Badmaash Company

Parmeet Sethi makes an impressive debut as a writer and directs the film with as much finesse and panache. Unlike Yash Raj’s earlier con flick Bunty aur Babli (to which this one was compared) where the hoodwinks were hurried, the conning here is very credibly and comprehensively crafted and doesn’t insult your intelligence.

It's everything that's fun about a conjob - the core idea, the wool-over-the-eyes, the joke at the victim's expense. Everyone gets their just desserts and surprisingly all ends well.

...a watchable experience for various reasons, the prime reason being it offers solid entertainment, but doesn't insult your intelligence.

...immensely watchable.

...may not be as buoyant as Bunty aur Babli, the original badmash couple in recent cinema, but it does make for some merry viewing.

...an extremely smart and smart-looking film. But its sassy all-knowing tone cannot hide a certain bankruptcy of genuinely inventive ideas.

Your money’s worth guaranteed. It’s fun, zippy and racy and only occasionally takes itself too seriously.

...is at its core a very 'Bollywood' film. Had much potential to be a mass entertainer, tragically though, the second half is a major let down.

...an easy watch.

The direction of Parmeet Sethi seems to be bogged down by poor writing. The same idea is repeated in the film and the audiences get irritated. Even Parmeet has not succeeded in bringing out the best out of his actors...

The picture’s premise is strong. The setting is solid. The scam’s quite awesome. The friends make for quite a foursome. All are equally endearing. As are their antics. And then the screen flashes, Interval. Everything dopily goes down a slope thereafter, and onward to America, arrogance and all that jazz.

Sethi's directorial debut starts out with cocksure confidence and zing but soon runs out of mischief, bonhomie, wizardry and pretty much everything else.

Begins well, there are some nice moments, but the second half gets way too moralistic.

Sethi’s film does little to emotionally engage the audience.

...is a proof that the Yash Raj Films formula is irrevocably broken.

Flogging the infamous Yash Raj Films formula of stylish costumes, gorgeous foreign locations and hip dance numbers, Sethi delivers a film that is entirely superficial and staggeringly dull.

Bunty Aur Babli for dummies!

Anything but this.

...has no meat. It's superfluous and at times has plots that are unbelievable.

It's hard to take this sort of film seriously, a film that lathers on the same lackluster ideas over and over again, expecting us to lap it up but actually beating us into stupor.