S07E10: Satya (1998) - Pandemic Edition - Feel-Good Movies
Satya (transl. Truth) is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language gangster action crime film, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma; written by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee, Saurabh Shukla, Aditya Shrivastava and Paresh Rawal in lead roles. (Source: Wikipedia). You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes / Stitcher / TuneIn or on YouTube. You can also listen to this episode right here on the player below.
Podcast Episode Summary:
- We talk about how Mano Bajpai had to work so hard to break being typecast as Biku Matre
- We talk about all the characters and their motive to join the gang
- We talk about Urmila and her versatility
Quotables:
I would definitely recommend this movie to someone who is not from India, if they like gangster movies - Flo
Before Satya, I didn’t have an opinion on gangster movies - Tanvi
It’s the names, right…like we hadn’t heard these names before - Tanvi
You can easily dissect each and every details in the movie, I don’t even know what to begin with - Flo