Satya 2

''Satya 2'' () is a 2013 Indian crime film directed by Ram Gopal Varma. Shot simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu languages, the film stars Puneet Singh Ratn (Hindi), Sharwanand (Telugu), Anaika Soti and Mahesh Thakur. The film tells the story of Satya, an immigrant who comes to Mumbai aiming to refashion the mumbai underworld. The film is the fourth installment of the ''Gangster'' series.

Plot

The storyline of ''Satya 2'' is narrated by a voice about the underworld whose activities have slowed down from the last decade in Mumbai (Hyderabad in Telugu version). The story is based on Satya who comes to Mumbai and starts working for Lahoti, a construction magnate. In trying to beat a competitor in a deal, he gets involved with the mafia and other underworld elements who don't have the clout anymore. Later, he kills RK who is the retired mafia leader and his son since his son wanted to kill Satya due to a feud between them. During this time, he gets his friend production money for a film and gets a flat and brings his girlfriend Chitra to live there. He makes enemies all around and in a shootout with cops, loses his girlfriend and also his friend. But, even though he is captured, he is able to get out of jail through the company he creates with his connections and begins his reign as the newest underworld leader in Mumbai/Hyderabad.

Cast

Telugu version

* Suresh as Subramanyam
* Ajay Rathnam as Sambasiva Rao "Samba"
* Shanmugarajan as Police Officer
* Radha Ravi as Chief Minister
* Thalaivasal Vijay as Prakash Rao

Development

Context

"All this was in the early eighties and we are now in 2013 and since there is almost no underworld now, it is clear that there's a vacuum and whenever there's a vacuum in any lucrative business there will always be an entrepreneur to step in.

If ''Satya'' was a story of a man who came in 1998 and shaped the then existing underworld, 'Satya 2' is about another man who comes in 2013 to reinvent the underworld. To that extent I would say this is a futuristic film not in terms of science fiction but in terms of that there's no precedent for the protagonist of 'Satya 2'. He starts a new underworld company based on his study of the mistakes of all the earlier dons and also on the ways he develops to deal with the modern day policing methods" said Ram Gopal Varma. "The police is completely caught off guard by this never before experienced menace of the new Company and the reason for this is that the police will always be lesser than a criminal enterprise in their vision ...That is because the police is merely an evolved system whereas a criminal entrepreneur for want of a better word is a visionary in his own field. Only after a new kind of crime happens will the police learn how to contain or prevent it. So it follows that if a completely new kind of a criminal appears on the horizon, their past experience will be null and void and they will again have to start from scratch

So in one line 'Satya 2' is about a man whose thinking starts where the earlier Dons thinking ended and where the police cannot even begin to think." said Ram Gopal Varma.

Production

"As a film maker I have been doing a deep study of the underworld and its gangsters for more than two decades primarily for the purposes of gathering subject matters for my films and to get inspired for characters from real life references..And that's how films like ''Satya'' and company happened... Then one day it occurred to me what if a guy out there studied the same gangsters not for becoming a film maker but for the purpose of becoming a gangster himself.it's that idea of mine which finally shaped itself into ''Satya 2''. A new age gangster will obviously be armed with the mistakes of the earlier gangsters and also with the modern day policing methods". said Ram Gopal Varma. One romantic song of ''Satya 2'' was shot in Kashmir in June 2013. The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) passed Satya 2 with A certificate with 3 cuts. ''Satya 2'' is made within the budget of Rs 15 crore.

The film was promoted as a trilingual and was to mark the Tamil-language directorial debut of Varma. However, the Telugu version was partially reshot in Tamil as ''Naanthaanda''.

Soundtrack

The background score of the film has been composed by Shakthikanth Karthick. The soundtrack of the film consisted of nine tracks composed by Nitin Raikwar, Sanjeev–Darshan, Kary Arora and Shree D and lyrics by Moied Elhaam, Nitin Raikwar, Kumaar, Sonny Ravan and Shree D on 15 October 2013.

Release and reception

Director Ram Gopal Verma hinted that ''Satya 2'' will be his last film on the underworld and that now he wants to make romantic movies. Satya 2 was released on 2 8 October 2013 in U. A. E. and 8 November 2013 in India.

The film received mixed reviews, Subhash K. Jha of ''Bollywood News'' stated that Ram Gopal Varma returns to form with Satya 2.
''Samreen Tungekar'' of Bolly spice has stated "Ram Gopal Verma had made it clear that Satya 2 is not a sequel to Satya, and he has evidently made no attempt of making this film look like a prequel or a sequel too. Satya 2 stands as an independent story and does well for itself as a film." Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave it 3 out of 5 stars and stated that Satya 2 has the right elements that make a quintessential gangster film. Madhureeta Mukherjee of Times of India gave it 2 out of 5 stars.

The Telugu version released to negative reviews with Sangeetha of ''The Hindu'' advising to "skip this and watch the original '' Satya''."

Box office

''Satya 2'' opened to an average opening-day occupancy of around 5 percent, the overseas market being no different with the film seeing a release in UAE. Owing to this the film had an opening day collections of with coming from Mumbai itself keeping in accordance with the wide release with the rest coming from East Punjab and DUP with collections of around and , respectively.

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Films about organised crime in India
2010s Telugu-language films
2010s Hindi-language films
Films set in Mumbai
Films directed by Ram Gopal Varma
2013 films
Fictional portrayals of the Maharashtra Police
Indian gangster films
Indian multilingual films
2013 multilingual films