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Description : At the start of the film (March 9, 1993), Gul Mohammed, a small time thug, during his chance-arrest confesses that there is a conspiracy underway to bomb major locations around the city at Nav Pada police station, Bombay. But the police dismisses his confession, and three days later, Bombay is torn apart by a series of explosions leaving 257 dead, and close to 1400 injured. Investigators discover that the bombs were made of RDX, smuggled into the city with the aid of customs officials and the border police. In turn, the film traces the motive for the blasts to the Bombay Riots, which is the term used to describe the bloody warring between the Hindu and Muslim communities in the period from December 1992 to January 1993, which left over 1500 people, mostly Muslims, dead. The 'Bombay Riots' was an unprecedented outburst of violence and abuse, resulting in enormous emotional trauma and property loss. Tiger Memon (Pawan Malhotra) is an underworld don whose office is burnt to cinders during the riots. The suffering of the Muslim minorities in the riots incites a meeting of underworld leaders in Dubai, who then take it on themselves to seek retribution. Tiger Bhai (as Tiger Memon is called) one of the chief inflamed suggests an attack on Bombay as the strongest message of retaliation, thus leading to Black Friday, March 12, 1993.
Asgar Muqadam, Tiger Memon's secretary is arrested on March 14, 1993. He is beaten till he gives all the information he knows about the bomb blasts, and that intiates a full police inquiry. Deputy Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria (currently Inspector General of the Maharashtra Police) is put in charge of the case. The next piece in the puzzle is the arrest of Badshah Khan (Aditya Shrivastava), one of the henchmen who had left Bombay and gone into hiding but on May 10, 1993 is eventually worn out by the running and is found by the police.
Badshah Khan realizes that there is no justification for his acts, and decides to become a police witness. On November 4, 1993, the police file a charge sheet against 189 accused. The Central Bureau of Intelligence takes over the case.
Then on August 5, 1994, Tiger's brother, Yaqub Memon, willingly turns himself in to the authorities. In a candid Newstrack interview on national television Yaqub states that it was Tiger and his underworld associates who orchestrated the conspiracy. And Tiger Memon has now disappeared.
See: S. Hussain Zaidi - Black Friday - The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts, Penguin Books India (2002), ISBN 0-14-302821-9