Company

Plot synopsis:
The story revolves around a young man named Chandu (Chandrakant Nagre) (played by Vivek Oberoi) joining the world of crime in the Mumbai underworld to "make it big" someday. Gradually he learns the tricks of the trade and increases the gang's earnings and profits. This leads to his affinity with Malik (Ajay Devgan), the leader of the gang. The film features one cold-blooded murder scene in which Malik and Chandu kill Saeed and his brother Anis in the rear seat of the car on a chilling rainy day. Thereafter Malik goes on a bloody rampage killing all his opponents, to take the reins of underworld in his hands. In this stage, Malik says a prominent dialogue "Sab ganda hai par dhanda hai yeh" (It's all dirty, but it's business).
His rival gang leader and colleague under Aslam's umbrella Sharma, who was in a meeting with police inspector Rathod, is killed off. Inspector Rathod, who once tortured and abused Chandu in jail in early days, is killed at Malik's permission. However, both come at loggerheads during the execution of a contract killing. Chandu stops the deliberate vehicle crash and falls from Malik's favor. The contract was from a politician who tries to use Malik's gang to eliminate a front-runner, a contender for Home Minister's post. The assassination (a staged truck-car collision) takes place in spite of Chandu's emotional misdemeanor since Malik, not relying on Chandu anymore, gives direct orders. The rift between Chandu and Malik widens due to misunderstandings. The Commissioner of Police, Sreenivasan IPS (Mohanlal) uses the rift to bring the mafia under control. Chandu and Malik end up becoming bitter enemies. After Chandu's retaliation of the assassination of his lifelong friend of one of lieutenants Warsi, two factions of Mumbai's once most powerful gang 'Company' went to a full-scale war.
Malik and Chandu killed as many members of each opponent gangs as possible. Sreenivasan, as the police chief of murders due to the war, became criticized greatly. But he and his men knew this war ultimately is shortening the to-do list of his department. Big numbers of button men and lieutenants from the gangs were being killed. The war results in an intense chase sequence shot in Kenya where Malik hires hitmen to kill Chandu. Chandu survives, though he is injured severely. Sreenivasan convinces Chandu to come back to Mumbai and fight his war with Malik by helping the police bring the mafia under control.
In the climax, Chandu kills the politician (the mastermind of the contract killing) in prison. At the same time, one of Chandu's aides, Koda Singh, who swore revenge to kill who went against his friend Chandu, shoots Malik point blank to death in Hong Kong. Chandu and Malik came to a truce but Chandu never withdrew his order to Koda to kill Malik. It's not confirmed that whether Chandu has forgotten to withdraw his orders or deliberately kept that on. After the assassination, Sreenivasan notified Chandu and Chandu became tremendously shocked at this news. Koda Singh was arrested by suspicion by Hong Kong police on that day. The ends shows Chandu spending the rest of his life in prison after being persuaded by the Police Commissioner to surrender.

Tags: cult, revenge, murder, violence

Review:
Ram Gopal Varma's latest offering 'Company' is probably one of the best Indian gangster films ever made (after Nayakan and Satya).
Company is the story of two friends - Malik (Ajay Devgan) and Chandu (Vivek Oberoi) - how they build up the 'Company' - Bombay underworld on a global scale and thus establish their supremacy.
He has proved once again that with a good story, an excellent cast and a lot of determination, one can make a memorable film and defy some of Bollywood's age old norms.
He is certainly one of the best Indian actors of all time and although his Hindi dialogue-delivery in Company is quite sloppy, he deserves a lot of praise for making a good effort.
His portrayal of an honest, determined cop trying to eradicate crime in Bombay (loosely based on Sivanandan, Joint Commissioner of Police, Mumbai) is very well executed.The film gives us an in-depth view into the dark world of Bombay Mafia, where only the fittest survive, and how their operations have spread on a global scale.
I've always found Indian movies to have some of the best cinematography in the world, but never seen one that looks like this.
all very modern cinematic tricks, and very well done here.The Company is in fact an organised crime syndicate, which our hero Chandu (Vivek Oberoi) joins at the start of the film.
When Malik makes a bid for power, the two of them have to handle the fallout from the quakes it makes through the criminal infrastructure.Chandu is a similar character to Satya (who is one of my favourite movie characters, and not just because he has the best beard in film), but a leaner meaner more ambitious kind of career criminal.
I am curious as to how successful Ram Gopal Varma is in India, as the two movies of his that I've seen have been challenging in a very subtle way.
