Satya (film)

Satya (film)

Satya (Hindi: सत्य; lit. "Truth") is a 1998 Hindi crime film directed by Ram Gopal Varma, presented by Bharat Shah 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. It is the first film in the Gangster Trilogy. It was followed by 2 sequels Company and D.

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 crore Satya 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. Satya has been referred to as a modern masterpiece and "perhaps" one of the best films of the 1990s. 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 he is the acknowledged master.