Film Review:- Satya

Film Review:- Satya

Release Year:-1998

Release Date:-03.07.1998

Directed by:- Ramgopal Varma

Producer:- Ramgopal Varma

Written by:- Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla

Starcast:- J D Chakravarthy

                  Manoj Vajpayee

                  Saurabh Shukla

                 Shefali Shah

               

Story:- Satya( J D Chakravarthy ) comes to Mumbai to find the Job. After looking for a while in the unknown city he joins as a waiter in the dance bar. During the duty, he meets some local goons attack him for some of the minor reasons. This leads a tit for a tat fight between Satya and local goons Pakya ( Sushant Singh). This makes Satya's life much miserable which leads him to the jail. Inside the Jail, he meets the Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Vajpayee). Satya and Mhatre fight with each other inside the jail. Mhatre provokes Satya inside the jail. Being impressed with the strength and the attitude of Satya, Bhiku Mhatre arranges a Lawyer to release him from the jail. They both come out of jail and they form their independent criminal gang and they start their activities. These activities keep on going and it ends further in an ugly way.

Satya is one of the best cinema in the crime genre by the Ramgopal Varma. The 1992-1996 year was the time when Mumbai was flooded with criminal killings, criminal gangs and shooting activities. Beginning of Satya was much interesting. At a certain time when RGV was sitting with one of the producers in the office some morning in Mumbai. He heard the real shoot of the Gulshan Kumar done in the Mumbai. This incident had shocked the entire film Industry. But this didn’t shock the RGV. This incident triggered his creative mind which later resulted in the birth of Satya.

The film is been shot in a very different manner. RGV trusted his instincts and his actor's instinct and shooting continued. Many of the scenes were not even written fully but they were shot on the intensity and flow of the acting of the actors. In some scenes, Ramgopal Varma forgot to say the cut in which actors improved the scenes and dialogues which even were not included in the script. Many incidents in the movie are based on real criminals life. RGV also says that we cannot predict who is the criminal man in our daily life. He could be a norman guy or he could be some other.

Location on which the scenes were been shot adds much more USP to the story. The  Chaupati, Chall and the monsoon season of the Mumbai.

Each character is strongly written by the writers Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla. Cold-blooded Satya; Spontaneous Bhiku Mhatre and the man who pretends to be someone and who is someone Kallu Mama is based  on the real-life incidents of RGV.

Music in the movie is again a masterpiece. Even in some scenes, we feel the criminal feeling in the background music. The songs “ Goli Maar Bheje me” tells the way of celebration of the criminals. The other song “ Pani” shows the real monsoon reason from Mumbai City.

Speaking about the characters all the characters are the best along with the director and the writer.

#Dont miss the Classic of the RGV#

#He should come back with such movies with strong scripts and character#

#5 stars#

#Say no to piracy#

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#Kaushik Shrotri#