Corporate (2006)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Madhur Bhandarkar

Writers:

Madhur Bhandarkar (screenplay)
Madhur Bhandarkar (story)

Release Date:

7 July 2006 (India)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

There is no looking back for Vinay Sehgal and the Sehgal Group of Industries when their candidate is selected as the Central Finance Minister...

Plot Keywords:

Actor Playing Himself | Sex | Corporate Executive | Business Rivalry | Business Ethics

Awards:

1 nomination

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 Sehgal
Girish Oak	...	Central Finance Minister Ashwini Dayal
Sandeep Mehta	...	Pervez Merchant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Javed Akhtar	...	Himself
Vinay Apte	...	State Finance Minister Gulabrao Ingle
G.K. Desai	...	Man Friday
Kevin Green
Prahlad Kakar	...	Himself
Atul Kulkarni	...	Narrator
Minissha Lamba	...	Megha Apte
Shweta Menon	...	Archana
Anil Nagrath	...	Balu - Payal's Agent
Alan Nelson
Ashok Pandit	...	Himself
Brinda Parekh	...	Call Girl in Bar
Navni Parihar	...	Dharmesh Marwah's wife
Rhea Pillai	...	Archana
Payal Rohatgi
Mukesh Tyagi	...	Mukesh

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Company:

Percept Picture Company

Trivia:

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

Movie Connections:

Followed by Traffic Signal (2007)

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!!!