Bajpayee, who has acrophobia, was apprehensive while filming a scene for two hours where he is standing at the edge of a cliff.[26] Satya's climactic scene was filmed during Ganesh Chaturthi, when the team recreated the Juhu beach with about 500 junior artists.[27] The song "Kallu Mama" was filmed by Varma himself because the cinematographer was absent on the day of the shoot.[3] The film's final scene to be shot, the song was largely improvised because the actors had been drinking.[26] Satya was filmed in 50 days.[7] The scene in the beginning of the film where Manjrekar and Bappu murder a film producer on a busy street was shot on a set; the street was created inside the studio, with parked cars belonging to the film crew.[28] The first cinematographer was the American Gerard Hooper, recommended to Varma by Kannan Iyer (who had written Daud).[29] Hooper roamed Mumbai, filming the city even when no shooting was scheduled.[5] However, he could not devote enough time to the project and left when it was thirty percent complete.