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Satya (Hindi: सत्या; lit. "Truth") is a 1998 Hindi crime film directed by Ram Gopal Varma with a screenplay by Anurag Kashyap and Saurabh Shukla. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpai, Urmila Matondkar and Shefali Shah. The film 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. Made on a shoestring budget of INR 2 croreSatya became a surprise hit at the box office grossing INR 15.5 crore and becoming the 10th highest grossing Indian film 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.
Mumbai is in the midst of a turf war between many 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.
A young man named Satya (J.D Chakravarthy) comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Bajpai) in jail and joins his gang. He lives in a poor neighborhood, where he meets, Vidya (Urmila Matondkar), who lives next door. She is not aware of his underworld connections. Satya slowly rises up the ranks of his gang, and becomes the most influential person. Satya is torn between his girlfriend and his gangster life.
Keywords: anger, anti-hero, arrest, bar, beating, betrayal, blood, blood-splatter, character-name-in-title, contract-killing
Actors: Ayush Nagpal (producer), Divij Roopchand (writer), Divij Roopchand (director), Ayush Nagpal (editor), Vasundhara Sinha (producer), Radhika Bhalla (actress), Diya Roopchand (producer), Abhijit Gupta (actor),
Plot: On this roller coaster ride that is their last night together, Ria and Satya nearly fall off a balcony, get chased by a watchman and even dance on top of a table. The two young lovers find themselves standing on a burning platform having to choose between long distance love and breaking up. Inspired by a moment of madness, Satya convinces Ria to leave it up to chance. They play a game. If Ria wins they break up, If Satya wins they stay together. Will Ria win or will Satya? The answer is set in stone.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Shobi Paulraj (miscellaneous crew), Cesar (miscellaneous crew), Hema (actress), Martand K. Venkatesh (editor), Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Bosco (miscellaneous crew), Prakash Raj (actor), Suneel (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), J.D. Chakravarthi (actor), Sandeep Chowta (composer), Surya (actor), Savita Reddy (miscellaneous crew), Harshavardhan (actor), Nixon (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Satya is a college student. He discontinues his graduation studies in Vizag and comes to Hyderabad in search of a job. He runs into a fight with local college students who are influenced by political mafia leader Durga Rao (JD Chekravarthy). Satya tries to change the students but fails. Then he joins in the college to cleanse the system. The main plot of the movie is how Satya changes the students and their behavior.
Genres: Family,Actors: Peter Lohmeyer (actor), Jürgen Vogel (actor), Charly Hübner (actor), Sven Pippig (actor), Christina Große (actress), Karim Sebastian Elias (composer), Thomas Kügel (actor), Christoph Hofrichter (actor), Nicole Stoll (costume designer), Henny Reents (actress), Hannu Salonen (director), Julia Oehring (editor), Nina Klamroth (producer), Camilla Søeberg (actress), Kristin Derfler (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Swarup Nayak (composer), Harihara Mahapatra (actor), Siddhant Mahapatra (actor), Bijoy Mohanty (actor), Hara Patnaik (actor), Jairam Samal (actor), Mihir Das (actor), Aparajita Mohanty (actress), S.K. Muralidharan (miscellaneous crew), Snigdha Mohanty (actress), Sushant Mani (miscellaneous crew), Basant Sahu (director), Basant Sahu (writer), Bijoy Kandoi (producer), Bijoy Kandoi (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Brahmanandam (actor), Srinivasa Rao Kota (actor), K. Raghavendra Rao (producer), K. Raghavendra Rao (writer), M.M. Keeravani (composer), Venkateswara Rao Kotagiri (editor), Rajeev Kanakala (actor), Rajeev Kanakala (actor), C. Ashwini Dutt (producer), Junior N.T.R. (actor), S.S. Rajamouli (director), Gajala (actress), Pruthvi Raj (writer),
Plot: Aditya lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Aurangabad along with dad - Raghav, mom - Laxmi, and sister, Swati. His dad wants him to be a lawyer, but Aditya wants to be an Engineer. Arguments ensue at home and get complicated when Aditya confesses that he has killed a man named Shekhar who had abducted and was molesting a woman named Lalita. Raghav asks him to leave, Aditya surrenders to the Police, who arrest him after Lalita refuses to recognize him, and he is sentenced to life in prison initially in Aurangabad and then transferred to Vishakhapatnam. He decides to study law, and gets permission to get admitted in R.N.R. College where he finds out that unruly elements, led by Satish, rule the roost and prevent students from studying. He decides to confront Satish, makes him mend his way, while he becomes a hero and gets undivided attention from attractive Anjali. Then things gets complicated when Satish decides to forcibly woo Anjali and even threatens to throw acid on her body, the students find out about Aditya's criminal background, and Raghav himself gets arrested for leaking examination papers and accepting a bribe, is arrested and housed in the same jail as his son.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,Actors: Ram Gopal Varma (producer), Saurabh Shukla (writer), Urmila Matondkar (actress), Neeraj Vora (actor), Saurabh Shukla (actor), Anurag Kashyap (writer), Govind Namdeo (actor), Jeeva (actor), Sanjay Mishra (actor), Manoj Bajpayee (actor), Makrand Deshpande (actor), Anupam Shyam (actor), Paresh Rawal (actor), Ram Gopal Varma (director), Vishal Bhardwaj (composer),
Plot: A young man named Satya (J.D Chakravarthy) comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Bajpai) in jail and joins his gang. He lives in a poor neighborhood, where he meets, Vidya (Urmila Matondkar), who lives next door. She is not aware of his underworld connections. Satya slowly rises up the ranks of his gang, and becomes the most influential person. Satya is torn between his girlfriend and his gangster life.
