Company is a 2002 Indian crime-thriller film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma and screenplay by Jaideep Sahni, starring Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Vivek Oberoi, and Antara Mali. It is a fictional exposé of the Mumbai underworld, loosely based on the Indian mafia organization D-Company, known to be run by Dawood Ibrahim. The film received positive reviews from critics as well as audience and won six out of the eleven awards it was nominated for at the Filmfare Awards. The film was a blockbuster and got critical acclaim at the 2004 Austin Film Festival and New York Asian Film Festival It is the second film in the Gangster sequel to the blockbuster Satya (followed by 'D.'). The film marked the introduction of a new genre of film making, a variation of film noir that has been called Mumbai noir, of which Ram Gopal Varma is the acknowledged master. Wikipedia