Bollywood Movies that were Banned

Black Friday (2004)

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Star Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Imtiaz Ali, Zakir Hussain

Anurag kashyap does have a way with the Censor Board. This was the second movie that he made which was met with opposition from the authorities. But Black Friday has a luckier fate than his directorial venture Paanch. Black Friday was releases on February 9, 2007 two years after it was made.

The movie is based on the book “Black Friday – The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts” by S Hussain Zaidi. The court in 2004 said that the movie would only be released after the trials in the 93 Bomb Blasts case was over.

The movie showed the events that happened during the bomb blast and the chaos and emotional turmoil that followed the incident. The movie was well appreciated abroad and it also went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.