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| BADMAASH
COMPANY MOVIE REVIEW |
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by : Harish |
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Starring:
Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang,
Vir Das, Anupam Kher.
Direction:
Parmeet Sethi
Music:
Pritam Chakraborty
Production:
Yash Raj Films |
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Yash
Raj, after a series of flops, a Rab Ne.,
a New York and the supremely lovable -
yet a box office disaster ‘Rocket
Singh’, has once again invested
quite heavily on actor Parmeet Sethi’s
first directorial - Badmaash company.
Coming-of-age movies are quite the trend
in Hindi cinema, and who best to portray
the brilliant young kid with a vision
than the person who has specialized in
such movies - Shahid Kapoor.
The movie is about Karan (Shahid) and
his friends, who ride on an idea to do
the wrong, and start enjoying its dividends
only later to realize - that dishonesty
pays but doesn't guarantee eternal happiness
and joyous life. When Karan finally understands
it, he is all alone in the jail. Can Karan
bounce back and get his life back on track?
Well what’s the fun in reading the
visual content?
Badmaash
Company is a mixed bag, it starts off
promisingly only to fall in the cliché
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predictable proceedings but leads to a decent finale.
The pace does shift regularly but somehow at the end
of it all you do come out satisfied. Parmeet Sethi
does impress with his directorial debut and shows
immense promise, no wonder Yash Raj has signed him
for two more movies. In the scene when Karan moves
out of his house or the intimate scenes of the lead
pair - the director had shown immense maturity and
understanding of the medium. At the same time, the
movie does suffer from being too predictable. And
the climax sequences looks unrealistic.
Shahid Kapoor is not at his sizzling best but still
is likable, the best thing about him is his confidence
level and he is never short of that. Anushka sheds
her inhibitions to flaunt her assets and sizzles on
screen with her well-toned body and her scintillating
performance. There are a few sequences when she does
overact but can be pardoned as she makes up for it.
Vir Das, the stand-up comedian is brilliant as Chandu.
He sure is going places. Meiyang Chang is decent as
Zing. Anupam Kher is dependable as always and so is
Kiran Juneja.
Cinematography by Sanjay Packium is good, so is the
editor Ritesh Soni but the movie does not boast of
a good musical score and though one or two songs are
good, it somehow doesn't suit the movie. Overall -
the movie has a good technical crew who could have
done a better job.
Badmaash Company could have achieved greatness but
does have to be content with a good film tag. A tag
that can carry the film forward at least until the
‘Kites’ fly in.
Verdict:
A coming of age feel good entertainer.
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: Badmaash Company, Shahid
Kapoor, Anushka
Sharma, Anupam
Kher,
Yash
Raj Films |
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