January 23, 2025 12:54 PM IST
Gully Boy was directed by Zoya Akhtar. It featured Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. Siddhant Chaturvedi also made his film debut with this film.
Gully Boy, starring actors Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, tells the story of Mumbai street rappers and is said to be based on the life of Naezy. However, the rapper says that the film had a heavy mix of fantasy, blurring the lines of reality, which he found annoying. Read also: Neji reveals on Bigg Boss OTT 3 that Gully Boy hurt her a lot: ‘It affected my personal life’
Naezy talks about Gully Boy
During a conversation with Mashable India, Naezy looked back at how Gully Boy impacted his life.
“Gully boy this is all fiction. Nothing is true in us… Like he meets another rapper… all that is nothing. That is fiction. I have given it as per my wish. Woh reality se bahut dur hai (Gully Boy is a fictional story. There is no truth to the… The way he meets the rapper, nothing like that happened. It is far away from the reality),” Naezy said.
He added, “I found this matter a bit annoying and I also felt that what is real is not being told… But then I also felt that perhaps this is what is happening in Bollywood, it is a world of fiction. My father married twice which is shown in the film. Now we know what fiction is, but the audience understands that this is Naezy’s life (I also found it very annoying, thinking that they are not showing the truth. But then thought this is how Bollywood works. My father didn’t get married twice, We know what fiction is, but the audience will think that is the truth of my life).
Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy
Gully Boy was directed by Zoya Akhtar. Siddhant Chaturvedi also made his film debut with this Ranveer-Alia starrer film. The film also featured Vijay Raaz, Vijay Verma, Amrita Subhash, Kalki Koechlin and Sheeba Chaddha in important roles. The film was co-produced by Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment and Zoya Akhtar’s Tiger Baby Films.
The film is based on the life of a rapper born in the slums of Dharavi, Mumbai, and narrates his journey through music. From Divine to Nazi, singers and their lives greatly influenced the story. This film was released in 2019 and was quite successful.
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