Company 2002

Company is a 2002 Indian Bollywood costume drama, thriller film released on Apr 15, 2002. The film is directed by Ram Gopal Varma, produced by Ram Gopal Varma.

The film is based on the underworld gang. It is the story of the two gangsters who unite to displace a bigger gangster. But as the empire grows, they start drifting apart.

THIS FILM IS SAID TO BE BASED ON THE REAL LIFE STORY OF 'DAWOOD IBRAHIM' & HIS ASSOCIATE 'CHOTTA RAJAN' PLAYED BY MALLIKBHAI (AJAY DEVGAN) & CHANDU (VIVEK OBEROI) IN THE FILM. INITALLY MALLIK BHAI WAS WORKING UNDER THE AEGIS OF THE ASLAM BHAI GANG (MADAN JOSHI). BUT AS THE BUSINESS WAS GROWING, MALLIK HAD TAKEN OVER THE BUSINESS AND ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASLAM BHAI. HE INTRODUCED CHANDRAKANT AKA CHANDU IN HIS GANG. CHANDU WAS WORKING EXTREMELY WELL & WAS VERY SHARP MINDED. MALLIK WAS VERY HAPPY WITH HIS WORK AND THE WAY HE WAS WORKING. ONE DAY, MINISTER RAHUTE (BHARAT DABHOLKER) GIVES A CONTRACT TO MALLIK BHAI TO KILL THE HOME MINISTER. MALLIK GIVES THE WORK TO CHANDU. THEY PLAN IT AS AN ACCIDENT. BUT BEFORE DOING ANYTHING, CHANDU SEES THAT HIS TWO CHILDREN ARE ALSO THERE WITH THE MINISTER. CHANDU TERMINATES THE MISSION IMMIEDIATELY AS IT IS AGAINST HIS ETHICS TO KILL SMALL CHILDREN. BUT MALLIK GIVES AN ORDER TO ANOTHER PERSON AND MAKES THE MISSION SUCCESSFUL. AFTER THAT A LONG ARGUMENT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN CHANDU AND MALLIK'S ACCOCIATES IN FRONT OF MALLIK. MALLIK ULTIMATELY SAYS THAT THE COMPANY CAN RUN WITHOUT CHANDU ALSO. AFTER THIS A GREAT MISUNDERSTANDING EMERGES BETWEEN CHANDU AND MALLIK. CHANDU DECIDES TO FINSH OFF THE COMPANY ON HIS OWN BUT GETS CAUGHT BY THE MUMBAI POLICE & BECOMES AN INFORMER INORDER TO DESTROY THE COMPANY. COMPANY POWER IS DECREASING SLOWLY BUT LATER ON CHANDU & MALLIK BECOME FRIENDS ONCE AGAIN THOUGH CHANDU IS NOW IN JAIL. BUT IN THIS MISUNDERSTANDING, CHANDU'S ASSOCIATE KODA SINGH (VIJAY RAAZ) SHOOTS MALLIK IN THE NAME OF REVENGE.

Essentially "Company"is the story of two gangster friends, their relationship with each other, their conflicts, and their final split. Chandu ( Vivek Oberoi), the younger of the two men, lives in a chawl area with his mother. He is invited to join the gang by Mallick( Ajay Devgan). Mallick is in love with Saroja (Manish Koirala), while Chandu falls in love with his friend's sister, Kannu (Antara Mali). The two women have an interesting friendship in the film.
Mallick and Chandu together create havoc and terror in Mumbai, as gang activities move across the world, with different members looking after their respective territorial responsibilities. What makes "Company" distinguished from others is its syndicate gangster world, which is structured as a well-oiled totalitarian machine with immense international power
Chandu's life in " Company" is essentially portrayed as the journey of an individual with a mind of his own. Chandu's rise in the gang, his differences with Mallick, and their final conflict ultimately take Chandu on a path of renunciation that will make him redeem himself of his criminal past. In this journey, the individual is rescued from the larger space of the gang and removed to another space where legal order can be restored.

The film highlights the economics behind running an Indian mafia organization. In the opening of the film, Ajay Devgan describes the modus operandi of underworld. He states "Despite anybody telling anything else, in this world everything is done for profit, so is this business. We don't pay taxes, neither do we keep accounts; For this work is done by inducing fear. Anybody can join us anytime, but can never resign. Whoever breaks our law, is broken by us. Here friendship, respect or honesty, the only real reason behind all these is same thing -- Profit". During murder / extortion scenes following, Ajay Devgan adds "profit happens -- like this, like this or like that". The story revolves around a young man named Chandu (full name : Chandarkant Nagre) (played by Vivek Oberoi) joining the world of crime in the Mumbai underworld to "make it big" someday. Gradually he learns tricks of the trade and increases the gang's earnings and profits. This leads to his affinity with Malik (played by Ajay Devgan) who is the leader of the gang. The film features one cold blooded murder scene wherein Malik and Chandu kill Saeed and his brother Anis in the rear seat of the car on a chilling rainy day. Thereafter Malik goes on a bloody rampage killing all his opponents, so as to take the reins of underworld in his hands. They include his rival gang leader and colleague under Aslam's umbrella Sharma, who was in a meeting with police inspector Rathod, also killed off. Inspector Rathod, who once tortured and abused Chandu in jail in early days, was also killed at Malik's permission. However, both come at loggerheads during the execution of a contract killing. The contract was from a politician who tries to use Malik's gang to eliminate a front-runner, a contender for Home Minister's post. The rift between Chandu and Malik widens due to various misunderstandings. The Commissioner of Police, Sreenivasan IPS (Mohanlal) makes use of the rift to bring the mafia under control. Chandu and Malik end up becoming bitter enemies. After Chandu's retaliation of the assassination of his lifelong friend of one of lieutenants Warsi, two factions of Mumbai's once most powerful gang 'Company' went to a full scale war. Malik and Chandu killed as many members of each opponent gangs as possible. Sreenivasan, as the police chief of the city of murders due to the war, became criticized greatly, but he and his men knew this war ultimately is shortening the to do list of his department. Big number of button men and lieutenants from both gangs were being killed. The war results in an intense chase sequence shot in Kenya where Malik hires hitmen to kill Chandu. However Chandu survives, though he is injured severely. Sreenivasan convinces Chandu to come back to Mumbai and fight his war with Malik by helping the police bring the mafia under control. The film reaches its climax when Chandu kills the politician (the mastermind of the contract killing) within the prison. At the same time, one of Chandu's aides named Koda Singh, who swore revenge to kill who went against his friend Chandu, shoots Malik point blank to death in Hong Kong. This shows, Chandu and Malik came to a truce but Chandu never withdrew his order to Koda to kill Malik. It's not confirmed that whether Chandu has forgotten to withdraw his orders or deliberately kept that on. But, after the assassination Sreenivasan notified Chandu and Chandu became tremendously shocked at this news. So, possibly Chandu forgot to send a come back call to Koda. Koda Singh was arrested by Hong Kong Police on that day. The film ends, showing Chandu spending the rest of his life in prison after being persuaded by the Police Commissioner to surrender. Check out this page for more updates on Company.