Company creates magic
 Company's
magic is mesmerizing
Due to the
similar milieu, Company was talked of as the sequel to the
cult movie Satya. Of course there have been denials. The
director justified it thus: there was much I could not show in
Satya. And I needed to get them out of my system. I did it
with Company. Asked again if there could be a third part to
the series, and he replies 'not for a long time'. Which means that
there could be. I can wait for such a relish.
Just eight days
before watching Company, I had watched another movie.
Black Hawk down had won two Oscars (Best Editing and Sound),
and as I walked out the hall, I felt such an inferiority
complex. I felt that not in a hundred years could the Indian
directors come to directing such a movie- and I felt assured that
it was not just a question of money or technology. They were not
just up to it. And I was dreading another visit to the hall. I was
assured that it would be the greatest of anti-climax. Fortunately,
Company wasn't an anti-climax. Suddenly Bollywood was
making so many good films: Lagaan, Monsoon wedding,
Dil chahta hai and now this.
Getting to the
hall was such a difficult task. All tickets were sold out for the
second show even before the Current counter opened. I could easily
perceive a plot of selling out to the blackers (perhaps a ploy of
the distributors)- how could all the tickets be sold out for a
film's only second show! Inside the hall I found that the house
was really House Full. We got seats in the second row. Our only
regret remained that we had to watch such a superior film in such
inferior surroundings (you know, the lungi public. One of
them spit on our backs!). The film started before time. And by the
time we settled on our seats, we could see sexy Urmilla dancing
and prancing around in a red world.
I could tell
you so much about Ramu and Urmilla, about Ramu's earlier films
(especially Rangeela), give you so much information about
Company (which I read from the Internet and the
newspapers), but then this web diary is a repository of
impressions. No one is going to forget this film, as no one has
forgotten Satya. Ramu has risen to the immortal's category.
Even if he does not make any more films, he would be long
remembered.
Dated:
April 14, 2002
|
