Badmaash Company

Direction: Parmeet Sethi
Production: Aditya Chopra
Star Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, Vir Das, Anupam Kher
Rating: * * * 1/2

Badmaash Company is the first ventured direction of actor cum director Parmeet Sethi. However, the movie doesn’t reflect that it is directed by an inexperienced director, Parmeet. Script was written by him only in six days but the work doesn’t seemed to be done in hurry. Shahid is back in his negative role after Kaminey movie.
The story is of four friends- Shahid (Karan), Anushka (Bulbul), Meiyang (Zing), Vir (Chandu); who want to get rich and ultimate success through shortcut. Obviously morals don’t have to do anything in shortcuts. Human’s greed doesn’t have any limits and so is with these friends.

To fulfill his dreams Karan leaves his home. With the partnership of his girlfriend (Bulbul) and two friends (Chandu and Zing), he starts his business of imports of branded shoes and their business keeps on varying according to the circumstances. Due to problems their group splits and from the top of the world, Karan falls back to the ground. Problems keep on increasing in his life. With the partnership of his maternal uncle, he and his same friends outshine in business again but this time he has the support of his father also.
After disappointing Paathshaala, Shahid is back with a good one. He gave a strong performance. Anushka has done far better as compared to her work in Rab ne Banadi Jodi. Her act very well suits the character. Vir and Meiyang justify their role. Anupam kher in the father’s act is work is outstanding. Music by Pritam, is hit.

Badmaash Company is a good entertainer and a must watch movie.

Raavan

Direction: Mani Ratnam
Production: Mani Ratnam
Star Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram, Govinda
Rating: * *

Ratnam’s Raavan is the modern-day version of a hindu epic, Ramayan. However the role of the character 'Raavan' is quite transformed. He is not villain any more, he helps the needy people. He is worshipped by masses. It can be said that he is a MODERN RAAVAN.
Story is basically about Beera (Abhishek Bachchan), Ragini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and Dev Pratap Sharma (Vikram).
While boat riding a married women Ragini (Sita), wife of Police Officer Dev, gets kidnapped by the negative shade Beera (Raavan), as Beera wants to take revenge from Dev. After kidnapping her, he doesn’t know what to do. All he does with Ragini, is making her listen his meaningless jhik..jhik..jhik sorts of noise. There are some scenes in the movie in which police is looted easily.
Police attacks only when they give a valid reason to Beera to take revenge on the police force. Ramayan’s concept made it predictable. As one can easily guess rightly that what would be the next act. Just before the end of such a frustrating movie, Ragini starts liking her captor. Movie seems like focused more on doing wild acts.

Govinda as the forest guard, with his rare scenes made the movie bit funny. Best part of the movie is cinematography.
 Abhishek Bachchan is exposed in a compelety different manner, he acts ably. Aish justifies her role. South Indian Vikram gave a sparkling performance. Ravi kissan and Priyamani have done their best. When it comes to music, Behne De and Ranjha Ranjha are superb. However  background music by A.R. Rahman is more lovely than the tracks.
A few weeks earlier, Prakash Jha presented Rajneeti packaged the other important epic, Mahabharata, is far better than Ratnam’s disappointing Raavan. Despite of involvement of the other face of Jha’s coin and big names of bollywood, the movie didn’t work upto the expectactions. It is more like a documentary than an entertaining movie.

Raavan is quite disappointing, predictable and average movie.