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J. D. Chakravarthy
Urmila Matondkar
Paresh Rawal
Manoj Bajpayee
Saurabh Shukla
Govind Namdeo
Makarand Deshpande
Shefali Shah
Raju Mavani
It is the first of Varma's Gangster trilogy about organised crime in India. Ram Gopal Varma initially planned to make an action film, but decided to make a film focusing on felonies after meeting some criminals. He hired Kashyap and Shukla to write the film, and opted to use lesser-known actors. The film was shot in Mumbai on a budget of ₹2.5 crore. It was a commercial success, grossing ₹15 crore, and helped launch a number of careers (especially for Kashyap and Bajpayee). The film won six Filmfare Awards and a National Film Award. Over the years, Satya has been regarded as a cult film, and is considered one of the greatest films ever made by a number of critics and scholars in Indian cinema. It inspired several sequels like Company (2002) and D (2005), and a direct sequel, Satya 2 (2013).
