It was Satya in 1998 and now in 2013, a man Satya Prakash comes to Mumbai to reinvent the underworld. Satya 2 is about this man who has ambitious plans to bring about professionalism in the Mumbai Underworld and then spread it nationwide.
Satya (Puneet Singh Ratn) gets a job with a construction company. His Boss Lahoti (Mahesh Thakur) is hassled about a long continuing problem for which he takes help of the local don RK (Raj Premi), even RK is unable to settle Lahoti’s problem because his competitor is very close to the ACP.
Satya comes up with a bright idea – at one stroke eliminate Lahoti’s competitor and immediately the ACP who is shielding the competitor. Lahoti is so impressed that he offers a plush bungalow for this miracle man Satya who then calls up his love Chitra (Anaika Soti) to come and reside with him in Mumbai.
Satya starts a new underworld company on the lines where no past dons had envisaged. The company is based on his study of the errors of all the earlier dons and the planned way to deal with the Police force – without coming out in the front.
This man has studied the flaws in our current system and identifies people from various walks of life and positions who would work for the company which had plans to amass thousands of crores from the rich industrialists and politicians.
The ball starts rolling, and the police force is perplexed as one by one the officers in charge of tackling the underworld are wiped off.
This reaches to one stage where the Chief Minister of the State is assassinated, hence creating a rapid tsunami of fear in the society. Now we have a situation that there is huge collection from the industrialists and the wealthy who have amassed huge wealth and now are ready to part with protection money.
Here we have a polished gangster whose thinking starts where the earlier Dons’ thinking and tactics ended and this fellow has plans to strategize where the police cannot even begin to think.
This is the new age gangster.
Again, as compared to J D Chakraborty as Satya in the 1998, Debutant Punit Singh Ratn is nowhere near the original Satya’s performance. Yet Punit does have some silent charma and the fire in his eyes.
His lady love Chitra played by Anaika has a pout and is duck faced. She does have her glamourous moments in the initial introductory song and thereafter in a song at her honeymoon in Kashmir.
Mahesh Thakur as the builder Lahoti and Raj Premi as the local don RK and his son TK are natural in their characters. Aradhna Gupta has a sloppy introductory scene where shows her as showing off her curves in her boyfriends house knowingly in the presence of a third person in the room (Satya had landed in Mumbai).
The film begins with a voice over by the veteran Makarand Deshpande, with camera introducing the viewer to the high rises of Mumbai and then the shot from the top, agonizingly prolonging it, just to establish the potholes around the high-rises and the deficiency in the city’s infrastructure. There is no point in stretching it too far.
This version of Satya is a standalone film. Even so, there are situations in the film which seem beyond any logic. The set of theories put forth by Satya to convince Lahoti in the beginning and then the reasoning used by him after establishing their so called ‘Company’ envisaging its role nationwide, and then even ruling the government in the centre… They appear absurd and mindless.
The background score is typically loud, as if the director hasn’t come out of his fetish for horror flicks. It hurts quite often.
The director instead of focusing on screenplay and the logic behind Satya’s meteoric rise in the underworld, shows off some innovative camerawork. There are continuous shots of the mega city from the terrace of a high rise panning the skyline of the city and then uninterruptedly descending right up its ground floor and continually following it to the vehicular traffic right till the next signal. Quite interesting.
Cast
Punit Singh Ratn – Satya
Anaika Soti – Chitra
Mahesh Thakur – Lahoti
Aradhna Gupta – Special
Raj Premi – RK
Amal Sehrawat – TK
Kaushal Kapoor – Purshottam (Ex Cop)
Credits & Crew:
Banner – Mammoth Media And Entertainment Pvt Ltd, LR Media
Produced by M. Sumanth Kumar Reddy, Dr. Arun Kumar Sharma
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Story – Radhika Anand
Background Music – Shkti Krthick
Choreography – Shabeena Khan
Costume Designer – Sacorina Joseph
Executive Producers – Meenakshi Pandey, Vijay Chhabra
Co-Producer – Sandeep Gangatkar
Music by Amar Mohile, Kary Arora
Asst. Director – Sujit Shobhnath Dube
Edited by Jerin Jose
Cinematography – Vikash Saraf
Action – Javed Eijaz
Art – Saini S. Johray, Tarun Ahuja