Corporate (2006)

Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.

Director:

Madhur Bhandarkar

Writers:

Madhur Bhandarkar (screenplay), Ajay Monga (screenplay)

Stars:

Bipasha Basu, Kay Kay Menon, Raj Babbar

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Bipasha Basu	...	Nishiganda Dasgupta
Kay Kay Menon	...	Ritesh Sahani
Raj Babbar	...	Dharmesh Marwah
Rajat Kapoor	...	Vinay Sehgal
Lillete Dubey	...	Devyani Bakshi
Harsh Chhaya	...	Naveen Shroff
Bharat Dabholkar	...	Joe Rajan
Sammir Dattani	...	Anmol Rawat
Achint Kaur	...	Chhaya V. Sehgal
Girish Oak	...	Central Finance Minister Ashwini Dayal
Sandeep Mehta	...	Pervez Merchant
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ashok Ahuja
Ajay
Ajit
Javed Akhtar	...	Himself

Storyline

There is no looking back for Vinay Sehgal and the Sehgal Group of Industries when their candidate is selected as the Central Finance Minister, and soon they are invited to Delhi to liaise with an international company to manufacture and distribute a bottling plant. Their competitors, the Marwah Group of Industries, led by Dharmesh Marwah, are dismayed, but manage to win the best entrepreneur award, and a state contract for bottling a mint-based soft drink. Vinay instructs his team to find out, by hook or crook, what the details are of this plan, and a senior employee, Nishigandha Dasgupta, uses her charms to seduce Sehgal's groups employee, Pervez Merchant, and gets the details from him. This gives Vinay the edge over Dharmesh and he quickly announces "Just Chill" a mint-based cold drink, and he hands over this project to his wife's brother, Ritesh Shahani, who is also the live-in spouse of Nishigandha. Watch what happens when Dharmesh finds out that about the leak in his Group, and ...

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Plot Keywords:

sex | power | political leader | part of trilogy | laptop | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Release Date:

7 July 2006 (India)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sahara One Motion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

142 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was considered for the lead role but the role eventually went to Bipasha Basu.

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Goofs

In a meeting between SGi officials and Finance Minister Gulabrao, Naveen informs him that Sehgal Groups employs 800,000 people. However, in the scene where Vinay Sehgal's wife is convincing Ritesh to put blame on Nishigandha, she says that Sehgal Groups employs 15,000 people.

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Connections

Follows Page 3 (2005)

User Reviews

The promos of the movie said money, power, politics, I would like to add one more thing to it - just forget it!!!

This is not a comparison of page 3 with Corporate. The point is that the director himself did not want to get out of the Page 3 model.

Madhur Bhandarkar is a very economic person, he won't waste things, so he kind of used the research left after making page 3. There is a repetition of scenes, like the one with the peons in the office, defining their own version of Corporate. Wait, does it remind you of Page 3, where drivers talked!!

Everybody talked about Bipasha's looks in the film but I thought her hair was tied so tightly that one can have a headache anytime and stop thinking with the head. Now I understand the logic behind Bipasha taking her decisions from her heart – it's the hair style which was kept in mind.

Certain scenes were kept for the sake of keeping them. Like the one where Mimisha, the aspiring corporate person and her lunch with her parents. One can't find a link to it. By the way what happened to Parvez, the informer? I think he should have been informed to take a revenge!! He disappeared suddenly! And Lillete Dubey has been wasted in the film. The film looked very crowded. There was no need of so many characters.

I think 'corporate' did the best for Rajat Kapur who was outstanding as the head of the company. Look I even forgot the name of the company! The characterization was good except for the choice of Raj Babbar. But the actors did not get a scope to perform to their abilities. For future projects, Bipasha and Kay Kay as a couple can be considered. I think the film badly needed a good editor!! The promos of the movie said money, power, politics, I would like to add one more thing to it - just forget it!!!