Though based on the underworld both films are completely different as his own words put it company is above the underworld unlike satya.the direction, camera and background score are superb.
while Ajay Devgan lives the role to perfection, the Malayalam super star Mohanlal brings a breathe of fresh air by enacting the coolest and most realistic cop Hindi cinema has ever seen.
Ram Gopal Varma pulled off a very beautiful film, full with suspense and action, what every avid film fan secretly desires.Complete with actual facts and thrill it was a fun movie and could probably be compare to Godfather being the marvel that it was.
Terrific performances from Mohanlal, Ajay Devgan and Vivek Oberoi and a slick, stylish picture about the underworld make this movie a must see.
My personal favorite character in the movie is Mohanlal who plays a commissioner and I guess he is one of the coolest cops ever shown on Indian screen.I give Company 10 out of 10..
The dancing scenes are better integrated than in Satya, the movie is short for an indian movie but more efficient, the story is well written although the idea of mafia as a business has been seen many times, acting is wonderful.
But the best thing here is Varma's masterful visual style combining a dirty photography, an editing influenced by Hong Kong cinema, a documentary like visual style to create his own unique style and giving the movie a hot, heavy, dark, dirty atmosphere.
This is a stunning film, awesome story, acting and music makes this one of the most enjoyable movies i have ever seen - hindi or english.
'Company' ranks among one of Ram Gopal Verma's best and one of the best crime films of Indian cinema.
Seeing main review on IMDb was really disappointing,since i am a big fan of this site,in terms of reviews,But this review i am afraid is ridiculous in terms of comparison making.Comparing Goodfellas with this masterpiece is an insult to Ram Gopal Verma.I think,Indian reviewers or critics are in habit of seeing plagiarization of English movies and therefore they alway go on with Grandiloquence about the Movies that are made with exceptions.I have always been a great fan of RGV films.probably because i have watched English movies throughout my life and i hated the mainstream Genre of commercial films(the so-called Formula films) viz Karan Johar or Shah Rukh tag films.Amidst all this chaos,there emerged Ram Gopal Varma who had the guts and creativity and perhaps technical excellence to compete with Hollywood.The Film "COMPANY" is no exception.It wastes no time,the story is tight.Even the Song-Khallas with which Isha Koppikar gained popularity was a "PUN" or a double meaning song and provided some lightness to otherwise tight plot.The story of "COMPANY" draws inspiration from real Life(In case of GOOD FELLAS,the real life inspiration was not that accurate,Tony De Vito was called a psychic Killer and a Murderer,whose role in the robbery wasn't apparently well known and wasn't established,so as to say.Only Joe Pesci had made this guy more popular.The story as we all know is about feud between two gangsters,namely Malik and Chandu which reminds us of real life feud between Chhota Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim(which Mr. RGV promptly denies in having association with).The story spills out details with generation of thrill in every frame of the movie and manages to keep us up till the end.Narrations are excellent.Unlike Godfather,in which the first half you feel like sleeping,because of lack of any pacy background scores etc,the music keeps us interested till the very end.Ajay Devgun shows what an actor can do in a film without having to say much.He's given powerful(and yes,better than Marlon Brando) performance.Vivek A.K.A chandu Oberoi is magnificent in his first role.And no!
Ram Gopal Varma made the critically acclaimed and surprisingly commercially successful film that boosted and launched the careers of the actors, writers and music composers – Satya.
It depicts both the police and the gangsters and leaves for you to decide which is right of the two.Company is the story of two friends who turn foes through the length of the film.
The central character of the film, Malik, is a mafia leader who sets up the most successful crime organization in Mumbai by the name of Company.
This, in turn, proves Varma's unwillingness to add meaningless scenes to increase the running time and make the film dividable into two halves.Company has a bigger budget than Satya, and instead of using them for dance numbers in Egypt or Swiss, Varma gives a technically slick look to the film.
Company could arguably be the only Indian film where every actor of the ensemble cast gives his career best performance.
Ajay Devgun, Vivek Oberoi and Manisha Koirala are all very good, but Mohanlal effortlessly steals the show with his understated performance.
I am actually a person who hate Indian movies , not because they aren't directed good or the story isn't good ,it's because I watch English Movies , and as you all know there is no match of an English or Indian Movie,so ....After reading the above paragraph , It's hard to believe that I've seen this movie for more than 100 times I guess ,the reality that has been shown in this movie , and apart from that it's not like conventional Indian movies that describe only revolving around a female and how to get her and love her the whole life of yours ....they never bother to show the realities of life as we saw in COMPANY....The camera-work was simply outstanding , acting of AjayDevgan was all time great....well I believe that movie'd have been more successful if "Malik Bhai" had not died .
