February 09, 2019

Bollywood's first hip-hop film

Indian movie director Zoya Akhtar made a movie 'Gully Boy',
Bollywood’s first hip-hop film, starring two of Bollywood’s biggest actors: Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. Gully Boy is a fictionalised account of the burgeoning hip-hop scene in Mumbai. Gully, or “gutter”, rap is a musical sub-genre made by the younger people who live in the sprawling slums of the city; its aesthetic is DIY and its lyrics tackle everything from police brutality to the caste system and even the brutal gang rape of a Delhi woman in 2012. Akhtar, one of Bollywood's few female directors, comprises rap songs and battles composed entirely of gully rap.