Zaidi has covered the Mumbai mafia for several decades . His 2002 book '' Black Friday '' detailed the 1993 Mumbai bombings , an attack comprising 13 explosions that killed 250 people . The book was adapted two years later , in 2004 , into a film by Anurag Kashyap also titled '' Black Friday '' . The film was so controversial that the Indian Censor Board did not allow it to be released in India for three years and was finally released on 9 February 2007 after the Supreme Court of India allowed it following the verdict in the '93 Bombay blast case was delivered by TADA court . In '' Dongri to Dubai : Six Decades of the Mumbai Mafia '' , a historical account of the Mumbai mafia , Zaidi conducted an interview with crime boss Dawood Ibrahim , who is suspected of having orchestrated the bombings . The book was adapted into a film , '' Shootout at Wadala '' by Sanjay Gupta
1993 Mumbai bombings
1993 Bombay bombings
Hussain Zaidi