Anurag Kashyap recalls fighting with Ram Gopal Verma over scenes in Satya: ‘Do it in your own film’

Anurag Kashyap recalled having fights with Ram Gopal Varma while shooting Manoj Bajpayee starrer Satya.

New Delhi | January 17, 2025 03:47 PM IST

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Anurag Kashyap spoke about his learning from Ram Gopal Varma in Satya.

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap co-wrote Ram Gopal Varma’s 1998 action-crime drama Satya with Saurabh Shukla. In a conversation with Radio Nasha along with the whole team of Satya, Anurag took a trip down memory lane and recalled having fights with RGV while shooting the film. He also shared how Satya was “made on the go”.

Emphasising how he had too many questions for the director while filming Satya, Anurag shared, “I was totally raw. I was learning and digging everything. I would argue so much. Eventually, he would be right. To shut me up, he would say, ‘Good idea, put it in your film, this is my film.’”

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The filmmaker-writer further spoke about the argument over the death scene of Manoj Bajpayee’s chatacter in Satya. “Even in Manoj’s death sequence, there was Saurabh, me, Makarand and Ramu ji in a corner only fighting. I was not agreeing with the way the death scene was shot. For me, only when I saw it on screen, I felt that I was so wrong. At one point when we were fighting, Ramu said, ‘Anurag, whenever you make a film, put all the logic and how somebody is killed. Right now, you are not making this film. Can we just shoot?’”

There were also rumours about Ram Gopal Varma starting the shoot of Satya with an incomplete script. Talking about the same, Anurag said, “As far as my memory serves, we did write something. But after two days of shoot, Ramu said that this is not the film he is making and he threw it away. I remember whatever we wrote in the initial days was scraped completely. And then, the film was written and made on the go. Scenes would be written every day. We literally used to put the paper on a sofa and write the dialogues for the day.”

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