It focuses on how important inter-personal relationships are to the success of any business venture (here, the venture happens to be organised crime), and how the fraying of such relationships can be used effectively by law-enforcement agencies to bust gangs like the Company of the title.Performances: spot on.
I'm particularly interested to see how a film like this, which for all intents and purposes pushes the boundaries of 'Bollywood' film-making in a totally new direction with its absence of conventional songs, extremely moody lighting, heroes who really aren't that heroic, realism in dialogue, characterisation and setting, and very flashy, almost MTV-like editing, (all things that have been tried in the last two years in several Hindi films, but not together and not with so much skill)does at the Indian box office.
RGV returns to similar themes with his latest movie, Company, but this time brings a whole new style to his direction that makes the movie stand out even more from the Bollywood crowd.
RGV returns to similar themes with his latest movie, Company, but this time brings a whole new style to his direction that makes the movie stand out even more from the Bollywood crowd.
Though based on the underworld both films are completely different as his own words put it company is above the underworld unlike satya.
so heres how the plot goes Chandrakant "Chandu" (Vivek Oberoi) seeks with Malik (Ajay Devgan) to join his gang along with his girlfriend Saroja (Manisha Koirala).
Ram Gopal Varma is a man of extremes because he can sometimes make quite bad movies, as well as come up with masterpieces like Satya,Rangeela,Sarkar,Company etc..Company is probably the best directed RGV movie along with Satya, the film gives an exact, detailed and working of Mumbai underworld,as well as showing the relationship b/w dons Malik(Ajay) and Chandu(Vivek) loosely based on the relationship of Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Rajan and their rivalry.The film highlights the economics behind running an Indian mafia organization.
During murder / extortion scenes following, Ajay Devgan adds "profit happens -- like this, like this or like that".The story revolves around a young man named Chandu (played by Vivek Oberoi) joining the world of crime in the Mumbai underworld to "make it big" someday.
This leads to his affinity with Malik (played by Ajay Devgan) who is the leader of the gang.The film features one cold blooded murder scene wherein Malik and Chandu kill Saeed and his brother Anis in the rear seat of the car on a chilling rainy day.
The film ends, showing Chandu spending the rest of his life in prison after being persuaded by the Police Commissioner to surrender.Among the cast Ajay is great, Mohanlal is brilliant as usual, Vivek is excellent in this one, hard to believe this was his first movie, Manisha is good,Antara is alright for once,the rest of the cast is perfectly chosen and do their jobs efficiently.The movie is gritty and intense, the background score by Sandeep Chowta suits the mood of the movie perfectly, music by Sandeep Chowta is excellent with some very good songs like "Khallas","Sab Ganda Hai","Tumse Kitna Pyaar Hai"...This movie is among the best gangster movies ever made in Bollywood along with Satya,Vaastav,Parinda and Agneepath...Company is definitely one of the best DIRECTED movies made in Bollywood.A Salute to RGV for this one..
I would rank this movie as an extremely well crafted one and technically Varma's best film.
What it lacks is that raw power of Satya because of poor casting of the main hero in this film who looks more like a model ( which he is in real life) than a hungry wannabe gangster.
I hope RGV strikes a deal with one of the big names like Sony pictures and releases it to lovers of cinema the worldwide.Now, coming to the explanations part, I wanted to put in my words of support for Varma against some points raised by people.loud BGM: could be cuz there were some scenes in the movie which would have lessened the speed of the movie and these were, probably required.
a very difficult feat to achieve I guess..editing is far superior to traffic though ...Finally, I think Company is a much more difficult movie to make compared to Satya.
Even though the director says the work is fictional, everyone knows that the story is loosely based upon Mumbai dons Dawood Ibrahim and his friend (and later adversary) Chota Rajan.Story line revolves around Malik Bhai (Ajay Devgan), his right hand man Chandu (Vivek Oberoi) and Police boss Srinivas (South Indian superstar Mohanlal).
Vivek Oberoi as Chandu gets the best role as the most "human" of all characters.
COMPANY is the latest offering from India's most visionary and imaginative film maker Ram Gopal Varma.
ramu comes back in style after mast and jungle...returning to the streets of mumbai for a taut and incisive look at the mumbai underworld...unlike satya which focussed on one man's induction into the club of small time gangsters who rule the streets of mumbai...he chooses to take a macro-look at the running of the "company"..loosely based on the relationship of dawoood ibrahim and chota rajan...company makes for fairly compelling viewing...filmed like a docudrama....boasting of some crazy camera angles...
and a single song...company is still head and shoulders above most recent hindi movies....the story zips past in the first half...only to fall flat in the second...and some pasrts of tthe end like the killing of the chief minister is a little contrived....as someone who lived for 18 years in mumbai....i can attest to the authenticity of rgv's depiction...the cast is awesome..perhaps the best ensemble performance in a while....ajay devgan proves he can do cool, cunning and intense all at the same time, vivek oberoi makes an excellent and unusual debut and mohanlal, who imo is one of india's finest contemporary actors, makes it look effortless.
