Archive · 30 Oct 2025
JD Chakravarthy Reveals Ram Gopal Varma's Alternate Ending for 'Satya'
An actor named JD Chakravarthy talked about an old movie called 'Satya'.
He said the director, Ram Gopal Varma, told him that killing his character off in the movie was the biggest mistake.
The director thinks his character should have lived and gone to Dubai instead of dying.
But, the movie is now super famous and considered a classic, so they can't change the ending.
JD also talked about a new movie called 'Dahini: The Witch' which is about the sad reality of people being wrongly accused of being witches and harmed in some parts of India.
The director got the idea for this movie years ago while working on another project.
The actors and director wanted to make the movie feel very real, like a documentary, to show the truth of these events.
They also discussed how hard it is for smaller, important movies like this to find a way to be seen by lots of people in theaters or online.
JD Chakravarthy shared that 'Satya' director Ram Gopal Varma considers killing his character a mistake.
Varma suggested an alternate ending for 'Satya' where his character would have been sent to Dubai instead of dying.
The film 'Dahini: The Witch', starring Chakravarthy and Tannishtha Chatterjee, addresses the social issue of witch hunting in India.
Director Rajesh Touchriver was inspired to make 'Dahini' after hearing about the prevalence of witch hunting during a documentary shoot in Odisha.
The filmmakers aimed for a realistic, documentary-like approach for 'Dahini' to convey the gravity of the subject matter.
- Who
- JD Chakravarthy (actor)
- What
- Revealed that filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma considers killing off his character in the movie 'Satya' a mistake and suggested an alternate ending.
- When
- Ram Gopal Varma shared this reflection recently.
- Where
- This was revealed in an exclusive interview concerning the film 'Dahini: The Witch'.
- Why
- Ram Gopal Varma believes the character should have been sent to Dubai with Vidya instead of dying, but acknowledges the film's cult status makes such a change impossible now.
- Film
- Dahini: The Witch
- Director
- Rajesh Touchriver
- Stars
- Tannishtha Chatterjee, JD Chakravarthy
- Subject
- Witch hunting in India
- Inspiration
- Overheard conversation about witch hunting in Odisha in 2007-08