Sunday afternoon was Corporate. I mean Corporate the Film. First reaction it is a typical Madhur Bhandarkar Film. Like Page 3 it is also got the same stark look. But styling and finish gives it a "Corporate" look. Allen Solly has done all the styling and costumes and that is pretty apparent everywhere in the film with properly placed ads.
Coming back to the movie. Its got Bipasha Basu in the lead. Here is the startcast.
Starring
Bispasha Basu as Nishigandha Dasgupta
Kay Kay Menon as Ritesh Sahani
Sammir Dattani as Anmol Rawat
Minissha Lamba as Megha Apte
Rajat Kapoor as Vinay Sehgal
Harsh Chhaya, Sandeep Mehta, Achint Kaur, Raj Babbar, Lillete Dubey
Movie
So finally the movie is all about the conscience.
The corporate world so much a part of television serials ( especially Ekta Kapoor ones ), has never been exposed on the large screen since Shyam Benegal's KALYUG. To his credit Bhandarkar, with considerable help from his editor, has quickly gone through the psyche of businessmen. In business only bottomline matters. His direction is very very fluid. I mean it does not have any sharp corners taken at full speed or any slow areas where u feel like the time has come to check out any good girls nearby whom u might like to bump into in the interval. The story, screenplay and direction goes clean through all the people, and ultimately it makes one believe that the Movie is bigger than all the starcasts, songs etc.Madhur Bhandarkar has a tremendous knack of telling stories the way they should be.
This is a director who packs in a precious punch in the plot. The screenplay that Bhandarkar has co-written with Manoj Tyagi has enough twists and turns to make the corporate jargon decodable to the lay person, like the sidekicks ( peons,drivers) discussing business fundamentals...
.. One to watch out for is the comparison between Public Ltd. and Private Ltd company.
Like CHANDNI BAR and PAGE 3, CORPORATE sets its feet firmly in a culture-specific work-oriented category. It then finds an emotional outlook of people who are still humane in the cutthroat business world, and portrays them as people trapped in ambitions and desires over which they've no control after a point.
Though Bhandarkar forms an base with two rival families headed by Rajat Kapoor and Raj Babbar , the story ultimately moves on to two colleagues, played with restrain by Kay Kay and Bipasha, working on the same side of the fence and yet drifting away due to their inability to control the ethics of doing business.
Though it a film. but i cant stop saying that it bears a stark resemblence to 2 softdrinks majors and other related incidents.
I would rate it 7/10 as a movie.
In the acting department Bipasha has done good. I feel she has grown up as a actor, though she was quite good in Jism too.
Kay Kay Menon is already an established actor. He was good in Sarkar and Chal also. Raj Babbar has given quite a power packed performance as a god fearing and a family devoted shrewd businessman. Rajat Kapoor has also done quite good. As in Monsoon Wedding he has this slight grey shade to his character, which he portrays brilliantly.
Lastly direction is good and screenplay is worth watching.
So all in all u can see it once IF u have liked films like Page 3 and Chandini Bar. Though this does not come near to those but it brings us upto date with several issues and coporate and ministerial jargon and of course corruption.
Corporate : Film Review