One of the few Bollywood films that manage to be both well made and entertaining and intriguing to look at.Of course it has flaws and some plot holes with goofs.The film is a story of the Mumbai Underworld.How the organization works and all that.And takes certain twists and turns and keeps things interesting with its slick atmosphere and impressive cinematography which sometimes feels borrowed from various Hollywood classics.Yes,I was entertained, or more so intrigued the way the director holds your attention despite the painful running time.And it was one of the more matured and smarter Bollywood films,with less focus on songs and dances.And more on its story.It's one of the few bollywood films that I enjoyed and surprised me.I started watching them from Lagaan and so on.Yet,it bears a lot of resemblance and similarities both in its looks and execution to many Hollywood Gangster masterpieces.For one ,it's always been Godfather.Bollywood owes a lot to that Landmark film.The performances are all terrific for one thing.Especially newcomer Vivek Oberoi who gives a stunning performance and Ajay Devgan giving a fine performance.And the rest of the cast,such as the Cop played by Mohanlal is all well done.The camera work,or photography was well done and gives a new look to a typical Bollywood flick.But it's all familiar sometimes.The director seems to be an expert at handling gangster films that revolves around mumbai underworld and he really handles things really well.An ambitious,dark film that tries and succeeds in only minor parts.But it just can't get rid of the Bollywood pedigree.Still,it's a bold feet and a great step ahead and defies bollywood conventions.And for that,it's a success.It's probably the most interesting and gripping Bollywood Dramas..
Plot: It tells us the story of Malik (Ajay Devgn), an underworld don who appoints Chandu (Vivek Oberoi) to work with him.
Company is a film about a youngster Chandu who is a small time crook but has a lot of potential.
The fellow he starts working for, Malik Bhai, runs a very powerful crime syndicate called Company in the Mumbai underworld.
"COMPANY " make me fan of AJAY DEVGAN.He was supper in the movie ......................His way of dialogues delivery was so good .
He speak very less in move but his way of speaking was super n acting was brilliant "COMPANY" is a good movie but it fall to my expectation after interval .
A depiction of Bombay/Mumbai's underworld scenario seen through the eyes of the Crime-Lord Ajay Devgan and new to the 'Company' Vikek Oberoi.
The rise and fall of the small time hoodlum, under the watchful guise of an underworld don, is similar to the relationship shared by Ray Liotta and Robert DeNiro in Goodfellas.This is Vivek Oberois first film, and he gives a mind shattering performance as Chandu, the gangster in training.
He holds his own over the veteran, Ajay Devgan, who plays the underworld don.The story gets very interesting post interval when Oberoi and Devgans characters have a difference of opinion and embark on an international campagn to kill one another.I loved the fact that the film was shot in 3 to 4 different countries.
Hong Kong and Kenya were used a actual backdrops to excel the storyline rather than pituresque locations to film songs.Company is a hard hitting drama that has not been seen in Indian cinema for quite awile.
His direction is just outstanding, almost to the point that he gets his work soo much noticed that it makes the viewer believe that the film's greatest commodity is its direction.Performance wise, Ram Gopal Verma extracts the best performance from Ajay Devgan, and quite possibly the best performance of his career.
He almost looks like an evil character out of Martin Scorsese gangster film.
Despite the fact that he had weak hindi dialogue delivery, his onscreen presence makes up for it, and a few scenes containing an interaction between him, Ajay's character, and Vivek's character were really powerful through dialogue.Sandeep Chowta's background score for Company is really up-beat and catchy, it really uplifts the overall classy look of this gangster saga.
It was as almost as if I was watching the hindi version of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic.The interval climax of Company was so appalling, one of the best interval's I've seen since Gupt.HOWEVER, this film is not even close to being flawless, which is unfortunate since its coming from Ram Gopal Verma.
This was not needed in the film, as later we find out something new develops between Ajay and Vivek's characters.(*SPOILER ENDS HERE*)
On the plus side, Company is an example of Very Good(unique) Indian Cinema filled with top noch performances, excellent cinematography and dialogues and above all, great direction.