Film: Satya 2
Starring: Puneet Singh Ratn,Anaika Soti,Aradhana Gupta
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: M Samanth Kumar Reddy
Banner: Mammoth Media Entertainment Pv.Ltd
Music: Amar Mohile,Kary Arora
Maveric Director Ram Gopal
Varma's latest underworld thirller film Satya 2 has been released
worldwide on November 8th. Way2movies presents Satya 2 movie review below. Puneet Singh Ratn,Anaika Soti and Aradhana Gupta are the lead cast of the film.
Spot the difference. It's the same in
all apparent details. Mumbai's underworld caught in a compromising
position by Ram Gopal Varma (RGV)'s camera prying into the mutilated
lives of characters looking so scruffy and aggressive, you wish they
would leave aside the bloodbath and just take a 'bloody' bath.
Yup, this is ostensibly a very familiar
RGV territory. But hang on. There is something very different going on
here. Strikingly rich and articulate in production design, "Satya 2" is a
startling original take on the evolution, collapse and restoration of
Mumbai's underworld in ways that question the economical paradigm of a
nation on the brink of damnation.
Yes, we are talking about our country
where crime and corruption grow in direct proportion to the apathy of
the powers that be. Given the incredible leap in atrocities against the
'un-empowered '(to coin an anti-capitalistic phrase) where does the
poorest of the poor go when his daughter gets gang-raped, his wife dies
of adulterated medicine and his father cannot get his Rs.500 pension
without paying a bribe?
Stop right here. RGV's film shows a
devilish daring. It takes the underworld into confidence to build an
anti-corruption empire that would feed the fed up by paralysing the
super privileged.
It's a startling premise, and one that
RGV is not able to work out into any tenable blueprint of
socio-political reform. But the very fact that he is able to suggest a
solution, no matter how implausible, to the current climate of desperate
de-escalation of morality, is reason enough to applaud this flawed but
riveting drama of the doomed and the dangerous.
Beware of the hopeless. They have
nothing to lose except their despair. This is the propelling premise of
RGV's neo-Satya's plot. The narration is most of the time taut and
tactile as we follow the new millennium Satya's journey from a village
in Rajasthan to the vortex of gangsterism in Mumbai. Ironically, the
police, sturdily represented in the film, don't seem any different in
its activities from the underworld.
RGV gives the saga of gangsterism a new
spin creating for the underworld genre of cinema an entirely new formula
and folklore of survival. Gone are those crazy camera angles in RGV's
recent films that left us dizzy and disoriented.
Vikas Sharaf's cinematography captures
Mumbai in stunning sepia tones suggesting decadence and rebirth in the
same range of vision.
Visually "Satya 2" is RGV's smartest and
most eye catching film in years. The shootouts on the streets of
Mumbai, which have been done to bludgeoning death in the past, acquire a
new life here. The sequence where Satya is shot at in an open cafeteria
is specially brilliant in the way the editor cuts to the chase without
getting out of breath.
The under-construction buildings, a favourite haunt of filmy gangsters, are shot here with vigorous virility.
So many years after "Satya" spoke a new
cinematic language, RGV is back in form displaying the sparks of
brilliance that made the first "Satya" a trendsetting experience. No
relation to the earlier film except the one of Bhai-giri, "Satya 2"
sneaks slyly into Mumbai's dark dangerous sinister and ominous
underbelly.
RGV's eye for the migrant's dismantled soul is unerring and powerful.
The performances range from the
reined-in to the embarrassingly over the top. In the title role, Puneet
Singh Ratn's restrained intensity aids the work's aura of karmic
catastrophe.