Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Corporate : Its a corporate world

Rating : 3.5/5

Pros: Excellent story line

Cons: some half baked characters

Starcast: Sehgal group of industries (Bipasha Basu, K K menon, Rajat Kapoor, Harsh Chayya, Sammir Dattani, Minissha Lamba) Marwah International ( Raj Babbar, Sandeep Mehta ) Others - Lilletey Dubey, Payal Rohtagi, Bharat Dabholkar.
Music : Shamir Tandon Screenplay : Madhur Bhandarkar, Manoj Tyagi, Anay Monga Producer : Sahara Ones Motion Pictures
Director : Madhur Bhandarkar

After page 3, Madhur has taken a long leap with this celluloid material. He has the abilities to make you think, as you watch his movies. The only similarity in Chandni bar, satta, page 3, Aan and Corporate is, each of it has hard hitting, thought provoking story line .

If page 3 peeped into the social life of so called page 3 celebrities, this one will show the dark side of voracious corporate world . This is a story of people, who can go for any unethical means, keeping moral codes aside, just to make themself No. 1 in the corporate world. Here the only rule is to get the wealth, fame and success at any damn cost.

The story goes around two FMCG giants, Marwah International and Sehgal groups, Both starvinig to take an extra leap before its rival can. And for that, they can use anything from power, money, politics, sex, manipulating stock market or whatever it takes. Relations and emotions struggled to find place, when it comes to business.

Corporate has a gripping script with consciously framed incidences like two giants fighting to get a stake in PSU, one going for FII to take a leap over other. Pesticide issue reminds of cola-pepsi war and pesticide content issue happened around 3 years back.

As movie goes on, it grips your mind , and take you to a different world. The thrill & pace doesn’t allow you to think anything, but to stay seated just to know whats next in the movie.

Bipasha and Rajat Kapoor has delivered there best performance till date. This is not just another bollwood movie. Only refined filmaker like Madhur dares to touch such subjects. He is redefining the bollywood. I hope more such movies, in the days to come.

Highlights
-Lillete Dubey is at her best in a scene just after the business award function.
-Converstaon between Sandeep and Bipasha, when the former got fired from Marwah group.
-Conversaton between payal and the minister.
-All of boardroom conversations. -Climax ( Its very realilstic ).
-Peon and office boy provide some fun N laugh, and the good thing is, one can easliy associate with the jokes they deliver.

What to watch out for :
-> Power packed performances. Kay kay Menon and Rajat Kapoor rocks. One of the finest performances by Bips.
-> Costume Design - Bips looks great in the western formals designed by Allen solly.
-> Excellent plot and beautiful screenplay.
-> Cinematogrphy, although with the kind of script coraporate offers, there is not much scope for good cinematography.

What not to watch out :
-> This one misses typical one liners , which you can expect from Madhur’s movie.
-> Minishha Lamba and Sammir Dattani has noting to do in the movie. Probably, there role is edited.

A suggestion for Madhur Bhandarkar: Please tell other filmakers also, how to make a good movie with low budget .

Oveall, its a must watch movie.

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