Reviewed by Manish Gajjar, 大象传媒 Shropshire's Bollywood Specialist
Director Ram Gopal Verma reveals the earthy characters in Company with sheer brilliance.
The film focuses on one particular gang leader, Malik Bhai, who is well known for running his organisation like a company.
Malik is on the lookout for fresh faces full of courage and determination to increase his gang's capacity.
This comes in the form of Chandu Nagre, an aggressive character whose nature veers towards that of a merciless killer.
 Indian Cinema is surely going to remember this masterpiece for a long time to come.
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Malik takes an instant liking to Chandu and makes him his right-hand man much to the dismay and jealousy of the other gang members.
The film then shows the grim reality as Malik eliminates his rivals and takes full control of the underworld business, together with Mumbai City, as a whole with the help of young Chandu.
The story takes a turn for the worse when Malik is forced to move his operations to Hong Kong after experiencing great difficulties with the Mumbai Police Department.
From there, they continue to run their remaining part of the company.
All seems to be going smoothly until one crucial misunderstanding between Malik and Chandu leads to their breakup thus causing a major rift between the two characters.
Chandu immigrates to Nairobi, Kenya, where he sets up his own Mafia gang. From then on both gangs target each other as the hatred between Malik and Chandu begins to grow!
Thrown into this tensed saga is tough police inspector Srinivasan. His mission is to eliminate the Mafia gangs who are terrorizing the City of Mumbai.
This in turn causes more problems for the split companies.
Lighter moments amidst the tension-filled story line come from Malik's girlfriend, Saroja, Chandu's love interest, Kannu, and actress "extra-ordinaire" Seema Biswas, from The Bandit Queen. She plays mother to young Chandu to whom she provides a source of strength and inspiration.
Director Ram Gopal Verma has managed to create the right ambience for this film and if the audience thinks his last masterpiece, Satya was brilliant then they should think twice with Verma's latest offering!
The background score by Sandeep Chowta deserves a special mention as it suites the mood and atmosphere of the film like a glove. He has proven once again to be one of the best music directors of Bollywood!
Since song and dance sequences did not form a major part of the film, Sandeep had a mammoth task in front of him which he succeeded in!
Action sequences composed by Allan Amin were perfect and on par with Hollywood action films.
The performance by Ajay Devgan as Malik is full of conviction as he exudes his emotions through his eyes with his usual ease!
But the applause is sure to go to Vivek Oberoi for his debut award-winning performance as the young Chandu Nagre!
Last but not the least, our felicitation goes to director Ram Gopal Verma for his portrayal of the underworld with great 'reality'.
Indian Cinema is surely going to remember this masterpiece for a long time to come.
Company is on at the Cineworld, Rugby, on 26 May.
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