Gully Boy Movie Details:
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Genre | Drama Musical |
| Release date | 9 February 2019 (Berlin) 14 February 2019 (India) |
| Running time | 2hr 33min |
| Certificate | U/A |
| Starring | Ranveer Singh Alia Bhatt Siddhant Chaturvedi |
| Directed by | Zoya Akhtar |
| Written by | Story and Screenplay: Reema Kagti Zoya Akhtar Dialogues: Vijay Maurya |
| Produced by | Farhan Akhtar Zoya Akhtar Ritesh Sidhwani |
| Cinematography by | Jay Oza |
| Edited by | Nitin Baid |
| Music by | Songs: See soundtrack Score: Karsh Kale The Salvage Audio Collective |
| Production Company | Excel Entertainment Tiger Baby Films |
| Distributor | Cinestaan AA Distributors |
Gully Boy Movie Cast & Characters:
- Ranveer Singh as Murad Ahmed a.k.a. Gully Boy
- Alia Bhatt as Safeena Firdausi, Murad’s possessive girlfriend
- Siddhant Chaturvedi as Shrikant Bhosle a.k.a. MC Sher
- Vijay Raaz as Aftab Shakir Ahmed, Murad’s father
- Vijay Varma as Moeen Arif
- Amruta Subhash as Razia Ahmed, Murad’s mother
- Ikhlaque Khan as Nasir Firdausi, Safeena’s father
- Sheeba Chaddha as Hamida Firdausi, Safeena’s mother
- Kalki Koechlin as Shweta Mehta a.k.a. Sky
- Ayaan Zubair Rahmani as Safeena’s brother
- Rahul Piske as Chintoo
- Jyoti Subhash as Dadi
- Nakul Roshan Sahdev as Salman
- Shruti Chauhan as Maya
- Vijay Maurya as Ateeq Khan, Murad’s uncle
- Srishti Shrivastava as Albina Dadarkar
- Mallika Singh as Suhani, Safeena’s best friend
- Tina Bhatia as Parveen
- Rahil Gilani as Rishi
- Svar Kamble as Suhail
- Chaitnya Sharma as MC Checkmate
- Jasleen Royal as Juhi
- Michaela Tanwar as Gemma
- Kubra Sait as Scarlett
- Shah Rule as himself
- Sambhav Jain as Bandra Boy
- Manj Musik as rap battle judge
- Omi Kashyap as Driver
- Raja Kumari as rap battle judge
- Bobby Friction as rap battle judge
- DIVINE as himself
- Emiway Bantai as himself
- KR$NA as himself
- Brodha V as himself
- Rohit Sangwan as Editor
- Rahul Bose as a backseat passenger (uncredited cameo)
Storyline:
“Gully Boy” is a film about a 22-year-old boy “Murad” from a ghetto in Mumbai, India. The son of a driver, his parents worked hard to get him educated so he could have a white-collar job. Meanwhile, Murad realizes his calling to be a rapper. Authentic Hip Hop in India is a recent phenomenon and like anywhere else in the world, is rising from the streets. Art is a distant dream for the colonized poor of India and this story is about Murad’s journey from realizing his love for rap and chasing his dream to inadvertently transcending his class. The film showcases street rap from the crevices of Mumbai by lanes. The poetry is conscious of the city’s socio-economic fabric and highlights the challenges the disenfranchised youth face in the minority population.
Gully Boy Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | ₹60–70 crore |
| Worldwide Collection | ₹238.16 crore |
About Gully Boy Movie:
Zoya Akhtar co-opted the story of two Mumbai-based MCs, Naezy and DIVINE, into a musical story portraying a struggle of an aspiring rapper and his surroundings that influence his journey.
Principal photography of the film began on 10 February 2018 and it was wrapped up by April 2018. American rapper Nas was an executive producer for the film.
Gully Boy was premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2019 and released on 15 February 2019 to critical acclaim with praise directed towards the music, cinematography, Akhtar’s direction, storyline, dialogues, performances (particularly Singh, Bhatt, Chaturvedi, Varma) and the social message. With a global gross of over ₹238 crore (US$33.8 million), it emerged as the eighth-highest-grossing Hindi film of the year.
The film was made available as VOD on Amazon Prime Video on 16 April 2019.
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).
It also became the sixth film to win all 4 major awards at the Filmfare Awards (Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress), after Guide (1965), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), Devdas (2002) and Black (2005).
Internationally, it won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea.
It was also selected as the Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
