No
matter what cast, creed & category you belong, you must have encountered
people mostly clad in crisp ironed formals & with great vocal skills;
who sure have a ‘never heard
before’ plan to secure your happy life, a profitable concept to put your money
in for a humongous guaranteed return or even a ‘work from home’ chain-business
to join for an easy & quick solution to all your worries. Who hasn’t met a
salesman before, with pamphlets & booklets to handover you on your regular
bus-stand, at market place & where not?
In
similar manner, we see the leading man of SATYA 2- Ram Gopal Varma’s another
disastrous contribution to Indian cinema, selling off a promising concept of
forming a new underworld ‘company’ that would believe in not showing off its
powers but in planting its roots all over undercover to extract more in a safer
way. The only problem here is, the plan may sound convincing at first but has
no concrete ground to proceed further and sadly, the way it gets described and
explained is nothing but an irritating- infuriating blabber all the way. As a
result, you have no choice left but to snatch the pamphlet, roll it and start
looking for the nearest and first dustbin to throw it away like we do with the
most such plans.
Allegedly
a sequel to 1998’s path breathing underworld movie SATYA of great team work (Anurag
Kashyap, Gulzar, Vishal Bhardwaj), SATYA 2 unashamedly doesn’t show any
connection to its prequel. In fact, it is as bad to SATYA as RGV’s AAG was to
‘SHOLAY’. The irony is both the films are in name of one filmmaker and no one
can really blame or thrash out the other for being so offensive. We all have
been waiting for the real RGV to come out soon but at this point of time, I
would like to believe in a quite filmy situation where the real Ram Gopal Varma
of RANGEELA, RAAT, BHOOT, SATYA, KAUN is now captured in somewhere and his
place is now taken over by his ‘humshakal’ who’s ready to devastate all the
respect as a filmmaker he had earned from left, right & centre (Trust me,
this is more entertaining plot than the most of RGV’s recent failures J)
Unlike
the character sensitively underplayed by J D Chakrvarthy in 1998’s hit, the new
Satya in town [played by a newcomer credited as Puneet Singh Ratn for Hindi
Version and as Sarwanand in Telugu] is insipid, bland & boring, mainly because of the writing. The
writing is too lethargic to create sense. Imagine a narrative voice-over with
pure Hindi words like ‘utpann, sarvnaash, chintan’, and in times when there is
a song to be thrown in, it goes like “…and they went to Kashmir
for honeymoon”. Song is over. & now it says, “…and after the honeymoon,
they came back to Mumbai”. What an explanation! And who says Bollywood doesn’t
show logics!!
On
serious note, time has come when we should console & comfort the cinema
lovers in us with a ‘hard to accept’ realization that there was a filmmaker who
inevitably desired and derived us through his many prominent artworks for a
potential change in Indian cinema but is now lost somewhere in the
undercurrents of his own mutinous nature!
SATYA 2 is not Ram Gopal Varma’s worst but sure a forgettable & shoddy work of substandard that kills all my hopes to see him rise & shine again! Stay Away! [1/5]
SATYA 2 is not Ram Gopal Varma’s worst but sure a forgettable & shoddy work of substandard that kills all my hopes to see him rise & shine again! Stay Away! [1/5]
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