What a great film!
Without a doubt, Ram Gopal Verma is "the" most talented and innovative filmmaker in Bollywood. He is cut above the rest. 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. Being the main evil character of this Hindi Film, you won't hear or see him in any loud actions which is usualy a norm amongst antagonist in Hindi Films. In Company, Ajay Devgan's character gets his evil and powerful character noticed through his creative thinking, clam and quietness. Ontop of that, his look and appearance in the film is fantastic. He almost looks like an evil character out of Martin Scorsese gangster film. Truly, Ajay Devgan has given another National Award worthy performance. Vivek Oberoi is superb. Being his first film, he acted like a true professional. At some times, he reminded me of Manoj Bajpai from Satya. Even Vivek's overall look and appearance in Company was great, something new that maybe others will shadow in there films to creat that Indian Natural Born Killer look. Mohanlal is just Mohanlal. His onscreen presence if full of electricity, he reminded me of Amitabh Bachchan. 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. And i just LOVE the dialogue that plays in the back "Sab Ganda Hai, Per Danda Hai Yha! Sab Ganda Hai, Per Danda Hai Yha!" (*SPOILER*)For those that have seen the film, have you noticed that everytime someone gets killed in the film, you would always see someone light up a cigarette afterwords, I don't know how this was a metaphor to anything related to the killings, but it was something really interesting which I noticed(*SPOILER ENDS HERE*).
Hemant Chaturvedi's cinematography is brilliant. The different angles he used with his camera to shoot many portions of film really makes the film looks something unique and special. 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. The film had bad editing (Chandan Arora). Some of the interesting features I saw on the pre-promotion of this film were not on the final product. And the script/story wasn't too strong as compared Anurag Kashyap's previous scripts for Ramu. There were some inconsistency in the film's story. IE.(*SPOILER*) Antra Mali going to Hong Kong to convince Ajay Devgan to change his mind on killing Vivek Oberoi, and when Ajay Devgan refuses, she herself gets killed when attempting to kill Ajay Devgan. This was not needed in the film, as later we find out something new develops between Ajay and Vivek's characters.(*SPOILER ENDS HERE*)
As far as I'm concerned, Ram Gopal Verma should stick with Anurag Kashyap, his scripts are far more convincing with excellent character development, and much more flawless story telling. And who better to bring them out with prefection but Ram Gopal Verma, and we've seen it happen in Satya and Kaun?
Overall, is this film better than Satya? NO WAY!! As good as Satya? Close, but not quite. I'd say it's the second best Gang-related film ever made in India thus far. And it's on the same level as Sarfarosh, interms of quality. Thus, Satya still remains Ramu's best film, and it seems that the only one who can compete and overlap Ramu is Ramu himself, with the help of a strong script writer (Anurag Kashyap), which was really missing in Company. 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. These factors have uplifted the good(but not great) script. Company- A Law & Order Enterprise.
Rating: 9/10 (a classy gangster-saga)
Without a doubt, Ram Gopal Verma is "the" most talented and innovative filmmaker in Bollywood. He is cut above the rest. 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. Being the main evil character of this Hindi Film, you won't hear or see him in any loud actions which is usualy a norm amongst antagonist in Hindi Films. In Company, Ajay Devgan's character gets his evil and powerful character noticed through his creative thinking, clam and quietness. Ontop of that, his look and appearance in the film is fantastic. He almost looks like an evil character out of Martin Scorsese gangster film. Truly, Ajay Devgan has given another National Award worthy performance. Vivek Oberoi is superb. Being his first film, he acted like a true professional. At some times, he reminded me of Manoj Bajpai from Satya. Even Vivek's overall look and appearance in Company was great, something new that maybe others will shadow in there films to creat that Indian Natural Born Killer look. Mohanlal is just Mohanlal. His onscreen presence if full of electricity, he reminded me of Amitabh Bachchan. 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. And i just LOVE the dialogue that plays in the back "Sab Ganda Hai, Per Danda Hai Yha! Sab Ganda Hai, Per Danda Hai Yha!" (*SPOILER*)For those that have seen the film, have you noticed that everytime someone gets killed in the film, you would always see someone light up a cigarette afterwords, I don't know how this was a metaphor to anything related to the killings, but it was something really interesting which I noticed(*SPOILER ENDS HERE*).
Hemant Chaturvedi's cinematography is brilliant. The different angles he used with his camera to shoot many portions of film really makes the film looks something unique and special. 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. The film had bad editing (Chandan Arora). Some of the interesting features I saw on the pre-promotion of this film were not on the final product. And the script/story wasn't too strong as compared Anurag Kashyap's previous scripts for Ramu. There were some inconsistency in the film's story. IE.(*SPOILER*) Antra Mali going to Hong Kong to convince Ajay Devgan to change his mind on killing Vivek Oberoi, and when Ajay Devgan refuses, she herself gets killed when attempting to kill Ajay Devgan. This was not needed in the film, as later we find out something new develops between Ajay and Vivek's characters.(*SPOILER ENDS HERE*)
As far as I'm concerned, Ram Gopal Verma should stick with Anurag Kashyap, his scripts are far more convincing with excellent character development, and much more flawless story telling. And who better to bring them out with prefection but Ram Gopal Verma, and we've seen it happen in Satya and Kaun?
Overall, is this film better than Satya? NO WAY!! As good as Satya? Close, but not quite. I'd say it's the second best Gang-related film ever made in India thus far. And it's on the same level as Sarfarosh, interms of quality. Thus, Satya still remains Ramu's best film, and it seems that the only one who can compete and overlap Ramu is Ramu himself, with the help of a strong script writer (Anurag Kashyap), which was really missing in Company. 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. These factors have uplifted the good(but not great) script. Company- A Law & Order Enterprise.
Rating: 9/10 (a classy gangster-saga)