Ardh Satya

Ardh Satya is a film about a principled sub-inspector who runs afoul of the corrupt politician-police-mafia trio, leading to his suspension and eventual killing spree to take down a local don. Ardh Satya is a 1983 Indian Hindi-language Crime Drama motion picture featuring Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar, Naseeruddin Shah, Sadashiv Amrapurkar and Akarsh Khurana. The movie is inspired from Short story Surya by S. D. Panvalkar. Ardh Satya was Produced by Manmohan Shetty and Pradeep Uppoor. Ardh Satya is written by Vijay Tendulkar and Vasant Dev and it is directed by Govind Nihalani. Ardh Satya was released on 18th November 1983 and takes a screen time of 130 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Ardh Satya was made on a budget of ₹67 lakh and it was a super hit at box office gross of ₹1 crore. The screenplay for the movie was written by Vijay Tendulkar. Cinematography was done by Govind Nihalani and editing by Renu Saluja. The music was composed by Ajit Verman. At the 1984 Filmfare Awards It won 2 awards including: Best Screenplay and Best Story. At the 1984 National Film Awards It also won an award for Best Feature Film in Hindi. At the 1984 National Film Awards It also won an award for Best Actor (Om Puri).