My two favourite songs from the album and also in the film are Doori (written by Javed Akhtar and Divine, set to the music by Rishi Rich) and Jeene Main Aaye Maza (written and sung by Ankur Tiwari and music composed by him and Mikey McCleary) Jeene Main Aaye Maza plays in the backdrop of a group of rich kids including Kalki Koechlin (playing a small role as Sky an Indian music student from Berklee College in Boston), along with Murad driving around Mumbai at night, spray painting graffiti signs on window displays at upscale stores.
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Through 18 songs (created by 50 plus musicians - rappers, beat-boxers, lyricists like the director's father Javed Akhtar and many songs sung by Singh, the star of the film), that have already captured the imagination of millions of Indians of all ages and not just young folks - the Apna Time Aayega video already has 44 million hits - Gully Boy is a pulsating salute to the new angry India and its youth (the album includes the song Azadi, inspired by the call given out by the former JNU leader Kanhaiya Kumar) who will not be satisfied with false promises of the politicians. But the world Akhtar and Kagti create is also vastly different, original and authentic to the Indian setting. There may be occasional touches of the Eminem film 8 Mile in Gully Boy - the dysfunctional family lives of Murad, the 'Gully Boy' and Jimmy 'B-Rabbit' Smith (Eminem), their desires to break out of the depressing surroundings and finding expression through their own brand of poetry and rhythm. So to counter critics who claimed that she only knows the world of the wealthy elite, Akhtar and her co-author Reema Kagti have created a vastly different universe - a sprawling world of the marginalised - many of them Muslims, living in Mumbai's slums and chawls, and the youth who often channel their frustrations with the system through angry poetry expressed in rap and hip-hop songs. Eventually he will take on the name Gully Boy, his hip-hop moniker.Īkhtar is coming out of two back-to-back films about rich Indians who have all the money in the world to travel on cruise ships on the Mediterranean (and yet they are unhappy), or take deep-sea diving lessons in Spain (and they are still unhappy). And soon - as anyone who follows popular culture in India will know - that will become Murad's anthem.
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