Black Friday | Has It Aged Well? ft.

This week on 'Has It Aged Well?' you can hear the episode Abbas and Urjita recorded live at India Pod Day 2023. Our guest was legendary crime writer S. Hussain Zaidi and the film we discussed was Anurag Kashyap's 2006 cult classic 'Black Friday' adapted from Zaidi's first book of the same name. Topics discussed include: When Zaidi was approached for the adaptation?, the authenticity of the film, whether an adaptation affects his writing style, what it takes to be a crime journalist, how to interview criminals and get them to be vulnerable, his views on the many number of on screen adaptations that have taken place and much more.
You can order 'Black Friday', the book here: amzn.to/3S8K6VK
You can order 'Mafia Queens of Mumbai' here; bit.ly/492jgES
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[@fretted4life]

Arguably one of Anurag's best work. Such a shame that it was banned for years.

[@satti4010]

My favorite book is "Headley and I" on 26/11 by Hussain Zaidi..and my favorite movie haa to be black friday. Thank you sir.

[@HM0092]

It will be relevant even after 30 40 years. It's rewatching value is great. Peak acting peak direction. Great narration from aditya srivastava. Peak bgm and ruk ja re bande song. Also bold to keep real names. It's in the league of GOW. It's a crime to keep this movie for has it aged well.

[@gursimransidhu861]

It’s not mainly aged well episode! It’s more of interview with author

[@anupdeshpande5810]

Exactly. This is the first time I watched this series' episode. Don't think I ll watch rest of them

[@adityashah4708]

27:13 one of the reasons is also that truth is stranger than fiction, it's true for the crime world as well.

[@Wajih_Ahmed]

21:39 Chills

[@diwakarchaube9051]

Anurag's best work and India's one of the fine example of cinema too.

[@divesh613]

Time Stamo 25.15 he is talking about Sanjay Gupta( Director Shhotout at wadala and Lokhandwala)

[@bikepackingindia2310]

After Black Friday and dongri to Dubai i was excited to see this one. Total disappointment that movie was.

[@kaushiksivaraman5203]

It was a overall good episode, you could have gone a bit deeper but you both did good with the time and the place that you had . You should do more episodes like this

[@jitkr1489]

ek aparadh karti hai na Urjuta.. standup!

[@aamiransari5995]

Won't be watching this episode as I literally saw this live.

[@aamirkhan943]

Worst episode of Has It Aged Well. The guest made it mostly about himself and the hosts gave up on trying to make it about the film. This film deserved way better. If you really care about films, you need to re-do this one with another guest.

[@saketlad]

Yep, it's basically an interview!

[@triptisharma5121]

it was more like an interview not a podcast which is fine, the man deserves that.