Satya (soundtrack)
Satya: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack accompanying the 1998 film Satya directed and produced by Ram Gopal Varma and stars J. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar and Manoj Bajpayee, alongside Saurabh Shukla, Aditya Shrivastava and Paresh Rawal. The soundtrack featured six songs composed by Vishal Bhardwaj and written by Gulzar and released on 3 April 1998 under the Venus Worldwide Entertainment label. Satya: The Sound, the second album featuring the original score composed by Sandeep Chowta was released on 13 November 1998 to acclaim and being considered as one of the finest film scores.
Background
Vishal Bhardwaj composed the six-song soundtrack with lyrics written by Gulzar; it was their second collaboration after Maachis. Bhardwaj recalled that Varma did not want the songs to make his film "impure" and found it challenging to blend the music with the narrative. Since the film had excessive violence Varma told him that he "wanted to balm it with soothing melodies".The first song he composed for the film was "Badalon Se". As Varma liked it, he wanted a similar kind of music, which led him to compose "Geela Ghela Pani" and "Goli Maar ". Later, he also wanted a dance number to which he composed "Sapne Mein", the track was initially composed for Maachis but later replaced with "Chappa Chappa".
Bhardwaj had written temporary lyrics for "Goli Maar " which goes like: "Gham ke neeche bamb laga ke rum udaa de". While Gulzar complimented the tune, he was unimpressed on the lyrics terming it as "rubbish". He rewrote the lyrics for the song which Varma rejected twice. As he did not want to disappoint Gulzar, Varma insisted on screenwriter Anurag Kashyap to convince Gulzar on using Bhardwaj's lyrics, who adamantly refused it. Varma refused on picturizing the song in Gulzar's lyrics and told Bhardwaj to convince Gulzar. Bhardwaj who did not want to betray Gulzar, insisted him to record the song with Gulzar's version after Manoj Bajpayee and other crew members persuaded him.