Badmaash Company Movie Reviews

Actor turned debutante director Parmeet Sethi made a startling confession on my show, a few days ago. He said, he had completed the entire script, with dialogue, in six days flat. I was apprehensive initially, but not once does BADMAASH COMPANY give you the feeling that it's a hurried job or the debutante writer-director, in a bid to start his first film, had left blanks incomplete. The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need

They are your average friendly neighbourhood guys: the hazaar Cafe Coffee Day dreamers and diviners who hatch a million plots and plans for a zingy future before their cappuccino gets cold. And they all have one thing in common. They all want the good life fast, any which way, and don't mind breaking a few rules here and there. No nine to five stiff-collared jobs for this Badmaash Company who may have been brought up with middle class values

It’s got a background score that sounds suspiciously like Ocean’s 11, a storyline with shades of 21, and clichés that you associate with a ‘Bollywood’ film. In spite of all that, Badmaash Company is immensely watchable. Without some inconsistencies and a little more imagination, it could have been a lot better. The film starts in the year 1994, with Karan (Kapur), Zing (Meiyang), and Chandu (Das) wanting to make a quick buck after graduation.

Everybody loves a caper film. The thought of conning your way into riches is always tempting, especially when stolen off the super rich. The trick is in configuring the newness, coolness and evil quotient of the scam, meaning the amount of bad deeds involved in the con. Under the benign YRF family banner, this Badmaash Company gets salty yet not kamina enough, never venturing into guns or goons.

The father (Anupam Kher), an old, stable, middle-class family man, and a salaried employee of 25 years in the same company, can barely recognise the son he’s raised. This may have little to do with the upbringing, more to do with the times of opportunities and restless ambitions they’re in. The son is clear: “Meri mehnat ka fayda sirf mujhe hona chahiye. Mere boss ya meri company ko nahin

A con film is allowed to be many things. It can be devoid of emotions. It can have a weak love story. It can have average acting. But one thing it just cannot be is stupid! Like all Yash Raj Films movies which try to simplify and sugarcoat things, Parmeet Sethi’s directorial debut aims to be a con film for dummies. But it just ends up being very dumb. It talks about one big idea changing lives. Well, rest assured, Badmaash Company is not that big idea.

Parmeet Sethi, writer-director of this week's "Badmaash Company" has been quoted as having said that he took all of six days to hammer out the script of this film. Well, guess what? It shows! Set in the early 90s, in a pre-liberalized India when foreign brands were expensive and hard to get your hands on, "Badmaash Company" is an outrageously silly story of four middle-class friends who accumulate much wealth when they figure out a perfect con

Bunty Aur Babli for dummies! I am sure that's what the hard bound script of Badmaash Company must have read. If not, how can one explain the similarities between two movies coming out of the same production house? So there are three Buntys (Shahid, Chang and Vir) and one Babli (Anushka) in BC. Jalandhar and Palanpur make way for Bangkok and Vegas, where these con men come up with an ingenious idea of importing

Badmaash Company is a proof that the Yash Raj Films formula is irrevocably broken. The posturing stars, snazzy styling, foreign locations, plastic textures and necessary dash of family values simply can’t cut it anymore. Badmaash Company is a staggeringly tedious film, which takes two hours and twenty three minutes to give us the moral science lesson that honesty is the best policy. Director Parmeet Sethi, who has also written the film

I find it very intriguing why Indian filmmakers can't stick to one theme in their films. If Parmeet Sethi and Yash Raj had promised us a con job film, where was the need to lace it with morality and high melodrama. Now Badmaash Company is definitely not comparable to the Ocean's series or Italian Job because it can't even be compared to a closer home Bunty Aur Babli. One gets so bored as Friends and Company pulls the same con with different products

Perhaps, like in the one fantastic film he was great in, there really are two Shahid Kapoors. One is a decent actor, the sort of person Imtiaz Ali can coerce into impressive restraint, and Vishal Bhardwaj can work miracles with. The other, more frequently seen brother is a talentless hack, one of those young dancing boys who purses his lips to show emotion and wallows in his own smugness. This film, as you might have guessed, stars the latter.

What’s Good: Performance of Shahid Kapoor, the fresh anecdotes, the youthful dialogues, the hit music.