Review of Satya

Satya (1998)
10/10
One of the greatest films in the history of Indian Cinema.
7 July 2019
You Cannot watch Satya once.

The film is a work of genius and is a pure art.

I have seen this film so many times that now I have forgotten the counting.

Even if you begin watching Satya midway, you can't stop yourself from watching the entire film.

The film made by now defunct Ram Gopal Verma and written by Genius Saurabh Shukla and a new entrant, Anurag Kashyap was not shot in a typical film manner.

It was shot literally without a complete draft and most of the actors just improvised their roles.

A film becomes a good film when every character in the film is a memorable one.

Satya has that quality. There is not a single character in the entire film which won't leave you mesmerized by their performance in the film.

Even the actors with smaller roles leave an impact on you.

Satya is a story of a man named Satya, hence the movie name, who is new to Bombay and is looking for a job.

He is a man of few words and wouldn't tolerate anything wrong happening to him.

He is angry all the time and rarely smiles.

The character of Satya was inspired from the protagonist, Howard Roark of the Ayn Rand Novel "The fountainhead".

Kashyap was highly inspired by the novel gave the idea to Verma about introducing a character like Roark in the by lanes of Mumbai Crime world.

The film is so well connected and well made that at times you forget that you are watching a movie and feel that you are actually inside the the crime world.

You relate with characters and feel like you know them personally.

The characters of Bhiku Mahatre and his wife pyari are so well written that despite them fighting all the time, you fall in love with them.

The film is about power, betrayal, love, revenge, friendship and all under the background of Mumbai Crime world.

It was a silent hit at that time as there were no major stars in the film so no one was even expecting that but word of mouth soon caught up and people flocked to see this film.

The lead actor J.D. Chakravarthy was a side villain in Verma's first film Shiva and played his role to the perfection in the film.

I still can't see him any other role and feel that he was not an actor but Satya himself.

You cannot miss this film at any cost.
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