Satya 2

This was my write up about The Attacks of 26/11 http://kartikr.blogspot.in/2013/03/the-attacks-of-2611.html.  Notice the part where I state, “But of late, RGV's intense movies are restricted to those to study the History of Cinema. With little or no production value”.  Unfortunately with Satya 2, RGV breaks new ground.  He gives you a masterpiece that will be used in film schools for a long time to come.

Erm.  In case you got your hopes too high with that introduction, I meant it in a sarcastic way.  Satya 2 joins the realm of cinema such as Joker and Milenge Milenge for what a feature film SHOULD NOT BE.  Satya 2 caps of what has been a stunning fall from grace of someone who at one point in time was rated as the best that ever happened to Indian cinema.

Except for the intent and the broad structure of a story – that is an interesting take on what and how the underworld should actually operate as – RGV and his team gets everything wrong.  Satya 2 is the story of – no points for guessing – a guy called Satya (Punit Singh Ratn) and his rise to being the undisputed king of the Mumbai underworld. What makes it even more dreary is the voice of Makarand Deshpande narrating the story.

Satya 2 narrates the mysterious story of a person whose only past happens to be covered in 5 minutes – a love story with Chitra (Anaika Soti).  He leaves quite abruptly – probably because Chitra gave him some gas about how poetry is meant to be felt and not understood – eh? He runs off Mumbai with an intent of developing a deep understanding of its “Bhookh, Jalan, Laalach and Nafrat (Hunger, Jealousy, Greed and Hate)”.

By this time, Satya 2 had pretty much lost me and could it provided some sparks of brilliance (notice the sarcasm again) through dialogues like “Confidence aur over confidence ke beech mein dhaage bhar ka farak hota hai” – What? Where did a dhaaga (thread) come into play? If not that then, “Palkon pe baithne waalon ko sar pe baithne ke liye time nahin lagta” – erm? Call dialogue writer and hang him.  NOW!!!!

If this doesn’t get to you, then wait till Special (Aradhna Gupta) makes her appearance in hot pants and a cut off vest in a Mumbai chawl.  What was she wanting to play – struggling actress or cheap modern whore? And she says, “Mein Special hoon.  Mera naam Special kyun hai iske peechhe ek bahut badi, chhoti si kahaani hai”.  It was at this point that I was searching for a rope in the hall so that I could hang myself.

People claimed that RGV had lost it with Aag (his remake of Sholay that I haven’t seen yet).  Any doubts can be put to rest with Satya 2.  The concept of the movie is really not bad.  A different take on how the underworld should actually be.  Unfortunately, after the concept stage, everything goes downhill with no brakes.

Anaika Soni can all but kiss her dreams of Bollywood goodbye.  All she does is display her permanent pout and repeat a belly dance step that she may have recently learnt in a song.  And of course getting wet either in the rain or in Kashmir. I am not quite certain as to what Aradhna Gupta was trying to do wearing stockings while practicing ballet. Ballet???? And what about Punit Singh Ratn? Never mind.

In short, Satya 2 joins the list of most avoidable movies for the year.  There is no production value whatsoever.  The direction is absent.  The entire movie should have been edited – so 0 there.  I give it 1 on 10 for 2 things – a good concept that was unfortunately executed in a manner that was worst possible.  And the only line that made some sense over 2.5 hours, “Darr sabse zyada uss se lagta hai jo dikhta nahin hai” (One fears most what one cannot see).

Don’t even bother watching the trailer on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycl6CkZYms0