Satya:
All the points listed below is purely my
understanding and learning from RGV’s Satya movie and has nothing to do with
original movie. If any of the below points create disgrace to RGV garu or to
any of the Satya movie team I convey my regrets as this is not my
intention…Rasool Oruganti
Points that created Satya:
Ø In the days where underworld mafia has got its wings
to fly into the every corner of the city, most of the youngsters attracted
towards gang wars feeling gangster as a hero. The truth that burns the heart is
that everyone who takes the gun for sure will be killed by that gun but by the
time they come to know this truth the gun will be aimed on their head.
Ø In newspaper, everyday there used to be news on the
people got killed by police or by some gangster. The terrible shock is that one
day there is same news on the person who has stayed with us in the same
apartment, with whom we used to talk friendly. Still we see him shot dead by
police, we never predicted him as gangster as he has never shown that face in
front of us. He looks normal and has same life style whenever we saw him, which
proves that there is possibility that a person whom we talked to daily, whom we
consider as friend, whom we believe, whom we love, whom we respect, admire have
other side which is not visible to us until the last moment. That other side
can be a gangster.
Background of Characters:
Ø Any work that is new in the city will be started by
chance and for sure it is not planned.
There are many reasons of which one is enough for a person to take wrong
path. However a work is started by a single person, based on possibilities and
interest that single person can grow his scope of work where he needs people to
support his work. As that single person grows into a group, he might take up
new challenge like expanding his work to international level or move towards
politics. When he takes up new challenge he assigns the current responsibilities
to one of his or some of his worth full people by which groups will be created.
One such person who has taken up group to work for a mafia leader is Bahu.
Ø As the days pass on, Bahu started entering into
politics giving up his work to two important people Bheeku matrai and Guru
Narayan from his group. Bheeku and Guru were very good friends who used to work
together for any assignment. Guru is a type of guy who always wants to grow
fast, whereas Bheeku is a type of guy who wants to grow strong. Hence, when
they were given with two areas, Guru used to develop small connections with the
mafia leader who is operating from Dubai whereas Bheeku used to grow strong
within his area by maintaining a strong team. However they were very close and used to take
the control on two areas with mutual understanding, small ego clashes started
slowly which separates them mentally though physically they seems to be close
to each other.
Ø Guru is an orphan who used to have business mind from
his childhood. He used to do anything for the work that comes across him. He
wants to grow his business fast, so he joins with Bahu who works for mafia
directly. He is intelligent enough to use the braveness and openness of Bheku
by doing friendship with him and moving closely with his family. Even if he
wants to cross the rules for his business first he deals in terms of business
only, if it is not working he will go to any extent to get his business done.
However Guru and Bheku were mentally separated, Guru never faced problem in crossing
the rules with Bheku until Satya joined Bheku.
Ø Bheeku is a slum boy born and brought up from the
same area. He used to do many works for his living but due to his jovialness,
short temper, fast decision making, mentality of falling for people words
easily he will be thrown out of that works very fast. He never bothered about
losing his works as most of the time he likes spending time with his local
gang. He believes that he will become king of the area one day. He is always
fascinated about local gangster Bahu who works for mafia and assumes him as a
hero of that area. He has father who wants to live respectful and peaceful
life. However his father teaches him good things from childhood, his attitude
is grownup with the influence of his surroundings. His father has a sister and she have daughter who
loves Bheeku and always backup him. She has the character that is apt to the
attitude of Bheeku by which she is able to manage him, she is very bold,
organized. Whatever he does outside, the time he spent with this girl is always
special. When he formed a group to
support Bahu, he has strong members due to the way they share the work and
relations they maintain. Bheeku, however he is the leader of the gang he used
to move closely and very jovial with all the members. He has grown from the
stage where he assumed Bahu as hero to the stage where the next generation
people like Chandra praises and adores him like hell.
Ø Every day will be a history to the next day. Satya at
an age of 27 is not exceptional to this generic fact. However he is shown as
entering Mumbai city from nowhere, for sure he has a history which holds 27
years of his life. The length of his
history purely depends on the memorable, notable, forgettable moments he had in
his life. Though there is no clue about his history, his behavior in the film
draws the following lines.
ü He came alone to city and said he doesn’t have anyone
which says that he might be orphan or he doesn’t want to reveal or recall about
his past.
ü He is ready to stay in the lowest place and do even
low but right job. For first time he has not reacted, but from the second time
he reacted immediately on the people who is disturbing him. This shows that his
past had teaches him that he can live anywhere and can take up any small job
but at the same time he learned that the fear he shows in front of others is
the energy for them to attack him.
