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Ranked #12 of 100
Satya
सत्या · 1998
A nobody steps off a train into Bombay and becomes indispensable to the underworld. The film that ended the fantasy gangster.
- Director
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Year
- 1998
- Genre
- Crime · Drama
- Cast
- J. D. Chakravarthy, Manoj Bajpayee, Urmila Matondkar
Why it's at number 12
Bhiku Mhatre. 'Mumbai ka king kaun?' Every Indian crime film after 1998 is downstream of this.
A nobody steps off a train into Bombay and becomes indispensable to the underworld. The film that ended the fantasy gangster.
Satya sits in the 1990s alongside Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Andaz Apna Apna — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ram Gopal Varma — also responsible for Company, Rangeela, Kaun?.
- Released in 1998, in the 1990s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Crime, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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