Ram Gopal Varma's Satya (1998), which today completes two decades since its release, was a life-changing experience for Anurag Kashyap — who co-wrote it with Saurabh Shukla — and for actor Manoj Bajpayee, who played the memorable Bhiku Mhatre in it.
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"20 years back my first film released. And changed my life forever. Being part of it was like going to the best film school in the world. All that I know I learned on one film and from one man. Thank you RGV," Kashyap tweeted.
He wrote: "When people ask me today, if I realised Satya would become a great film, I will have to say no. That is because great films happen and no one can make them on intention.
"The proof of that is none of us, whether it's Anurag or Manoj or me, could reach beyond Satya in the last twenty years... If we knew how to do it, why didn't we do it again?"