CupcakeLovesMuffin A mark goes off for length (lots of scenes could have been made shorter) and one goes off due to how predictable the movie is.Shahid Kapoor, Anuskha Sharma, Vir Das and Mi Yang Chang are four friends looking for a way to make money. They use different methods to get where they are, but what follows is the usual: lies, betrayal, dishonesty, and fights.Shahid Kapoor has acted extremely well. Note the scene at the restaurant. the way he explodes is just wow. Anushka Sharma is really likable as Bulbul and the pain she goes through. Vir Das acts well, especially in the emotional scenes.MiYang Chang handles the "cheeny" insults very interestingly, and especially towards the end where the two friends find out he's stopped drinking.As for songs, Ayaashi has a great video which makes you want to go shopping, at least in my case. Fakeera is a very good song which fits the situation perfectly. Chaska & Jingle Jingle are hummable. Overall, a worthwhile watch, good for some time-pass entertainment.

DICK STEEL Some may come to the conclusion, from the trailer alone, that this looks like 21 with the characters having spend time in Las Vegas probably scheming against the casinos in their get rick quick ploys, but the truth is much further than that. Credit has to go to actor turned first-time writer-director Parmeet Sethi who adopts the same glitzy look and feel of the Hollywood production, but steering clear into his own story, allowing the characters to rest and relax instead at Sin City, and hatching plans that even Danny Ocean will be proud of.The film opens in the mid 90s Bombay, and spends considerable time in the opening credits scenes with shots of the streets, setting the stage for Shahid Kapur's Karan, a bright young man whose plan is to make a lot of money, being quite averse to the life of an average salaryman like his father (Anupam Kher). Together with his friends Chandu (Vir Das) the womanizer and Zing (Chang Meiyang, from the 3rd season of Indian Idol) the drinker, they meet up with the attractive lass Bulbul Singh (Anushka Sharma) during one of their early forays into the smuggling business, and soon strike up a fast friendship, with Karan and Bulbul hitting it off extremely fast as a romantic couple.Taking the advice of big plans churning out big money, they form Friends & Company as their front for their get rich quick schemes, exploiting business and loopholes in the law, as well as society's innate corruption in order to get ahead on India's position on the cusp of a consumerism explosion. Karan hatches plan after plan for Kiran's Quartet to execute, which allows for plenty of montage opportunities where the players don different disguises and personae in order to cheat their way through their pathway to riches. And like yuppies, they spend as hard and play as hard, since at that age the sky's the limit, and the feeling of invulnerability is seductive.It's akin to Ocean's 11 with the mantra of greed being good, and the film examines how the excesses of money can influence and change relationships, and corrupt the inner soul of a man into thinking he's a god, especially when his ego gets super inflated, thinking that they are all nowhere without his ideas. Shahid Kapur shines in this transformation from rags to riches, and puts on quite the charismatic charm in order to pull off his schemes. In his Chance Pe Dance he plays a man looking for his big break, and here his Karan scores both the girl and the cash before ego gets in the way and begins that systematic destruction of what's dear to him.But being a Bollywood film, there's plenty of room in its 144 minutes to set things up and down, and made right again. The supporting cast also made this film a delight to sit through, with Anushka Sharma in only her second film outing after the highly successful Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and what more for a Bollywood film to have featured her first on-screen kiss with Shahid as well, which of course is a big thing besides having to don her obligatory bikini to frolic in pristine beaches. Being quite the clothes horse here, her role is a departure from the more demure one in her film debut, being a lot more joyful and playful, and hardly sulking.Credit too must go to the co-stars who make up the quartet, with Vir Das's Chandu given plenty of chances to get into disguises as he plays an integral field agent in their plan to pull the wool over their unsuspecting victims. But the one who will invariably get the attention is Chang Meiyang as Tanzing, or Zing. My only wish is that I can converse in Hindi as well as him, undoubtedly being the butt of most race related jibes (in good nature I must add), but holding his own just as well.Shot in India, Thailand and the USA, Badmaash Company's strengths lie in the chemistry amongst the main leads, as well as the little moments of nostalgia and cheeky references put in to good effect. It's not the perfect film, but it has plenty on offer especially when learning how to make it good while doing all the bad things, which at times does call for a certain stretch of the imagination to work, sprinkled with doses of humour in between the more exciting scenes of witnessing Karan's bold plans unfurl. Recommended!

harsh_trvd so guys I watched this movie on first day first show with a very low expectation because the director was new,cast was new(except shahid). i went to watch this movie because of yash raj banner.But when i came out of theater there was a big smile on my face because the movie was so good, it went above my expectations. this feeling was the opposite feeling of house when i had to say movie was good, but didn't want to because there was no movie in comparison so not only me but every people had to watch that movie.because there was no big movie that time. but in badmash company i got entertained. and there is not only a con job in the movie but there is a good message also.if you watch this movie,you wouldn't say that director is doing debut by this movie and this is his first script. hats off to director(parmeet sethi). shahid has done a great job in the film as well as other members of the cast.anushka is looking sooooo hot and idea of conning people is fresh(not copied from the Hollywood or some other film) this movie is far more better,superior,excellent than last week's release housefull. i watched this movie in 70 rs. but now i am regreting that i should've seen this movie in a red lounge or e-bony lounge which costs 350 or 400 but this movie worths that. i am going to see this movie again this Sunday but this time in red lounge. as a audience i guarantee you all that you won't get disappointed. two thumbs up for badmash company.

Mayank Sahu I wasn't thinking of watching this movie by seeing the trailer , but my brother insisted me to go and see this movie, so I decided to go. I was expecting same old bollywood flick type movie , but to my expectation it turned exactly opposite, We have to agree that director Parmeet Sethi has done a good job, we all have to agree that it really has some great cinematography .I could not say that this has a truly authentic original concept. but the presentation is not bad.This movie follow the same rule like those followed by Fashion , Victory , Jannat/21 and so on , the story outline is just simple a struggler/looser person tries to get success , then gets success . after that he/she is corrupted and looses all that they had. then some emotional scenes , after that they again try to succeed in their mission , and then finally succeed/fails.this same funda has been repeated here. but what makes this movie other from those is the acting of shahid and the cast. also it feels different than the class of movies nowadays bollywood is releasing.overall i would say that do watch this movie for a difference.