Bollywood can throw up some surprises and there was one in store in the month of May with Shahid Kapoor getting a well deserved success in the form of 'Badmaash Company'. Till the day of the film's release, many in the industry doubted if it would manage to even break even. However, as things stand today, junta has given a Thumbs-Up to the film with the first week collections boasting of a bountiful 21 crores. This is the second best start ever for Shahid Kapoor whose 'Kaminey' had opened better than 'Badmaash Company' last week. However, the budget here is half of what 'Kaminey' would have cost which means that there are celebrations galore for Shahid Kapoor.
HQ Photo - Anuskha Sharma
However, let's pause and see what the film has done for Yash Raj Films. After having put big money on the likes of Ranbir Kapoor (Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year) and Priyanka Chopra (Pyaar Impossible), both of which were loosing prepositions, the production house has finally hit the right notes with an unassuming 'Badmaash Company'. One can be sure that even they would have been left a little surprise with the run of this film which is much more than just an average box office fare that they would have possibly bargained for.
'Badmaash Company' , Shahid Kapoor as Karan, Anushka Sharma as Bulbul
With no competition in the second week, 'Badmaash Company' is all set to add on some more moolah and comfortably cross the 30 crore mark in it's lifetime run. In addition, it also marks the arrival of debutant director Parmeet Sethi who has scored a boundary in his very first attempt.
'Badmaash Company' , Shahid Kapoor as Karan, Anushka Sharma as Bulbul
This brings me to one of the worst films ever made in the current decade - 'It's A Wonderful Afterlife'. No wonder, majority of audience which bothered to check out the film shared similar sentiments and results were there to be seen as this Gurinder Chadha's directed strange fiction tale disappeared from theaters in one week flat. With both English as well as Hindi version of the film being totally rejected and struggling to gain even 1 crore at the box office, the film's failure shows that audience is least concerned about people behind the making the film (in this case NRIs) if the promo and the storyline doesn't sound exciting. In case of 'It's A Wonderful Afterlife', it was only the worst case scenario with the film only ending up scaring away the audience, leave aside failing to excite them.
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Shahid Kapoor as Karan, Anushka Sharma as Bulbul, Meiyang Chang as Zing and Vir Das as Chandu are the leading casts of Badmaas Company 2010 movie. Anupam Kher, Kiran Juneja, Pavan Malhotra and Jameel Khan are also perfect characters of Badmaas Company 2010 film.
'Badmaash Company' , Shahid Kapoor as Karan, Anushka Sharma as Bulbul
It is not the first movie which based on bluffing and making money. We already have watched Bunty Aur Babli, Bluffmaster and Guru in this series. Despite it, Badmaash Company movie has the contemporary theme and story.
The movie introduces new style of making money. Quick money and getting richer is the basic essence of Badmaash Company Hindi movie. The movie has tried to say that the big business starts with a big idea rather than the resources. There should be the right way to do all the wrong things. Name of the movie is based on a group of bad guys – Badmaas Company. It is one of the big budgeted Hindi movies after Housefull movie.
HQ Photo - Anuskha Sharma, Shahid
