As a result, she is brought in by the police but is not arrested as Sky doesn't press charges against her. When Safeena finds out, she reacts violently towards Sky by smashing a bottle of beer on her head. Murad shares an intimate moment with Sky, later lying to Safeena about it. The accompanying video, which is shot in Dharavi, rapidly becomes popular. Making the acquaintance of local rapper Shrikant 'MC Sher' Bhosle ( Siddhant Chaturvedi) whom he saw performing in his college fest, he is drawn into performing his lyrics at underground shows and rap battles and eventually uploading a video on YouTube.īerklee College student Shweta 'Sky' Mehta ( Kalki Koechlin), an evolving musician, reaches out to Murad and Sher after seeing the video, offering to collaborate on a new song. His longtime and overtly possessive girlfriend Safeena Firdausi ( Alia Bhatt) is training to be a surgeon and routinely meets him in secret.įorced to work part-time as a chauffeur after Aftab is injured, Murad starts to write, with his lyrics informed by the inequalities he observes while on the job. Murad nurtures a fascination for rap music. His abusive father Aftab Shakir Ahmed ( Vijay Raaz) brings home a much younger second wife, much to the chagrin of the family.

Murad Ahmed ( Ranveer Singh), a final year college student, lives in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai. It was also selected as the Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Internationally, it won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea.

Gully Boy won a record 13 Filmfare Awards, the most awards for a single film in a year, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Singh) and Best Actress (Bhatt), and it became the second film to win all four acting awards, 21 years after Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). With a global gross of over ₹2.38 billion (equivalent to ₹2.5 billion or US$33 million in 2020), it emerged as the seventh-highest-grossing Hindi film of the year. It was premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2019 and released on 15 February 2019 to critical acclaim. Principal photography for Gully Boy began in January 2018 and wrapped up in April 2018. Inspired by the lives of Indian street rappers Divine and Naezy, the film is a coming-of-age story about an aspiring street rapper from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai. It stars Ranveer Singh in the titular role and features Alia Bhatt, Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Varma, Amruta Subhash and Vijay Raaz in supporting roles. The film was produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Tiger Baby Films and Excel Entertainment productions, with Nas as an executive producer. Gully Boy is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film directed by Zoya Akhtar, and written by Akhtar and Reema Kagti.

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