Another rather dark movie from the Madhur Bhandarkar stable.

Like its predecessors -- Chandni Bar examined gang warfare and bar dancers and Page 3 society types -- Corporate takes a realistic look at contemporary issues.

The film was inspired by the pesticide issue that caught cola majors on the back foot.

Many movies deal with corporate greed. But this one does a great job showcasing a modern executive who pays a giant price for her ambition. It portrays, rather cynically, the corporate world as being hand in hand with power brokers like politicians, godmen and stock traders.

Do you believe we live in a world where justice is not impartial and the rich getting away with breaking the law? This film will cast that belief into stone.

In Corporate Raj Babbar and Rajat Kapoor are rivals -- one a traditional Indian conservative and the other a modern golf playing businessman. Bipasha Basu is excellent as a smart, ambitious career woman who ends up being the pawn in a larger game managed by the power brokers.

The movie has its weaknesses: a slow build up. Also the director's cameo role, which takes pot shots at the rich, is not exactly funny. But it examines issues very relevant in a rapidly industrialising world we live in.

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