“Duniya mein sab comfortable hote to rap kaun karta,” says one character, summing up the philosophy of the film. Life is a struggle every inch of the way and the film's underlying message is to learn from your discomforts. It's no mere wish-fulfillment fantasy where everything gets solved magically in the end.
The film is intricately written and directed. Emotional and financial hurdles come in his way and how Murad keeps his faith and realises his dream forms the crux of the film. He further gets a chance to take part in a music contest that could win him ten lakh rupees and a chance to open the concert of an international rapper coming to India. They cut an album with her help which becomes an instant sensation on YouTube. They become friends with Sky (Kalki Koechlin), a musician studying in Berkeley college who wants to introduce Mumbai street sound to the world. Sher becomes his mentor and advises him to listen to his heart and write. He chances upon MC Sher (Siddhant Chaturvedi) in a college fest and feels he too can rap. She's a medical student aspiring to become a surgeon and is in a better financial condition than Murad as her father is a general practitioner. They have been able to keep it clandestine. Murad is in a relationship with Safeena (Alia Bhatt) since they were in school. We come to know that his father has brought in another wife, a much younger woman, much to his mother's chagrin.
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Murad/ Gully Boy (Ranveer Singh) is the son of a driver (Vijay Raaz) studying in college. And the songs feel as if they were moulded by the circumstances faced by the hero and not created by professionals in a posh studio. His love story too is gritty and not the saccharine sweet stuff you see on screen. The claustrophobic bylanes of Dharavi look genuine, the hardships faced by the lead character are everyday hardships of the millions living in slums, in chawls. Written by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar and directed by Zoya Akhtar, the film is as real as they come. So Gully Boy, inspired by the lives of underground rappers Naezy and Divine, comes as a pleasant surprise. The songs more often than not are mere window dressing. But ironically, we don't make genuine musicals. Thanks to the plethora of songs and music, most our films can be said to be musicals.
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