It has to be said that the most interesting character of the lot is Safeena and Bhatt plays her very well. This is particularly effective as a narrative perspective because, as a filmmaker, Akhtar absolutely wants all those watching to feel what the characters are going through. This is because you are positioned very cleverly amongst the community itself almost. It can be said that, as a viewer, you fall for this story fully and hard вЂ“ the love, the struggle, the dreams, the realities. This is all aside from the actual storytelling that happens, showing the rapper community within Mumbai. The colour palette and the positioning of some of the shots show the different world that the slums are and the communities that live there. The carefully etched characters and scenes come together as a treat to the senses somewhat. You almost immediately invest in the feelings, the situations, the shortcomings, the positivies and the negativities alike. Her screenplay, along with Reema Kagti, makes the audiences be absorbed the world of Murad and the other characters. But is this really enough to get him noticed in the way he wants to be?ДЄkhtar seems to arrive all over again with this film. This leads to further bigger opportunities after he meets Sky (Kalki Koechlin). While at college, he sees a rapper performing and he eventually gets drawn into an opportunity the rapper is providing, impressing on his first meet with him. He mixes with those around him and also has a girlfriend in Safeena (Bhatt) who he used to go to school with. However, staying in a slum isnвЂ™t the be all and end of all of his life, in his own head. Murad (Singh) lives in Dharavi in a slightly dysfunctional family. Does it deliver all it sets out to and do audiences come away feeling everything they should? Zoya Akhtar take the reigns again for this film which shows a depiction of a wannabe rapper trying to break out from his background and make it big. The reviews from the Berlin International Film Festival 2019 have been positive and this has only fuelled the excitement for the film, which brings together Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt for the first time.

ValentineвЂ™s Day came and went and вЂGully BoyвЂ™ is now in cinemas, following a grand premiere in Berlin last weekend. Feels like вЂGully BoyвЂ™ has taken an age to arrive but itвЂ™s finally here.

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