Satya - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts



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  • Scene where Satya is spotted in a theater while watching the film Border 1997 and cops come to arrest him after getting a tip.Satya fires a bullet in cinema hall in order to escape which causes stampede loosing many lives. This particular scene was inspired from the tragedy of Uphhar Cinema in Delhi On 13 June 1997.When fire broke out during the show of Border which caused many lives due to stampede

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  • . The friendship theme from 'Satya' is copied from 'Once upon a time in America.

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  • S. Bhattacharya was the music arranger and had composed the background score of RGV's film Rangeela. Impressed with his work, RGV offered him Satya (just score, songs were added later). This was the same time Pramod Chakravorty offered him (songs and score). Although Barood was a bigger budget film with big stars, Bhattacharya liked the plot of Satya better, so he chose the latter. In the end, Barood bombed at the box office, while Satya was a massive success.

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  • Iconic dialog from the film Mumbai Ka King Kaun Bhiku Mhatre.While shooting the scene Manoj Bajpai really had a hard time due to fear of height.Manoj Bajpai had to stand at the edge on the high rocks and utter his dialog.Manoj Bajpai would do it perfectly but upon reaching on the rocks he would forget his dialog fearing he might fall.Finally he was tied up with rope and made to climb the rocks but due to heavy winds He would again forget the dialog.Director Rm Gopal Verma then told him to climb on the rocks and say what ever comes to his mind and he would later dub the line sin dubbing session.Manoj Bajpai finally climbed the rocks and shouted Muje Yaha Se Neeche Utara Muje Yaha Se Neeche Utara (take me down from here take me down from here).The original dialog was later dubbed in dubbing session.

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  • On the film's title, Ram Gopal Varma said that he named it Satya for two reasons: one being a homage to Ardh Satya and the other one was a namesake girl whom he used to love in college who did not love him back.

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  • After seeing the film, Shah Rukh Khan told J.D. Chakravarthy that if "you want to ruin this film, you should replace yourself with me in it".

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  • The scene in the beginning of the film where Manjrekar and Bappu murder a film producer on a busy street was shot on a set; the street was created inside the studio, with parked cars belonging to the film crew.

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  • Manoj Bajpayee had never met any gangster in his life and was not good in speaking Marathi language, although he was playing a Marathi character. He then decided to first work on his external look and grew a beard, a heavy face and curly hair. He took suggestions from his maid on how to get the nuances of the Marathi accent and worked on the character for three to four months before filming began.

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  • The first cinematographer was the American Gerard Hooper, recommended to Varma by Kannan Iyer (who had written Daud).Hooper roamed Mumbai, filming the city even when no shooting was scheduled.However, he could not devote enough time to the project and left when it was thirty percent complete. Mazhar Kamran was the cinematographer for the rest of the film.According to the writer Shukla, the film was shot on celluloid with "very low-light" and "low aperture."

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  • Anurag Kashyap stated "There never was a bound script..i did not write the whole film..nobody did..there is a whole lot of myth surrounding the film..it happened..like every other great film..like sholay happened..no individual created Satya..passion did..most of which came from ramu..his being open to moments, ideas, to instincts, created it..it was a different time..it was a different Ramu.. How it began..Ramu was making Daud..there was a new actor he was working with..it was manoj bajpai..i was there when he took that shot of Paresh going crazy and Manoj appearing from behind the door..Ramu fell in love with the shot..he fell in love with the actor..he fell in love with his intensity..he wanted to make an underworld film with him..he wanted to put Howard Roark in the underworld..thats how Satya started..I met him..Manoj introduced him to me..i was supposed to be writing a film for Mahesh Bhatt which never got made..it was called GIRVI..Ramu asked me "have i read fountainhead..i had..i was an ayn rand fanatic then..i was twenty three..i said "yeah"..he said lets put him in the underworld..i said "wow"..he also had an ending in mind which he remembered from some James Hadley Chase novel..that ending remained..Howard Roark didn't..i started working on it ..he asked me how much money i wanted..i didn't give a fuck about money..then..so i said "whatever'..we began work..whatever we wrote was not ther in the final film..anyways..after we started work Ramu left for Newzealand to shoot songs for DAUD..he disappeared from my life for two months..i thought this is not going nto happen..it was november 1996..February i got a call from him.. no mobile phones at that time..i had a pager..he paged me..he was serious..we made a one line order..Ramu has always worked with an one line order..never a script..this time he wanted a script..i still remember that first one line order..the opening scene was to be shot under the Milan subway..it never happened..after the one line order was locked in..he wanted it to be written..he didn't trust me with dialogues..he thought i was too young for it..he met vijay tendulkar for it..Ramu has been a fan of his since ardhasatya..Vijay tendulkar wasn't well..he wanted someone more mature..those days alot of people were talking about how Saurabh Shukla had done dialogues for ISS RAAT KI SUBAH NAHIN..saurabh has always brushed it off as just rumour..i had heard that too..but i knew him as a sometime playwrite from Delhi..i spoke about him to Ramu..Ramu offered him a double deal..to play Kallu Mama and write dialogues along with me .. he was to be the boss in that department..we were sent to Hyderabad..on his farmhouse..Ramu's..At the Mumbai airport saurabh arrived late..he had the tickets..we missed the flight..we took the next one..we worked more than a week ..we wrote something that looked and sounded like a script..we went back..we started shooting..we began in Goregaon with the chase sequence..the beginning chase..Gerard Hooper was the cameraman..i think i am jumping ahead..lets go back to naming the characters and casting..but later..have a shoot in the morning..imagine doing this in the middle of my shoot..probably because i met Ramu today..later..".

