This is a well made movie which comes with an agenda. The agenda is on the surface to frighten the youth from joining the underworld; but if you go deeper it becomes somewhat obvious that the movie aims at rationalizing state-sponsored violence without getting into the roots of the power-crime nexus. When the conscientious wife of the Police Commissioner Amod Shukla asks her husband about the veracity of extra-judicial killings by police force as reported in the television, the answer is that police doesn't kill for fun. The pro-state-violence public emotion is further bolstered by the consequent death of the Commissioner at his doorsteps. To confuse the viewers, the movie shows human rights groups as the saviour of the underworld.
After the jail fight between Bhiku Mhatre and Satya, the former tells Satya - you don't know me because you don't read newspapers. I found this dialogue quite realistic when I saw the movie for the first time. But now as I see Ramgopal Verma coming up with movies like "D", I understand it was a tricky comment. Ramu himself glorifies the underworld dons to rationalize police action, if he is really making this movie independently without any financing from the state-international nexus which wants to treat the common man as a boiling frog. Boiling frog syndrome explains the political concept of incrementalism, using an example of placing a frog in a pot of hot water the frog will jump out of the pot but if you place the frog in a pot of cool water and slowly increase the heat the frog will slowly cook to death. Using incrementalism, human populations are gradually conditioned to accept steady but slow encroachment on personal liberties until there is no liberty.
Films like "Satya" are made to rationalize this kind of gradual encroachment of personal liberties. It is aimed at the intelligent youth who can use their judgement to denounce state-sponsored violence. In the 21st century, Indian democracy needs to be matured enough to question if extra-judicial killings is a necessary evil or a short cut for those more equal than others to deal with entropy and rule the roost.
After the jail fight between Bhiku Mhatre and Satya, the former tells Satya - you don't know me because you don't read newspapers. I found this dialogue quite realistic when I saw the movie for the first time. But now as I see Ramgopal Verma coming up with movies like "D", I understand it was a tricky comment. Ramu himself glorifies the underworld dons to rationalize police action, if he is really making this movie independently without any financing from the state-international nexus which wants to treat the common man as a boiling frog. Boiling frog syndrome explains the political concept of incrementalism, using an example of placing a frog in a pot of hot water the frog will jump out of the pot but if you place the frog in a pot of cool water and slowly increase the heat the frog will slowly cook to death. Using incrementalism, human populations are gradually conditioned to accept steady but slow encroachment on personal liberties until there is no liberty.
Films like "Satya" are made to rationalize this kind of gradual encroachment of personal liberties. It is aimed at the intelligent youth who can use their judgement to denounce state-sponsored violence. In the 21st century, Indian democracy needs to be matured enough to question if extra-judicial killings is a necessary evil or a short cut for those more equal than others to deal with entropy and rule the roost.