosque by a Hindu mob; the riots destroyed Muslim-owned...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
143 mins