Company
Year: 2002
Runtime: 156 mins
Language: Hindi
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Mallik, a loyal henchman of Mumbai underworld kingpin Aslam Bhai, recruits the hot‑headed local Chandu into the organization. Together they rapidly forge a powerful faction that eclipses Aslam’s authority and seizes control of the empire. As their criminal empire expands, the partnership begins to fray, and Mallik and Chandu start drifting apart as their ambitions clash.
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Chandrakant ‘Chandu’ Nagre enters the Mumbai underworld, quickly learning the brutal trade and helping lift the gang’s profits, which earns him the regard of Malik, the gang’s ruthless leader who takes a liking to him.
Malik goes on a bloody rampage, killing rivals to cement his grip on the underworld. Inspector Rathod, who once tortured and abused Chandu in jail, is killed with Malik’s permission.
During the execution of a contract killing, Chandu and Malik clash over the target; Chandu stops the deliberate vehicle crash and falls from Malik’s favour, setting a dangerous rift between them.
The contract is taken out by a politician who tries to use Malik’s gang to eliminate a popular candidate for the Home Minister’s post. The assassination, a staged vehicle collision, goes ahead despite Chandu’s objections after Malik, no longer relying on him, gives direct orders.
The rift between Chandu and Malik widens. The Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police, Veerappalli Srinivasan uses the turmoil to bring the mafia under control.
Chandu and Malik become bitter enemies. After Chandu’s retaliation for Warsi’s murder—a lieutenant and Chandu’s lifelong friend—two factions of Mumbai’s once-powerful Company wage a full-scale war.
The war spills into Kenya, where Malik hires assassins to kill Chandu. Chandu is severely injured but survives.
Veerappalli Srinivasan persuades Chandu to return to Mumbai and fight the mafia by helping the police bring the organization under control.
Chandu kills the politician who ordered the contract killing, in prison.
The two men briefly reach a truce, but Chandu never withdraws his order to Koda Singh to kill Malik.
Koda Singh kills Malik at point-blank range in Hong Kong and is immediately arrested.
After the assassination, Sreenivasan notifies Chandu, who is shocked by the news. Chandu then spends the rest of his life in prison after being persuaded by Sreenivasan to surrender.
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