For 27-year-old Aaliya, Valentine's Day is a careful quest. Celebrating her relationship is easy. Hiding it for seven years is not.
Ranveer has shown the right instincts in his choice of roles, which he has played with seeming effortlessness, backed with preparation and understanding.
'We hope we will have created a world where music for films appeals to fans across the country, across languages and genres.'
'Gully Boy is a pulsating salute to the new angry India and its youth,' says Aseem Chhabra who watched Zoya Akhtar's movie at the Berlin film festival.
'This is my film and I think only I could have done it.'
Zoya Akhtar's film won an unprecedented 13 awards, the most for any film at any Filmfare awards.
Gully Boy", produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar, featured Ranveer as an up-and-coming rapper who sets out to achieve his dream by rhyming about his life on the Mumbai streets.
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The movie failed to make the cut in the top-10 movies that will advance to the next round of voting at the 92nd Academy Awards.
'Which is your favourite scene in the film?' 'The scene where I get beaten up by the police in the lock-up and my friend Murad (Ranveer Singh) comes to meet me.' 'It was an emotional scene and showed a tough guy like Moeen in a vulnerable state.' 'Also, you witness a deep friendship in that scene.' 'I know the value of friends and I know that a friend can unconditionally help another.' 'It's very reflective of my own life.'
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While Pa Ranjith proved yet again to be the salt of the earth in his land mafia film, Zoya Akhtar took a haphazard route to make something that was hardly rooted in Asia's biggest slum, feels J Jagannath.
Gully Boy is a glorious blend of hip-hop and assured filmmaking, promises Sukanya Verma.
The Mumbai rapper shares his story with Rediff.com's Hemant Waje.
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'If Murad's Mozziness doesn't strike us in the eye, if we see the film as a youth's struggle to break free of the shackles holding him back and not as a Muslim fighting the system, it is because not once in the film does Zoya show him blaming his religion for his low social status or struggle, a temptation many 'progressive' film-makers may have yielded to for it sounds so politically correct,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
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'They are out there, singing about their socio-economic status, their family structures, their politics, the way the system treated them, what they would like to change... and the beauty is that they are positive.' 'They are not bitter or cynical.'
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His character Sasya in She, says Vijay Verma, 'is an extremely repellent character. It does everything that a decent human being wouldn't do.'
In five years, Naezy aka Naved Shaikh went from being a gully boy living in a Mumbai slum to rocking India's underground rap scene. When he started off his rap career with Aafat! in 2014, he knew he would find success. Little did he imagine the obstacles he'd have to encounter.
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'I would never celebrate the success of my songs, be it with Baar Baar Dekho or Dear Zindagi. With Jahan Tu Chala, I made it a point to enjoy its success.'
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'There's deep-seated revenge and at the same time, longing.'
'There should be some angst behind the action.'
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'People now recognise rapping as a profession.' 'We are able to tell our relatives that we rap for a living.'
'I can't wait to see Farhan direct again. We are a collaborating on a project. Hopefully, it would live up to the audiences' and my expectations of Farhan.'
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Don't go by the number, Ranveer Singh says, he is picky when it comes to endorsements. There are some brands he will never endorse. Fairness creams, for example, but he does not turn away from cola and alcohol brands.
'They are the most romantic pair on screen since Rishi Kapoor and Sridevi in Chandni.'
Sukanya Verma quizzes you to find out just how much you know about the movies.
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