Badmaash Company(2010)
Badmaash Company is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language crime comedy drama film directed by Parmeet Sethi in his directorial debut. It stars Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Meiyang Chang, and Vir Das as four middle-class friends in 1990s Mumbai. The story follows their rise from a small smuggling operation to a high-stakes international con, and their eventual fall and redemption. The film was produced by Aditya Chopra under Yash Raj Films and features music by Pritam. It received mixed reviews but was a commercial success, grossing ₹530 million worldwide. The film is available for streaming on various platforms.
Quick Facts
- Streaming on
- Netflix
- Theatrical Release
- 7 May 2010
- Director
- Parmeet Sethi
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Rating
- 6.2/10
Storyline
Four middle-class friends in 1990s Mumbai start a smuggling business to get rich quick. Their scheme grows into a massive international con, but greed and lies tear them apart. Can they find their way back to each other and build an honest life?
“Big ideas, bigger risks, second chances.”
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Reunion Meter
Frequent partnerships reunited for Badmaash Company
Cast reunions in this film: Shahid Kapoor & Pritam Chakraborty (7 films together), Anupam Kher & Aditya Chopra (6 films together), Anupam Kher & Shahid Kapoor (4 films together), Anupam Kher & Pritam Chakraborty (4 films together), Anushka Sharma & Aditya Chopra (4 films together), and Aditya Chopra & Pritam Chakraborty (4 films together).
Trivia
- The film's title 'Badmaash Company' was inspired by a real-life group of con artists operating in the 1990s.
- Shahid Kapoor learned to play the saxophone for his role, though most of his scenes playing it were cut from the final film.
- This was the directorial debut of actor Parmeet Sethi, best known for his role in the classic film 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'.
- The movie underperformed at the box office, failing to recover its production budget despite a popular soundtrack.
- A key song, 'Fakeera', was originally composed for another Yash Raj Films project but was later included in this film.
- The film's plot of exploiting import duty loopholes was loosely based on real scams from India's economic liberalization era.
- Anushka Sharma's character was written to be a central part of the heist team, a less common role for female leads in Bollywood crime films at the time.