Company Limited is an impeccable ideological tract detailing the exact price in human dignity and decency to be paid for a stake in the corridors of power. As always with Ray, the message is all the better and richer for being conveyed obliquely…. [The] secret motivation of Company Limited is the mournful yearning of Chekhov's characters, not this time for the seemingly unattainable city but for the 'provincial' life that has been lost…. Company Limited may not have the exquisite formal perfection of Days and Nights in the Forest, but it is considerably more successful than The Adversary in filtering the political demands of a situation which, as Ray says, "you feel every moment of the day in Calcutta", through the prism of his own vision. (p. 52)

Tom Milne, "Feature Films: 'Seemabaddha' ('Company Limited')," in Monthly Film Bulletin (copyright © The British Film Institute, 1974), Vol. 41, No. 482, March, 1974, pp. 51-...