The Film: Company
Score: 3/5
Starring: Ajay Devgan, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi, Mohanlal, Antara Mali, Seema Biswas, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Boney Kapoor
Music: Sandeep Chowta
Lyrics: Nitin Raikwar, Prasun Joshi & Praveen Bharadwaj

Ram Gopal Verma once again proves that he is the finest Indian director we have. While many kept saying that this is yet another Satya. Must correct them that this movie is much better than Satya and the finest Ramu has directed. Brilliantly made as good or even better than Holywood movies.

The way they show the chase in the slum area of Mumbai and then once again in Kenya is top class. Ramu often uses mug shotsm, very close shots of the stars to portray the true expressions and emotions on their face. Also, he uses several times grainy images like one would see on the screen of a handy cam camera. All this shows that this man is trying to different and he sure succeeds. But it is up to the crowd who are still addicts of masala flicks where they want comedy, sex, action, drama, and emotions all in a movie. For the people who expect all genres in one film – this movie is definitely not for the soft hearted!

Except for the accident scene shown on the Mumbai highway Ramu fails to make much mistakes.

Cruel, brooding and wicked this movie actually makes you feel that you are seeing real characters on the scene.

The film's characters communicate primarily through their cellular phones given the physical distances that separat them. They never touch each other or make body contact except to shake hands occasionally. They grapple with moral and emotional disjunctions at every step. It is the phone which does all the bad deeds and in minutes you see dead bodies on the screen.

The movie kick starts with the Urmilla item number which is like the desi version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” meet Prodigy’s “Fire starter.” Very well shot the only colours you see in this video is Orange and Black.

Company is about a gang headed by the cool and cruel Malik Bhai (Ajay Devgan).

Malik does not talk like “Kya rey bhidu tapkaney ka hey!” Malik actually portrays a real don – they never talk like they show in the movies. In fact it is the movie who have invented such kind of styles to entertain people. Malik happens to meet Chandu (Vivek Oberoi), spots his instinct for survival and recruits him as an accomplice.

Chandu becomes Malik Bhai’s right hand man and that is not liked by one of the close gang members.

The climax of the movie changes so fast, often defying you own instincts. In one of the scenes, you will feel Chandu will start bashing the police inspector but instead he clicks his pistol and he is on the road for more encounters.

With cops on their trail, they escape to Hong Kong, from where the Company operates on cell phones and they have the entire Mumbai underworld under their control.

Due to some misunderstanding Chandu feels that Malik no longer needs his helps and has a heated argument with him and leaves Hong Kong. No, Malik and Chandu become the biggest rivals and start hating each other. Chandu along with his wife (Antara Mali) to Nairobi. Kenya from where he starts operating and strengthens his gang in Mumbai.

Top cop from Mumbai, Srinivasan (Mohanlal) is a master mid who knows how to play the game. He looks like a professor and talks like a cool man. Check out the scene where he calls Malik and his gang to meet him, he handles them like a mother would handle a crying baby!

In the movie Malik dies so does Antara Malik.

As for the performances, this movie belongs to Ajay and Vivek. Wonder what he was doing in movies like Raju Chacha, Devgan rocks in this movie. Vivek Oberoi looks like a veteran in the movie, you feel as if this actor has been acting for donkey years.

Kerala Superstar Mohanlal who has problem speaking Hindi actually has some of the best Hindi one-liners in the film! He underplays his part to perfection, penetrating deep into the heart of the moral and professional questions he must answer for his own sake as well as for the sake of the society he is enjoined to protect.

Manisha Koirala, Antara Mali and Seema Biswas (Chandu’s mom) do good justice to their characters.

Even other characters with smaller roles do justice.

The movie has lot of typical Bombay slang though there are no bad words used in this movie. The language could be deterrent for making this movie acceptable to audiences across India and also abroad. It is like this American Desi was a super hit in America but for a desi in India, he may not relate to the movie so well like the desi’s in North America would do.

But overall the movie is brilliant and we definitely recommend this movie. The movie might not be a craze at the box office but it will certainly liked by people who are sick of those shitty Bolly flicks and the ones who expect Bollywood to produce quality movies.