A crumpled mess of implausible storytelling glazed with over the top stylisation
If making a good movie is like crafting a statue out of stone, “Badmash Company” takes the Lego blocks assembly shortcut mashing together a few borrowed cons (some may faintly remind you of “Matchstick Men”, a Nicholas Cage starrer released in 2003) to churn out a wasteful effort. In fact, you suspect if any effort was involved at all in scheming up the story of four friends who try to make some fast money via dodgy means. Everything is a fair game – from sneakers to gloves to even the mortgage market – for our con artists extraordinaire led by Karan (Shahid Kapoor), who start with simple sneaker smuggling in a pre-liberalised India and then set their sights on pulling off cons in the Big Apple. How four ordinary Indians with seemingly little in terms of connections can pull such far fetched and ambitious heists is beyond comprehension.
Implausibility aside, the film appears too stylised (Yash Raj Films love their costumes and their locations grand and slick but you’d be surprised to see how glam pre-liberalisation India looked!) for you to be interested in the characters, who by the way are lazily etched anyway. The story is pretty predictable and the fact that our ‘Friends & Co.’ (that’s what the four dub themselves) touch everything from the mortgage market to the stock market besides getting Michael Jackson to start a fashion trend will make you want to yank your hair out. The acting is conspicuous by its absence; Meiyang Chang and Vir Das have too little screen time to really matter and Anushka Sharma is just about there. Shahid Kapoor tries to be all he is not and fails miserably. The film is a poor mash up of borrowed content and artificial intent.
If making a good movie is like crafting a statue out of stone, “Badmash Company” takes the Lego blocks assembly shortcut mashing together a few borrowed cons (some may faintly remind you of “Matchstick Men”, a Nicholas Cage starrer released in 2003) to churn out a wasteful effort. In fact, you suspect if any effort was involved at all in scheming up the story of four friends who try to make some fast money via dodgy means. Everything is a fair game – from sneakers to gloves to even the mortgage market – for our con artists extraordinaire led by Karan (Shahid Kapoor), who start with simple sneaker smuggling in a pre-liberalised India and then set their sights on pulling off cons in the Big Apple. How four ordinary Indians with seemingly little in terms of connections can pull such far fetched and ambitious heists is beyond comprehension.
Implausibility aside, the film appears too stylised (Yash Raj Films love their costumes and their locations grand and slick but you’d be surprised to see how glam pre-liberalisation India looked!) for you to be interested in the characters, who by the way are lazily etched anyway. The story is pretty predictable and the fact that our ‘Friends & Co.’ (that’s what the four dub themselves) touch everything from the mortgage market to the stock market besides getting Michael Jackson to start a fashion trend will make you want to yank your hair out. The acting is conspicuous by its absence; Meiyang Chang and Vir Das have too little screen time to really matter and Anushka Sharma is just about there. Shahid Kapoor tries to be all he is not and fails miserably. The film is a poor mash up of borrowed content and artificial intent.
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