“Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster” book by Uday Bhatia

Uday Bhatia has authored a new book titled “Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster”, which has been released.

• The book was published by HarperCollins Publishers.
• The book highlights the iconic Indian film “Satya” and its legacy.

About the book

In 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma’s film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It kicked off a new wave of Hindi gangster films that depicted a vital, gritty side of Mumbai, rarely shown in mainstream cinema until then.

More than two decades later, it has become an iconic film. When it was released, the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognize more than a couple of names in the film’s credits. Today, it reads like an honor roll – Anurag Kashyap, Manoj Bajpayee, Vishal Bhardwaj, Saurabh Shukla.