ü He joined hands immediately upon the request from
Bheeku. Upon many questions from Bheeku he answered clearly only for few of
them. Even after knowing the type of work he joined Bheeku gang. By birth or by
his past experience he has the ability to study people fast. He is a reserved and talks very less; he
wants to hide what he has done or there is nothing important he has that can be
shared with him. If he tries to hide, then either his past or the task he is
going to take up is powerful than the other which in either way it is not that
much useful to share the information.
ü He falling in love with Vidya and hiding that he is
gangster shows that however rough he looks there is a soft corner inside him.
ü Whatever he was in the past, he has given very good
value to Bheeku and played a key role in all his executions. Even knowing there
is risk for him, he has taken the revenge for his friend’s death.
ü Whatever he is doing, he always spent value time with
Vidya that made them get closer. His love on her made him to discuss with Bheku
on telling the truth to her, however he even given respect to Bheku words. Even
knowing that he is fighting with death, his love on her made him to reach her
instead of escaping from that place.
Ø The area where Bheeku, Satya and gangsters live
became one of the important characters in this movie. Gangsters stayed in
normal places just like other people. For instance, Satya stayed in opposite
flat of Vidya in an apartment where rest all flats were occupied by normal
public. They used to run their operations from an office which is in center of
town only. They do murders in the center of road; they chase their opponent in
between public across the roads.
Evolution of characters:
A person, who takes gun into his
hands unofficially, will be killed by that gun. Irrespective of how it was
happened, he is solo responsible for his decisions. In order to unveil the
hidden truths and life style of Gangsters there is a need of a character that
can travel into life’s of gangsters.--Satya
As the story is all about
exploring hidden truths in the gangster life, the play should run on an
established gangster’s environment. Bheku
is a strong gangster who maintains gang of around 10 people to perform
blackmail, money collecting, and murder related activities.
Any story will be more
interesting when there is strong antagonist to the protagonist. In case of
gangsters, the strong opponent can be considered as Police, however as this
story is more about the hidden side life of gangsters there is possibility to
find opponent within gangster.
In any type of work where there
is competition there is possibility of ego clashes, direct/indirect fight
between them. Gang wars is not an exceptional to this, hence a group that works
in parallel with Bheku gang is the one maintained by --Guru
The official counterpart to the
gangsters is police. Generally, any government job has a set of rules and
levels that needs to be followed; of course in police department it is clearly
visible. There are two ways, 1 is to follow the rules and the other is to go
beyond the rules to break down gangsters.
Khandilkar followed the first principle as he is just inspector; Sukla followed 2nd principle
as he is police commissioner and is able to command political leaders as well.
Very few people go to gang wars
intentionally whereas most of the people will be influenced or forced by any
event to join the gang wars. Satya fall under second grade where he will be
mistreated by a person from Guru Gang. In any work there will be a person who
tries to misuse his position just to show off or overconfident, Jagga bhai from Guru Gang is one such
person and is used to make Satya involve in gang wars.
As the story is influenced from
the fact that any person who stays very close to us and whom we believed or
talked to can be a gangster, heroine Vidya
is placed in the front flat of Satya and given an attitude of simple life
loving. She is alone and got a deceased father and aged mother as dependents by
which she has an environment where she feels of sharing her thoughts with
others like Satya whom she believed.
However a person by profession
is a gangster, by nature he is human being who has the generic emotions. To
show one such generic emotion the family relations of a gangster, Bheeku has
got two children and a wife who has an attitude that suits
well with Bheeku attitude.
In the list of the activities
like money collection, black mailing, murder, political support performed by
gangsters activities linked with politics is the interesting one. As the next level, any settled gangster plans
to extend his wings towards international market or political side. Bhau who was then boss of Bheku and
Guru has moved to political side and he is also used to show the political
connection of gangsters.
In order to show the execution
of the murder attack by gangsters, a film
producer and Bappu were used.
The money collection activities
were shown using a contractor, Yeda
and gang.
In black mailing activity by a
gangster, a music director is used
which in turn helped to grown love between Vidya and Satya.
In any illegal activities there
will be a problem in the form of case by police, at the same time there is also
a solution in the form of lawyer who is going prove that gangster is innocent
and police is ignorant. Mule is such
a lawyer who works for Bheku.
Due to more experience in the
respective field, age, more talkative power, jovial ness there is a possibility
of existence of a person in the gang by giving elderly advices. Kallu mama is such a person who behaves
as the patient, intelligent and friendly just like right hand to Bheku.
There are people who saw the
heroism in the activities of gangsters and end their life by blindly following
them; Chander is one such guy who
admires Bheku madly.
Even power cut in apartment
flats, rain, and song by Vidya
helped to initiate interest in Satya on Vidya
My heart full of thanks to RAM GOPAL VARMA garu for giving me Satya
to learn Cinema--Rasool Oruganti
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