GULLY BOY FULL CAST, RATINGS, COLLECTION AND STORY
(GULLY BOY) CAST:-
Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Vijay Raaz, Amruta Subhash, Sheeba Chaddha, Vijay VermaDirector: Zoya Akhtar
Rating: 3 Stars (Out Of 5)
Gully Boy box office collection Day 3:
Gully Boy is doing astounding business at the box office. On Friday, which was a working day, the film earned Rs 13.10 crore, taking the total collection to Rs 32.50 crore.
Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt starrer Gully Boy is doing astounding business at the box office. On Friday, which was a working day, the film earned Rs 13.10 crore, taking the total collection to Rs 32.50 crore. It kicked off its theatrical run with Rs 19.40 crore.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted the film’s figures. He wrote, “#GullyBoy dips in metros [marginal] and mass circuits/Tier-2 cities [maximum] on Day 2… Day 3 [Sat] and Day 4 [Sun] should witness substantial growth at metros [target audience]… Strong *extended* weekend on cards… Thu 19.40 cr, Fri 13.10 cr. Total: ₹ 32.50 cr. India biz.”
On Saturday and Sunday, the film should pick up considerably since it is the weekend and Gully Boy has generated strong word-of-mouth promotion. Directed by Zoya Akhtar, Gully Boy is written by Akhtar herself and Reema Kagti. Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Vijay Raaz appear in supporting roles.
Gully Boy first premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. It is a musical drama loosely based on the life of street rappers Divine and Naezy. The two rappers have also written songs, given music and sung for the film.
SONGS(GULLY BOY):-
STORY(GULLY BOY)
Despair and drudgery hound Murad Ahmed (Ranveer Singh), the protagonist of Gully Boy, Bollywood's first true-blue street rapper musical. The Dharavi boy's enervating frustrations translate into simmering rage, which he then channels into caustic hip hop harangues. Kyun lagta hai yeh bustee ek andha kuan hain (Why do I feel this slum is a dead end), he writes in his worn-out notebook. That line is a rhetorical question. The answer is blowing in the wind.
Murad, caught in a cycle of poverty and bleakness, recognizes - and embraces - rap poetry as a ticket out of the hellhole he calls home. But there's no poetry in his perfunctory life in a cramped tenement. His snappish father (Vijay Raaz), who has brought home a second wife without so much as a by your leave, is a chauffeur who hopes education will set his son free. But Murad, who attends college lectures when he isn't on clandestine dates with his fiercely possessive girlfriend Safeena Firdausi (Alia Bhatt) or hanging out and occasionally apathetically flouting the law with his pals Moin (Vijay Verma) and Salman (Nakul Sahdev), has other ideas.
The principal conflict point in Gully Boy, written by Reema Kagti and director Zoya Akhtar, is predicated on the seemingly unbridgeable gap between Murad's 'khwaab' (dream) and the overwhelming 'aaju baaju ki asliyat' (the reality around him), which his defeatist father never tires of reminding him of. Late in the film, the titular hero's maternal uncle (Vijay Maurya, also the film's dialogue writer) verbalizes the boy's destiny: "naukar ka beta naukar banega(a servant's son can only be a servant)".
Murad, caught in a cycle of poverty and bleakness, recognizes - and embraces - rap poetry as a ticket out of the hellhole he calls home. But there's no poetry in his perfunctory life in a cramped tenement. His snappish father (Vijay Raaz), who has brought home a second wife without so much as a by your leave, is a chauffeur who hopes education will set his son free. But Murad, who attends college lectures when he isn't on clandestine dates with his fiercely possessive girlfriend Safeena Firdausi (Alia Bhatt) or hanging out and occasionally apathetically flouting the law with his pals Moin (Vijay Verma) and Salman (Nakul Sahdev), has other ideas.
The principal conflict point in Gully Boy, written by Reema Kagti and director Zoya Akhtar, is predicated on the seemingly unbridgeable gap between Murad's 'khwaab' (dream) and the overwhelming 'aaju baaju ki asliyat' (the reality around him), which his defeatist father never tires of reminding him of. Late in the film, the titular hero's maternal uncle (Vijay Maurya, also the film's dialogue writer) verbalizes the boy's destiny: "naukar ka beta naukar banega(a servant's son can only be a servant)".
Gully Boy delivers a nudge here and a wink there rather than all-out hammer blows. The hero and his ilk sing about personal challenges, societal ills and perfidious politicians, but steer clear of outright provocation. Even the Azaadi number, appropriated from a political arena occupied by free-thinkers alarmed at the multiple systemic ills that beset the nation, is overlaid on sequences of Murad and his automobile repairman-mate stealing cars, sails by without stirring the pot too much.
Murad's street patois is convincing enough. But given the softening of the angry soul of underground rap, how authentic and exhaustive a reflection of Mumbai's street sounds is the hip-hop that we hear in the film? The adroit directorial touches and the generally thoughtful writing, best reflected in the delineation of the hero's romantic interest, create an ambience in which it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the angst of the have-nots may have been window-dressed a tad out here for mass consumption. Well, to be fair, the film has a telling sequence in which Murad is dragged by Sky and a couple of her associates into defacing departmental store windows with strategically drawn graffiti. I didn't know you are into art, too, Murad remarks. This isn't art, it's 'jung' (war), Sky replies. The film doesn't evolve into one.
Murad's street patois is convincing enough. But given the softening of the angry soul of underground rap, how authentic and exhaustive a reflection of Mumbai's street sounds is the hip-hop that we hear in the film? The adroit directorial touches and the generally thoughtful writing, best reflected in the delineation of the hero's romantic interest, create an ambience in which it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the angst of the have-nots may have been window-dressed a tad out here for mass consumption. Well, to be fair, the film has a telling sequence in which Murad is dragged by Sky and a couple of her associates into defacing departmental store windows with strategically drawn graffiti. I didn't know you are into art, too, Murad remarks. This isn't art, it's 'jung' (war), Sky replies. The film doesn't evolve into one.
Posts
2 Comments
Wow
ReplyDeleteNice yaar
ReplyDelete