Monday, July 10, 2006

"Corporate" Blunder



Cola War, Pesticides, NGO oppositions.......
Seems like newspaper headlines some months back? Well they are, but they also form the storyline of "Corporate" - the latest Madhur Bhandarkar film.
I generally do not like analysing Hindi film - few have anything to analyze :-), But well of those few which deserve analysis are Madhur Bhandarkar's "Page 3" and "Chandni Bar".
So why do I analyse Corporate. 3 reasons-
  1. Its a Madhur Bhandarkar film - expected to be well researched like its predecessors
  2. Its about the Corporate world of which I am a part of
  3. I sacrificed the first half of the World cup Finals to watch it...

Well I actually summarised the story in the first sentence of the blog. However here goes a breif Intro -- Its about two giant cola companies Marwah group lead by Raj Babbar and SGI lead by Rajat Kapoor. Its about their war to oust one another. Seems interesting but trust me this cola has no Fizz.... Its unbelievable and at times has childish errors. Anyway the story goes on that SGI launches pesticides laden mint-based cola stealing plans from Marwah. Marwah seeks revenge for stealing his plans, launches a political and media slander campaign on the pesticide content. MArwah and SGI make truce under political pressures and Bipasha the VP of SGI is made the scape-goat and sent to jail.

So now some funny moments in the movie. Bipasha the VP of SGI wants to steal the marketing plan of a "Mint-based cola!!!!!"from rival groups CEO . So she uses a Prostitute to get him in bed and while he sleeps... steals the plan from his laptop. Two funny moments

  1. I wonder who gave her the login to his laptop.. i guess the prostitute asked that i between the ummms..aaah and moans...;-)
  2. The presentation made by the CEO of cola company was ---- GROSS and he deserved to be kicked out just for his bad presentation skills if not the hooker habit.

Some illogical logics...(thats a Sammyism.. 'cause Hindi Cinema need not have logical logics)

  1. Why does the VP of a company go behind Bars and keep on fighting the case indiviually for 2 yrs while the Board of directors is left scott free.
  2. Why is the VP charged under Section 304 of IPC - which is for mass murder when the movie makes no reference of someone having died of drinking the mint drink?
  3. Can someone sign the affidavit stating I take sole responsibility of some organisational error which the court will acknowledge and let everyone else scott free?.

Poor Kenneth Lay (Enron fame) had he lived a little longer and seen Madhurs "Corporate" I am sure he would have appointed him as his lawyer and gone scott free......

I think all in all there is one dialogue in the film itself which describes the "Corporate Blunder"

"Jo kaam ek aadmi kar sakta hai... jab 50 log table par baith kar karte hain.. aur kharaab karte hain - usey Corporate kehte hain".

2 comments:

manish said...

Awesome review ,you certainly have an eye for details !!

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