Satya 2

Satya 2

Director- Ram Gopal Verma

Genre: Crime/ Action

Runtime: 157 minutes (A)

Cast - Puneet Singh Ratn (Satya), Ankita Soti (Chitra), Mahesh Thakur (Lahoti), Aradhna Gupta (Special), Kaushal Kapoor (Purshottam), Vikram Singh (Anna)

This is no ‘Sapno mein milti hai” Satya! “Sorry bolneka, aage badhneka”! Please apologise yourself once you are out of the theatres, and even more if you watched the whole film! So, there is a young man who comes to Mumbai, and unlike Satya (1998), this man is not innocent, he is a zombie, an evil, cold blooded zombie! Why this film is named after Satya, no clue! It is unbelievably hard to believe that RVG chose to make a sequel to his most iconic creation as both the films; Satya and Satya 2 share nothing in common. One a brilliant film spine-chilling crime film and the other is the funniest gangster film this year. Which other film dares to claim that it was inspired by Tom and Jerry cartoons? The gangsters actually discuss this: “Tom and Jerry dekha hai? Choohe aur billi ki ladai mein faayda hamesha kutte ka hota hai”! Like really!

This film is nothing more than being the funniest gangster film ever. I wished RVG roped in Saurabh Shukla to write the story this time in, too Radhika Anand is no magician! The only thing that should push you to watch Satya 2 is either you want to detox your addiction for good films, or good times for the matter of fact! Or, the brilliant Mumbai framed, the cinematography.

This time over Satya has no hardships, and he knows it all about the city and its criminal king-pins on day one of entering Mumbai; but wears sweaters in the city when it’s raining cat and dogs! He is not the quintessential gangster! This man (Satya) has his plan; he is creating a company with a structure that promises an India within India, a business within all businesses, a system within systems… His plan is so complex, it foxes the cops, and the filmmaker too (‘what his system is we will tell you that another time...’ they promise). Our hero is a zombie, in true sense! He has no six abs, no gangster attitude, and no nothing! RGV claimed that he ‘acts with his eyes and screams with his whispers’ so we waited two and a half hours for that to happen… no, didn’t happen!

Now boys, some shots in the film would be counted as cold criminal shots on how the serial-rapist-influential politician’s son-Mane is killed, and a burka clad woman shoots his sex-weapons, coldly! But if you are going for the women in the film, keep away! The female lead- Chitra (Ankita Soti) - the duck faced, and Special (Aradhna Gupta)! Chitra is a dumb gangster-wife! Her shabby wronged neck- tattoo and a navel piercing can’t be hidden even as her pout overtakes her looks, I missed Urmila Matondkar from the original film! And Special is quite special, challenged! She fakes some kind of a ballet dance, and can’t act; her sweaty cleavage is quite a distraction too, all you want to do is, go lend her a towel, to wipe herself and then go hide, no seek!

Of course immediately after the film sets in, the guy who wears maximum jewellery and overacts the most dies. And our man with a plan to reinvent the underworld company, fails in his plan, and gets on the other side of the bars, and the shallow, showoff smartness, research and lessons learned from yesteryear gangsters goes in vain, quite easily! "Company ek soch hai"… and it’ll never explain its agenda… even as you sit through 157 (precious) minutes of complete nonsense!

Walk out of the theatres, pull off your hair and hum “goli maar bheje mein” a dedication to the loss of Satya (1998) in and unfortunate sequel, Satya 2 (2013)

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