First things first – ‘Satya-2’ is not a sequel to ‘Satya’. First things second – It comes from the same director who made that cult film and many other really good movies. There was a time when Director Ram Gopal Varma redefined Indian Cinema with his path-breaking and experimental movies starting from his very first ‘Shiva’ (remake of his own Telegu movie ‘Siva’). The maverick filmmaker went on to give us several gems, presented and directed in a way none had ever done. RGV was among the very few directors who was critically acclaimed and got commercial success in most of his films. 
And then tragedy struck! Nobody really knows what must have transpired (if anything happened) on him that we have a very sick and cynical (you have to read his tweets!) man on the verge of insanity.
Over the years, the same critics who once praised the man began panning his movies and even the audiences fear to watch his movies now. After all, many consider ‘RGV ki Aag’ to be the worst movie in the history of Indian Cinema and to add to the woes, you must give him credit (!) to add a few other movies to the list. ‘Satya’ is recognized to be RGV’s best work so far (though I disagree and choose ‘Company’ and ‘Raat’ as better flicks) and you fail to understand why would there be a need to make a supposedly sequel to a movie which didn’t require one. But RGV has attempted remakes and sequels of his own movies (‘Shiva’, ‘Bhoot’) perhaps, as a result of desperation to cash in on the success and make it work for himself. I must mention here that I had been a huge fan of RGV’s way of making movies not too long ago and though I wasn’t keen on watching ‘Satya-2’, I decided to check show availability through Book My Show amidst a tight schedule. Of course, I wasn’t expecting it to be a packed house. I had to rub my eyes in disbelief when I read – Tickets sold out for all shows. I had to confirm it so I rushed to the hall. It turned out that there was a technical error and there were nine people watching the show. One was me.
Satya (debutante Punit Singh Ratn; I must admit here I had to search for the star cast in Google) leaves his village for some reason and arrives in Mumbai one day. He refuses to talk about his past and moves in with his friend (Amitriyaan). His friend’s love is a girl called Special. She must have been specially taken in the movie to just flaunt herself in revealing outfits only to lose out to the film’s heroine, a village belle (Anaika Soti; hope I got that right). Our protagonist’s love interest is too sugar-coated and fake at that; when she isn’t trying to be hyper sweet, she is happy showing off her assets and navel. Save us from fake porn! Okay… now the plot! To be honest, RGV has a decent idea in place. He is of the opinion that the underworld never gets defunct – the form and way of operation changes. Satya teams up with business tycoons and uses them well to re-invent the underworld – a system within a system wherein common harmed and suppressed citizens are part of the company to strike fear among the rich, powerful and corrupt people. Satya himself doesn’t want to be known. He says – “Mr. Dawood Ibrahim ne D Company khadi kar ke apni sab se badi galti ki” and goes on to disregard other notorious dons like Chota Rajan and Abu Salem too. Satya sets up a company and the product is fear. In the process, he begins losing his loved ones.
RGV has an idea here and he could have done well only if he would have treated the subject with some maturity. He is the same director who gave us a very realistic insight on how the underworld operates (‘Satya’, ‘Company’ and to some extent ‘Sarkar’). This time, he does no justice to the genre and what adds up to making it worse are the songs 
(you have the first one right after the opening credits). Songs were not at all required and not such tuneless ones for sure. To make matters worse, the performances are hilarious (in a bad way). Punit Singh Ratn does have some (overstatement!) screen presence even with his unconventional looks but he delivers dialogues in a way a kid enacts a role of something that excites him. It is an average performance at best. ‘Satya’ didn’t have a good lead performance either (Chakravarthy) but you still recall the supporting cast – Manoj Bajpai as Bhiku Mhatre and Saurabh Shukla as Kallu Mama were well-etched characters well-performed. Here you have to watch the others (especially Anaika Soti) to have a good laugh. It is sad that RGV has stooped down to make such terrible choices while casting for his films. I doubt if the producers here (all unknown names) asked him to compromise on it though there is a song shot in Kashmir (Imagine RGV shooting a romantic track in such a genre).
Watch it or not: Even if you happen to watch it on TV, you might as well enjoy the commercial breaks more than the movie.
At the Box-Office: Disaster!
My Verdict
My Rating
If Kallu Mama from ‘Satya’ watched this one he would have rephrased and sung – “Goli maar bheje mein, bheja bahut dukhta hain.”