Keywords: anger, anti-hero, arrest, bar, beating, betrayal, blood, blood-splatter, character-name-in-title, contract-killingActors: Anjana Mumtaz (actress), Mihir Das (actor), Bijoy Mohanty (actor), Hara Patnaik (actor), Runu Parija (actress), Jogi Sena (costume designer), Deben Mitra (editor), Sritam Das (actor), Arabinda (actor), Nizam (writer), Basudeb Tripathy (writer), Basudeb Tripathy (producer), Soumen Pujari (actor), Jitendra Mahapatra (director), Jitendra Mahapatra (writer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Sadashiv Amrapurkar (actor), Suresh Chatwal (actor), Jack Gaud (actor), Govinda (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Manik Irani (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Jeetendra (actor), Satish Kaushik (actor), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Shiva Rindani (actor), Moushumi Chatterjee (actress), Kimi Katkar (actress), Anand Chitragupth (composer), Mandakini (actress),
Plot: A single mother, Geeta, must deal with her two sons, the elder a Police Inspector Suryapratap; while the younger, Satya, a hoodlum, when both get into conflicts. Things only get worse after Satya gets arrested, arguments ensue and he leaves. He gets hired by Sheshnaag for the sole purpose of exacting vengeance against his rival, Deva. Both brothers are fated to meet again when Suryapratap decides to accumulate evidence to arrest Deva. Neither of the brothers know that Deva has an alias, and is determined to thwart any attempt for revenge nor face any charges under the Indian Penal Code.
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,Actors: R.B. Mehta (miscellaneous crew), Utpal Dutt (actor), Rabindranath Tagore (writer), Jahar Roy (actor), Gyanesh Mukherjee (actor), Ritwik Ghatak (actor), Ritwik Ghatak (director), Ritwik Ghatak (composer), Ritwik Ghatak (writer), Subrata Sensharma (actor), Ramesh Joshi (editor), Partha Pratim Chowdhury (actor), Bijon Bhattacharya (actor), Satindra Bhattacharya (actor), Shyamal Ghoshal (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Renuka Roy (actress), Dulal Dutta (editor), Satyajit Ray (director), Satyajit Ray (composer), Satyajit Ray (writer), Robi Ghosh (actor), Haridhan Mukherjee (actor), Satya Banerjee (actor), Mani Srimani (actor), Dilip Bose (actor), Santosh Dutta (actor), Nirmal Ghosh (actor), Shailen Ganguli (actor), Santi Chatterjee (actor), Prasad Mukherjee (actor),
Plot: A retired lawyer meets a holy man # Birinchi Baba (Charuprakash Ghosh) and his assistant (Robi Ghosh) # on his way back from a pilgrimage # and is totally taken in by his supernatural life. The holy man is on first name terms with Buddha and all the gods of the Hindu pantheon. What the world calls 'Cruci-fiction' he calls 'Cruci-fact' because he has seen it with his own eyes! He even starts giving orations to an audience of the rich and famous at the lawyer's residence. The gullible lawyer decides to get his entire family initiated into the guru's fold # including his unmarried younger daughter (Gitali Roy) who is being courted by a young man (Satindra Bhattacharya). His group of intelligent and rationalist friends (Somen Bose et al) decide to take matters in their own hands # and hatch a plot to expose the smooth-talking charlatan.
Genres: Comedy,Seeing all the vanity
Rituals leaving children blind
Breeding delusive
Confusing the ancient's way of life
Seeking for their sanity
Living life with irony
It's one thing to be free from sin
And one thing to be the sin itself
Truth reveals nothing more but self
Killing all subjective holiness
Racing time ascension will take place
Granting fruits for actions made
Moving through the ageless void
Confirmed by our ignorance
Why can't we absolve our fears?
To let go and embrace our own beings.
Truth reveals nothing more but self
Killing all subjective holiness
Racing time ascension will take place
Granting fruits for actions made
To reveal the secrets
we must invoke the seeds within
conquering all our battles lifting the
awareness in man
Truth reveals nothing more but self
Killing all subjective holiness
Racing time ascension will take place
Granting fruits for actions made.