"Gully boy (गल्ली बाॅय)"
Watched Hindi movie Gully boy (गल्ली बाॅय). Directed by Zoya Akhtar, Produced by Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhta & Ritesh Sidhwani. Writing credits Zoya Akhtar and others. Cinematography Jay Oza. Music Karsh Kale. It stars Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhat, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash, Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Varma & Siddhant Trivedi. I watched this movie with Aditi and Mihika. The movie is about 2 hour 33 min long and was released in Feb 2019.
Murad, son of a driver, lives in Dharavi and studies in college. He is in love with Safina, who comes from an orthodox family. Murad finds release in the rap of rapper M.C.Sher. It inspires him to write rap but Sher refuses to sing.
Why does Sher not want to sing what Murad has written? Will Murad's lyrics go waste? What inspires Murad to write and rap? Will he succeed?
It's said that the story is based on a combination of two real life figures merged into a single character of Murad. It's a success story of a poor boy from the slums of Dharavi who dreams big, had hunger for success and becomes famous rapper. However, it's not a typical raags to riches story. It's a story with a difference.
Ranveer delivers a powerful performance. He plays the college kid (tries hard to look like one) well. Alia plays a bold girl in orthodox Muslim family who wants to have fun. She plays the role easily. Siddhant gives a convincing and realistic performance as MC Sher. These three are ably supported by two Vijay's, Amruta and Kalki. Amruta looks really bad.
A large part of the credit, however, goes to Zoya. She handles direction professionally and with finess. The handling of story is deft. She doesn't let the story drop pace and keeps the audience involved. She is assisted by Karsh Kale who had composed the music. Rap sounds good, but if the movie had nothing but rap, credit goes to music composer of the music beckons hit and not monotonous. Cinematography is good.
Recommend watching.
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