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  • The look of music director Ronu Saagar was inspired by that of S. Bhattacharya.

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  • Ram Gopal Verma wanted Vijay Tendulkar to write the dialog but he wasn't able to work on the film.

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  • Satya was part of the Indian Panorama section at the 1998 International Film Festival of India.

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  • When asked why he did not cast famous actors for the lead roles, Varma stated he needed actors who had no set image in the public's mind. He needed unknown actors to make the film look real.

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  • Anurag Kashyap stated "Saurabh and me wrote a draft..he was simultaneously writing a play called KAAL..after we finished we came back to bombay..another thing i forgot to tell you..when saurabh met Ramu for the first time and Ramu narrated him what he had in mind..Saurabh spontanously came up with that scene where bhiku comes back home drunk and shefali slaps him and he slaps her back..Ramu was so goddamned impressed with him.. When we were thinking how do we name our characters..Ramu called his boy to make coffee for us..he said "Bhiku teen coffee"..and i said nice name..Satya was named after a woman called Satya..Someone Ramu knew back in college days..He just wanted her to know that he still rememberred her..Ramu was an engineering student..in some naxalite area in Andhra..then, when ever he got into trouble, he would strike a brucelee pose and make a eeyah sound to defend or protect himself..atleast thats what he told me..slowly all characters fell into place..Ramu's screenplay writer of Daud had been to Boston University Film Course..Gerard Hooper taught Cinematography there..he still teaches there..his two students made "THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT"..the writers name was KANNAN..kannan recommended Gerry..as he was fondly called..We started shooting somewhere in August 1997..three days of shooting..third day we were shooting..it was that sequence where Sushant Singh came to collect hafta from satya and satya refuses and slashes him..the way sushant reacted..he improvised or i didn't know what..Ramu reacted in a way i never saw him reacting..he said now i know what my film is all about and he trashed the script me and Saurabh wrote..he fucking trashed it..he also cancelled shooting the next day and guess what.. Gulshan Kumar was shot dead..Ramu stopped shooting..Underworld equations had changed..script needed to go through a change.. somedays after that was Daud's release..i remember..because it rained so much that day that noone could reach the premiere venue on time..anyways..Daud bombed..i still fucking loved it..I thought Neeraj Vora rocked in that film..so Ramu threw our script in the bin and we started rewriting script..Ramu always treated me like a kid..he was fond of me but never took me seriously..i was the kid in the gang..only other kid was Apoorva Asrani..the editor..Bhiku Mhatre's laughter was never written into the film..he just laughed one day when we were shooting at his fictitious house in bandra..we loved it so much that it became his character..The first day we shot with the lawyer Mule..Makrand deshpande ,who played the character overacted so nmuch,the scene was never kept in that film..it was the scene where chandar appears in court..just before "goli maar"song..Mule was shown sleeping in the court..his Yawn was louder than Shakti kapoor..it just did not work.. at that time goli maar was not even ther in the film..the whole party sequence was shot on "Mera piya ghar aaya oh Raamji"..later the songs came into the film..Goli maar song had a different version..it went"gham ke neeche bam laga ke gham uda de"..sung to the same tune..Gulzaar sahab wroteb "goli Maar"..we all including Ramu and Vishal prefeered the GHAM version..but who would tell it to Gulzar sahab..i was known to be blunt, so they chose me to tell it to Gulzar sahab..next meeting with him ..they took me along ..and i said "sir gum work nahin karta" and he said,"Gum nahin gham,Pehle bolna seekho" andi was out of discussion..everyone agreed to Goli maar and thank god they did..what a song..Rest later..a lot is coming back..all too random and all suddenly..need to sleep.."

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  • The scene where Sushant Singh's face is slashed by Chakravarthy was supposed to end there, but Varma forgot to say "cut" and the rest of the scene was improvised by the actors. Several scenes in the film were improvised, including the entire death scene of Bhiku Mhatre.

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  • Anurag Kashyap stated "While working on Satya, one day, RGV gave me the camera and asked me to shoot the portion where Satya, the central protagonist of the movie comes for the first time to Mumbai. I was so excited. I was bursting with so many ideas to shoot that particular portion. But once I reached the location, I saw actor (Chakravarty) instructing cameraman to shoot in a particular way. I couldn't say much and was reduced to an onlooker watching the shoot. Later, when the shoot tape reached RGV he fired everybody. He was clearly not happy with the shoot. I bore the brunt. I shared with him my ideas. 'Why didn't I implement it?' RGV was shouting at me. I told him I was new and they all were senior actors and crew members. RGV told me nobody here knows more or less. That gave me confidence.".

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  • Manoj Bajpayee ebased the character of Bhiku Mhatre on a person from his hometown who was a Jeetendra fan, wore coloured T-shirts and was short-tempered; he took the accent from his cook who was from Kolhapur.He also gathered his own costume from 25,000 given to him by the production.

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  • Earlier, Manoj Bajpayee was to play the role of Satya. However, as the roles were developed and became clear,director ram gopal verma realised that Bhiku Mhatre needed a strong character with good command over hindi. Hence, Manoj Bajpayee was asked to potray Bhiku Mhatre.

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