name | Company |
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director | Ram Gopal Varma |
producer | C. Ashwini DuttBoney KapoorRam Gopal Varma |
screenplay | Jaideep Sahni |
starring | Ajay DevganMohanlalManisha KoiralaVivek OberoiSeema BiswasAntara Mali |
cinematography | Hemant Chaturvedi |
music | Sandeep Chowta |
editing | Chandan Arora |
studio | Varma CorporationVyjayanthi Movies |
released | 15 April 2002 (India)14 October 2004 (Austin Film Festival) |
runtime | 155 minutes |
country | India |
language | Hindi }} |
Company () is a 2002 Indian film directed by Ram Gopal Varma and written by Jaideep Sahni, starring Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi,and Antara Mali. It is a fictional exposé of the Mumbai underworld, loosely based on the Indian mafia organization D-Company, known to be run by Dawood Ibrahim. The film won six out of the eleven awards it was nominated for at the Filmfare Awards.
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. Gradually he learns tricks of the trade and increases the gang's earnings and profits. 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. Thereafter Malik goes on a bloody rampage killing all his opponents, so as to take the reins of underworld in his hands.
They include his rival gang leader and colleague under Aslam's umbrella Sharma, who was in a meeting with police inspector Rathod, also killed off. Inspector Rathod, who once tortured and abused Chandu in jail in early days, was also killed at Malik's permission.
However, both come at loggerheads during the execution of a contract killing. 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 rift between Chandu and Malik widens due to various misunderstandings. The Commissioner of Police, Sreenivasan IPS (Mohanlal) makes use of 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 life long 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 the city 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 number of button men and lieutenants from both gangs were being killed. The war results in an intense chase sequence shot in Kenya where Malik hires hitmen to kill Chandu.
However 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.
The film reaches its climax when Chandu kills the politician (the mastermind of the contract killing) within the prison. At the same time, one of Chandu's aides named Koda Singh, who swore revenge to kill who went against his friend Chandu, shoots Malik point blank to death in Hong Kong.
This shows, 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. But, after the assassination Sreenivasan notified Chandu and Chandu became tremendously shocked at this news. So, possibly Chandu forgot to send a come back call to Koda.
Koda Singh was arrested by Hong Kong Police on that day. The film ends, showing Chandu spending the rest of his life in prison after being persuaded by the Police Commissioner to surrender.
{{infobox album | name | Company:The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Type Album | Artist Sandeep Chowta | Cover | Released 2002 | Genre Soundtrack | Length 39.2 min| Label T-Series| Producer Sandeep Chowta| }} |
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The soundtrack features 8 songs composed by Sandeep Chowta, with lyrics by Nitin Raikwar .
Track listing: #"Khallas" (5:03) – Asha Bhosle, Sudesh Bhonsle, Sapna Awasthi #"Tumse Kitna" (4:28) – Altaf Raja #"Pyar Pyar Mein" (4:51) – Babul Supriyo, Sonali Vajpayee #"A Shot of Company" (4:32) – Instrumental #"Malik's Soul" (6:19) – Instrumental #"Gandha Hai" (3:43) – Sandeep Chowta #"Ankhon Mein" (5:13) – Sowmya Raoh #"Khallas Remix" (5:11) – Asha Bhonsle, Sudesh Bhonsle
Company shows how the Hindi film industry went into trouble after violent split between Chandu and Mallik. Another interview of Chotta Shakeel which was given to Times of India describes the intense circumstance inside the Mumbai's film industry due to gang disputes. It appears that depiction of a dispute in Company where fictional film-star Naved Khan falls between Mallik's and Chandu's disputing gangs gangs and becomes immensely confused, has been a reference to that notable interview where Chotta Shakeel almost leaves a clarification of underworld's finance in Indian film industry.
Role of Vilas Pandit, the closest aide of Malik who appeared to be the Consigliere of Malik's gang, is believed to be a depiction of real-life D-Company aide, counsellor and Dawood Ibrahim's confidant Sharad Shetty. After the split between Dawood and Rajan, Shetty was one of very few Hindus left in the main stream D-Company. Here it can be stated that the fate of Shetty was correctly perceived in Company. Company showed Vilas Pandit was shot to death by Chandu in Hong Kong when Pandit went to Chandu's place for an unprecedented meeting and Chandu misinterpreted his appearance as an attempt of hit. Real-life D-Company counselor Sharad Shetty too was killed outside a Dubai nightclub, by a hit carried out by Chotta Rajan. Ironically this real life hit was carried out eight months after the release of Company which had already depicted a similar incident in the adopted storyline.
Category:2002 films Category:Hindi-language films Category:Indian films Category:Films about organized crime in India Category:Films set in Mumbai Category:Films directed by Ram Gopal Varma
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