Aryan wrote:
DVD Collector,
I just read your review of Company - and I just cannot agree with some of your claims and views. For one, Chandan Arora's editing was superb and very sophisticated. He is easily one of the best editors in Bollywood alongside (late)Renu Saluja(1942 A Love Story), Suresh Urs(Dil Se) and and Sreekar Prasad(Dil Chahta Hai, Fiza).
Also, putting it on the same level as Sarfarosh is downright ridiculous! Sarfarosh has got silly little Bollywood sub-plots, poor direction, politically correct Hindu & Muslim characters, silly song sequences and strictly average technical values. Also, Sonali Bendre's role was bordering on pathetic in the film.
The film was merely cashing in on Hindu-Muslim sentiments, so obviously...
About Company: Not only its editing, but this film didn't have a strong script. If killing someone because of any one mistake is a policy in Malik's danda. Than why didn't he kill Manisha's character after she revealed to him that she had phoned chandu's wife about someone coming to kill him, and because of her, the punditji character died. Why did Malik let her go? because she was his girl? Well, that's an Inconsistency in the script. It shows that Malik doesn't completely follow his own company's policy and makes exceptions for his love ones. And why did Chandu's wife really need to die in the film? Because later on both Malik & Chandu become friends. Only because Malik finds out that Punditji coming to kill Chandu was a misconception. One side thought that Punditji would bring back Chandu into the gang, and the other side thought that Punditji was coming to kill Chandu. I see no point to Chandu's wife's death in the film. It doesn't carry forward the movie at all? It seems that the major parts of the film happen all due to misconceptions. When Malik is killed, that too, because of misconception, Vijay Raaz's character(the one who shoots Malik) didn't know that Malik & Chandu had resolved there differences and had become friends again. If he had known, he wouldn't had killed Malik.
About Sarfarosh: Yes, the film did have a typical Bollywood sub-plot(s). But you'll have to explain to me how the film was poorly directed? I thought everyone in the film gave a fantastic performance. Sarfarosh has to be easily Aamir Khan's top 3 performances of his career, even Mukesh Rishi gives his best performance in this film. Sarfarosh is director John Mathew Matthan's first film, and he did a terrific job in extracting good performances out of everyone. And I thought the depiction of the muslim character in Salim was quite real. But the film also tries to portray a positive stereo-type in Muslim people in India through the relations between Salim & ACP Rathod. I felt the technical values in Sarfarosh were excellent. Much superior editing in this film than in Company. The film had very simple and realistic art direction. Yes, again there were the silly typical bollywood sub-plot. But I felt that this was only practiced to give this film a Bollywood film look, and not turn it into an art film or off-beat film. And I really enjoy such films, because the filmmakers get there vital point across through a large amount of audience even if presented in a typical bollywood manner. Mind you, Sarfarosh was a HIT in India, which was a surprise to me, because of the positive stereo-type in Salim's character in the film. I thought that the Indian public wouldn't accept it. Ontop of all this, Sarfarosh had a strong script. It didn't have any loopholes like Company did.
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