harshaltrivedi2002

First I would like to add that I am not very much fond of the crop of Bollywood movies. They are convoluted and hackneyed story lines with excruciatingly long dance numbers but I stumbled upon this film, "Company". At first thought, I realized the parallels to Scorsese's "Goodfellas" but once the story digresses it is more than that. There are clear influences of the great mobster films of Coppola and others but the story in the way it is told is quite refreshing for Bollywood standards. We see the rise of this slum dweller Chandu, who meets upon this respected underworld leader, Malik, and slowly progresses up to the top of the hierarchy. Ram Gopal Varma is a very effective director. He displays very bizarre camera angles through exquisite cinematography. The editing is sharp and quick with the running time flying by. The only criticism is the song sequence in the beginning and the dance club number. Totally pointless. With the recent influx of Chinese films being displayed in America such as "Hero" and "Shaolin Soccer", I hope someone like Tarantino brings a film like this to a larger audience because not doing so would do it an incredible injustice. What more can one say,It's "Company".