Every time Safeena is on screen it would be difficult to keep your eyes off her. There’s a strong hint of feminism in spunky Safeena- whether marking territory with her boyfriend or living out her life to fullest. Answer (1 of 4): One of them is Everyday that the protagonist listens to on his earpiece, when Vijaay Raazs character brings the second wife home. Ranveer’s Murad and Alia’s Safeena have such amazing chemistry. It takes you a moment to realise that this guy has never sung professionally in his life. It would be an absolute crime to give due credit to the lead actors here. Most of the time their expressions emote way more than their words ever could. Talking of characters, each actor playing the characters (even the smallest ones) do bring out best shade.
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The length of the movie does seem a tad bit long but with a lot happening and the flow does keep you engaged. Zoya keeps a tight rein throughout the course of the movie.
This is not an outsider’s view of these people and their lives and homes this is a keenly observed portrait, a lived-in world and that’s why it never feels fake. Gully Boy director Zoya Akhtar with writer Reema Katgi creates a beautiful reel world. Every single character’s struggle is so strongly empathetic that you, as a viewer, would start feeling their happiness, grief, excitement or even helplessness.Īlso Read: ‘Gully Boy’ New Song: Ranveer Singh Delivers An Emotional Doori The struggles of everyday life in Mumbai’s much famous slum, Dharavi, is way too real. The best part about this cinematic brilliance is that there is so much happening simultaneously and not once does it feel like it is overloading your senses. That a movie could have been solely based on rapping would have been unbelievable some time ago. The movie is loosely based on real-life street rappers Divine and Naezy and brings out the typical rags-to-riches story in a surprisingly refreshing manner.
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Gully Boy is Ranveer Singh at his best as he sheds his larger than life off-screen persona to remind us that no one can play everyman like he can.Bhubaneswar: Much eagerly awaited Gully Boy released on Thursday, a day ahead of usual Friday, to make full use of Valentine’s Day weekend. And while Zoya Akhtar is unable to resist a picture-perfect ending, the movie does the job when it comes to casting the spotlight on the hitherto unknown but thriving rap culture in Mumbai and its alias-carrying proponents. There is earnestness in the way the story of rap becoming a way out of a dreary existence for a boy from Dharavi is told without resorting to hyperbole. It does employ the standard tropes of a tyrannical father, a repressed mother, a forgiving girlfriend and noble friends as crutches but comes through without overtly dramatizing any of these elements.
The linearity of the script notwithstanding. A superlative Ranveer Singh who as the repressed Murad and then as the increasingly confident Gully Boy lives his character beautifully, an effortless Alia Bhatt who is spunky and childlike at the same time, and a great supporting cast that delivers to a man, make Gully Boy an engaging watch from the get go. So how good is Gully Boy? It ticks a lot of boxes right. Therefore when Amazon Prime listed it, we jumped at the option. Having an overactive toddler on our hands meant that watching it on the big screen was never an option. Gully Boy was a movie we didn’t want to miss. Unshed tears in his eyes, face twitching from the suppressed angst of a slum dweller denied the luxury of dreaming – until rap becomes his voice and his salvation – he delivers a performance that matches the hype.
A close-up shot from the song ‘Doori’ in Gully Boy serves to remind us just how good he is. Because it makes us forget what a fine actor he is. Ranveer Singh does himself a great disservice with the over-the-top, larger-than-reel persona that he projects in real life.