Company (2002)

Directed by

Ram Gopal Varma

Genre

drama film, action film, neo-noir

Country

India

Runtime

2h 35m

Rated

18

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 80 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A loyal henchman and a powerful gangster build a close partnership that eventually fractures, leading to a violent fallout between them.

tensegrittydarkintensesuspensefulvisceralurgent

What happens

Company is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Jaideep Sahni. The film stars Mohanlal, Ajay Devgn, Vivek Oberoi, Manisha Koirala, Antara Mali, and Seema Biswas. It marked Mohanlal's debut in Hindi cinema. It is the second instalment in Varma's Gangster trilogy. The film follows Chandu, a henchman of a gangster named Malik, with whom he forms a rapport that eventually falls apart after tension arises between them. Varma conceived the idea of the film after meeting a man named Haneef, who had been in prison for five years after the 1993 Bombay bombings and was a close aid of the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in his D-Company. Haneef told Varma about the fallout between Ibrahim and Chhota Rajan. Varma also had much information that he used in the film, especially about police procedures he could not use in Satya since it was too much for one film. The film was made in several locations in Mumbai, Mombasa, Nairobi, Hong Kong, and Switzerland. Hemant Chaturvedi served as the director of photography, while Chandan Arora edited the film. Company was released on 12 April 2002 and received positive reviews from critics. It was commercially successful, grossing ₹25.02 crores against its production budget of ₹9.5 crores. It was screened at the Austin Film Festival, the New York Asian Film Festival, and the Fribourg International Film Festival. The film won six awards at the 48th Filmfare Awards, including Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Debut for Oberoi, Critics Best Actor for Devgn, and Critics Best Actress for Koirala. Several film critics have cited Company as one of Varma's best works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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