Ever since muslim terrorists have killed his brother (Nitesh
Upadhyaya), Rajveer (Ashwyn Anand) has sworn to have his revenge on all
muslims in India, and to this end, he has formed a group with others who
have lost their loved ones in terrorist attacks, and they now plan an
attack on Mumbai's muslim population - including women and children. Their
grief and hatred blinds them to the fact that they have become just like
the terrorists that have taken their loved ones, worse even because they
of all people should know better than to kill innocent people. The attack
goes horribly wrong when some of the members of the group find their
conscience kicking in and turn on the others, and everybody is killed ...
everybody but Rajveer who as the head of the group has kept out of the
line of fire ... but when he returns home to his loving wife (Agnijita
Roy), who only now finds out what her husband does in his spare time and
confronts him with his many errors, things get out of hand ... A
short low budget political thriller that manages to say more about
terrorism and the ideology that comes with it in a mere 19 minutesm than
many feature films do in their entire running times. Basically, by making
the terrorists not "the others" as in way too many terrorist
movies but the very people we are supposed to identify with and trying to
understand their anger before chronicling their errors (and there are
many), this is finally a film that identifies terror not as a religious or
political or ideological or racial thing but simply the wrong thing to do,
basically as revenge for revenge's sake. But that said, Blood Friday
is not so much a message movie but contains enough action and suspense to
keep the audience glued to their chairs throughout. Extremely
interesting, really!
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