Worse still, the script (into which Sethi has made a debut foray) plays a total spoilsport. While Badmaas Company tries to create a spark through its superhero soirees, the screenplay utterly disappoints the audiences.
Though the first hour of the film rolls smoothly, the second- half is barely a litany of corny fantasies. A piece of advice: Shetti should abstain from multitasking, especially scriptwriting, to avoid another disaster in future.
Though a promising actor, the plot doesn’t give Shahid Kapoor much room to create the spell of “Jab We Met” and “Kaminey”.
Karan (Sahid Kapoor) is a management graduate who wants to live his own dreams and not become what his father (Anupam Kher) wants him to be -- a 9 to 5 employee at a private company. Instead, Karan’s friends Chandu (Vir Das), Zing (Meiyang Chang) and Bulbul (Anushka Sharma) join hands with Karan to start their business under the banner of Friends and Company. And the rest is run-of-the mill story of a predictable thriller.
After Ranbir Kapoor’s recent release “Rocket Singh”, Badmaas Company comes ahead as another management lesson for the students of commerce, albeit a misleading one. First, both the flicks encourage commerce graduates to make mullah any which way and later clear the mess for the rest of their lives.
What evokes a sense of deja vu is that the graduates in both the flicks are a bunch of duds. Surprisingly, they are smart enough pull off a bank heist without letting the staff know about it.
The skyscrapers, exotic pubs, beaches and casinos of Bangkok and the US don’t make up for the loopholes in the plot. If the film holds together, it is only for the performance of actors, who persist on perking up the audiences even when there’s nothing to offer.
Being Screened at Jai Nepal Cinema Hall.
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