COMPANY (India – 2002)
Directed by: Ram Gopal Varma
Starring: Vivek Oberoi, Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Seema Biswas
“Powered by a quietly crazed performance from Ajay Devgan, and complemented by a strong debut from young actor Vivek Oberoi… this certainly ranks as one of Bollywood's best of 2002.”
- Derek Elley, Variety

As cold as the flicker of a cobra’s tongue, COMPANY is the epic saga of the rise and fall of an international criminal cartel and the men and women who built its marble halls on a mountain of corpses. Combining Francis Ford Coppola’s panoramic sweep and Martin Scorsese’s delicate touch with actors, Ram Gopal Varma delivers the greatest crime story to hit the screen since GOODFELLAS. 

Malik (dead-eyed, Ajay Devgan) recruits slum-thug, Chandu (Vivek Oberoi), to beef up his side in an internal war. The two come out on top and together they build an international business - that the business consists of extortion, murder, and movie producing just means that they're competing in the big leagues.

A technical triumph, COMPANY features an ensemble cast of hot-headed Sikhs, movie-mad Muslims, pacifist getaway drivers, lazy brothers, blissfully ignorant mothers, and girlfriends who are hopelessly in love with men who are hopelessly bad. Virtuoso sequences are thrust at the viewer like fistfulls of candy: rainy hits, subterranean negotiations, blood-slimed power plays, and a bravura sequence which proves that while the cell phone is mightier than the gun, the gun is a lot more satisfying. Stretching from India, to Hong Kong, to Switzerland, to Kenya, COMPANY leaves a wet, slimy trail of blood and corruption wherever it goes.