---
title: 'Satya (1998)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ram Gopal Varma'
released: '1998-07-03'
runtime_minutes: 171
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'India'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/satya-1998'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195231/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Satya (1998)

1998 · 171 min · Drama, Crime · India

Part of: Gangster

## Synopsis

Satya is a 1998 Indian Hindi-language crime film, produced and directed by Ram Gopal Varma; written by Saurabh Shukla and Anurag Kashyap. It stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee, alongside Saurabh Shukla, Aditya Shrivastava and Paresh Rawal. It is the first of Varma's  Gangster trilogy about organised crime in India. The film follows Satya (Chakravarthy), an immigrant who comes to Mumbai looking for a job, befriends Bhiku Mhatre (Bajpayee) and is drawn into the Mumbai underworld.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ram Gopal Varma](https://cinepixo.com/people/ram-gopal-varma)
- **Producer:** [Ram Gopal Varma](https://cinepixo.com/people/ram-gopal-varma)
- **Screenplay:** [Saurabh Shukla](https://cinepixo.com/people/saurabh-shukla)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Vishal Bhardwaj](https://cinepixo.com/people/vishal-bhardwaj)
- **Director of Photography:** [Mazhar Kamran](https://cinepixo.com/people/mazhar-kamran)
- **Editor:** [Apurva Asrani](https://cinepixo.com/people/apurva-asrani)

## Cast

- [J. D. Chakravarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-d-chakravarthy)

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