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Satya is a film of genre Drama directed by Ram Gopal Varma released in USA on 3 july 1998 with J. D. Chakravarthy
Satya (1998)
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Add to a movie listSatya (lit. "Truth") is a 1998 Indian Hindi crime film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma, with screenplay-dialogues by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap. The film stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpai, Urmila Matondkar and Shefali Shah. The first film of the Indian Gangster Trilogy, tells the story of Satya, an immigrant who comes to Mumbai seeking his fortune but instead gets sucked into the Mumbai underworld. The film was show cased among the Indian panorama section, at the 1998 International Film Festival of India, the Fribourg International Film Festival, Switzerland, and the New York Asian Film Festival. The film was
listed among CNN-IBN's 100 greatest Indian films of all time. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies included Satya in its list of 25 Must See Bollywood Movies.
Made on a shoestring budget of INR 20 million Satya became a surprise hit at the box office of 1998. The film went on to win six Filmfare Awards, including the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, four Star Screen Awards and Bollywood Movie Award – Best Director. Satya has been referred to as a modern masterpiece and it was considered one of the best films of the 1990s. It is also considered one of the best gangster films of all time. Film critic Rajeev Masand has labeled it (along with its sequel Company) one of the "most influential movies of the past ten years." 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 Varma is the acknowledged master. The film Satya 2 isn't a sequel to Satya. However, it is the fourth installment of the Gangster Trilogy.
Synopsis
Mumbai is in the midst of a turf war between two gangs, collectively referred to as the Mumbai underworld when Satya (J.D Chakravarthy), a man without a past, comes to the city looking for employment. While waiting tables at the local dance bar, he gets involved in a scuffle with Jagga (Jeeva), bag man for dreaded don Guru Narayan (Raju Mavani). Jagga takes his revenge by getting Satya arrested on false charges of pimping. In jail, Satya clashes with yet another member of Mumbai's mafia, underworld don Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Bajpai), who is in prison pending trial for the murder of a prominent film producer. Mhatre, pleased with Satya's bravado, extends a hand of friendship and arranges for his release as well as accommodation. With Mhatre's help, Satya avenges himself by gunning down Jagga in the very same dance bar and joins Mhatre's gang.Actors
J. D. Chakravarthy
(Satya)
Urmila Matondkar
(Vidya)
Sushant Singh
(Pakya)
Manoj Bajpayee
(Bhiku Mhatre)
Paresh Rawal
(Commissoner Amod Shukla)
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