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Why ‘Gully Boy’ and ‘Sonchiriya’ are great movies?
By Dinesh Kamath
What is the similarity in the films
Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy and Abhishek Chaubey’s Sonchiriya? Both have authentic
dialect in their dialogues. Our films generally have Hindustani dialogue to
cater to a pan-Indian audience rather than bring authenticity. But Gully Boy
and Sonchiriya are different. The two have authentic dialogues. the three
components of a script are story, screenplay, and dialogue, These two films
have all three of them.which share a symbiotic Relationships are very well
shown in the two films. Lyrics are simply great in both the films. These two
films also have authentic characters. Gully Boy has Bombaiyya dialect, penned
by Vijay Maurya, in Sonchiriya, Sudip Sharma has penned beautiful Bundeli
dialogue.
I’ll now pass on to you some
information about the two films: Gully Boy and Sonchiriya:
Gully Boy
Gully Boy is a 2019 Indian
Hindi-language musical drama film written by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, and
directed by Akhtar. The film is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar and
Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Tiger Baby and Excel Entertainment
productions, with Nas as an executive producer. It stars Ranveer Singh and Alia
Bhatt, and features Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Vijay Raaz in
supporting roles. Inspired by the lives of Indian street rappers Divine and
Naezy, the film is a coming-of-age story about an aspiring street rapper from
the Dharavi slums of Mumbai.
Murad Ahmed (Ranveer Singh), a
final year college student, lives in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai. His abusive
father Aftab (Vijay Raaz) brings home a much younger second wife, much to the
chagrin of the family. Murad nurtures a fascination with rap music and writes
lyrics to express himself. His longtime girlfriend Safeena (Alia Bhatt) is
training to be a surgeon and routinely meets him in secret. Forced to work part-time
as a chauffeur after his father is injured, Murad continues to write, with his
lyrics informed by the inequalities he observes while on the job. Making the
acquaintance of local rapper Shrikant alias MC Sher (Siddhant Chaturvedi), he
is drawn into performing his lyrics at underground shows and eventually
uploading a video on YouTube.
Berklee College student Sky (Kalki
Koechlin) reaches out to Murad and Sher, offering to collaborate on a new song.
The accompanying video, which is shot in Dharavi, rapidly becomes popular.
Murad shares an intimate moment with Sky, later lying to Safeena about it. When
Safeena finds out, she reacts violently towards Sky by smashing a bottle of
beer on her head. As a result, she is brought in by the police but is not arrested
as Sky doesn't press charges against her. Murad eventually breaks up with
Safeena. As Aftab's violence towards him and his mother escalates, Murad
decides to leave home with his mother and work full-time for his uncle.
Murad and Sher enter a contest to
open for Nas at his Mumbai concert, and Murad advances to the finals after a
successful rap battle. When Sky expresses her romantic feelings for him, he
declines her as he still loves Safeena and decides to reconcile with her.
Murad's confidence grows from interacting with rap fans' appreciation of his
performances, and he finally stands up to his father and uncle when they
belittle his passion. The movie ends with Murad's family and friends watching
as Murad, the winner of the contest begins his opening performance.
The 18-song soundtrack involves an
estimated 54 contributors, which include rappers from across the country,
deejays, music producers and beatboxers, such as Divine, Naezy, Sez on the
beat, Rishi Rich, Dub Sharma, Jasleen Royal, Ace, Ishq Bector, MC Altaf, MC
TodFod, 100 RBH, Maharya, Noxious D, Viveick Rajagopalan, and others. As music
supervisor, Ankur Tewari has worked with these diverse group of artists in the
studio, aiming to “bring the two worlds of hip hop and Bollywood together”. The
film has songs like "Asli Hip Hop", "Mere Gully Mein",
"Doori Poem", "Doori", "Train Song",
"Jingostan Beatbox", "Sher Aaya Sher", "Jahaan Tu
Chala", "Azadi", "Kab Se Kab Tak", "Kaam
Bhaari", "Ek Hee Raasta", "Apna Time Aayega",
"Jeene Mein Aaye Maza", "Har Gham Mein Khushi Hai",
"Jingostan", "Goriye" and "India 91".
Sonchiriya
Sonchiriya (transl. Great Indian
bustard) directed by Abhishek Chaubey and starring Sushant Singh Rajput, Bhumi
Pednekar, Manoj Bajpayee, Ranvir Shorey and Ashutosh Rana. The film presents a
rooted tale set in Chambal. The film was released on 1 March 2019 to very less
screens i.e. 720 in India and 220 in overseas circuit, making it 940 screens
worldwide. The film had generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
The story of film is set in ravines
of river Chambal valley. It tells the tale of dacoits in 1975, who termed
themselves Baaghis, the rebels. Lacchu gives information to Baaghis that a
dowry of tons of gold and cash will be given to the bride by her father so
dacoit Man Singh (Manoj Bajpayee) alias 'Dadda' should raid. Special Task Force
(STF) headed by Inspector Virendra Singh Gujjar (Ashutosh Rana) attacks them
during the loot in which Dadda gets killed. This leads to a split between gang.
Lakhna (Sushant Singh Rajput) wants to surrender to police while Vakil Singh
(Ranvir Shorey) wants to follow baaghi's dharm (way of life) of rebellion. On
run they meet Thakur's wife Indumati Tomar (Bhumi Pednekar) with a girl named
Khushi whom Indumati's family head had raped. Indumati had killed him to save
Khushi and ran away to rescue her and take her to hospital. Indumati's whole
family is chasing her to get her killed. She pleads Baaghis to help her take
Khushi to hospital. Baaghis agree. Indumati's family arrives and tries to take
away Khushi with them. While Vakil Singh agrees to let her go, Lakhna revolts and
disagrees. In this melee, Indumati's own child fires a bullet on Vakil's
brother and kills him by accident. Lakhna and team along with Indumati and
Khushi escape and Vakil Singh vows to chase them and kill. It is revealed that
Maan Singh looted dowry house to save Lacchu's father from inspector Gujjar
knowing very well that it was a trap to kill them. Gujjar had taken him hostage
and promised to free only if Lacchu brings Baaghis to that village for the
police to kill all Baaghis at once and get reward from the government. Midway
to hospital, Lakhna tells Indumati a background story about a curse of killing
innocent children inside a room by mistake led Baaghis' whole group being
killed turn by turn. And that they need to find Sonchiriya (a metaphor for a
'Saviour Girl') to get rid of the curse. Baaghis meet Phuilya dacoit and she
joins Lakhna to save the bleeding girl and take them to Dholpur Hospital. They
are joined again by Vakil Singh and gang in the task. Vakil says "to ward
off the curse we need to save this girl from death, it is a chance to repent.
This girl Khushi is "our Sonchiraiya, our saviour". Lakhna and
Indumati makes to hospital. In the last scene, while the girl is being
hospitalized, Lakhna who, being chased by Gujjar, was hiding behind the tree
comes out to surrender as his task of saving Sonchiriya was finished. But by
the curse, Lakhna is shot dead by Gujjar. In the aftermath, it is revealed that
Vakil Singh has been killed by the police at the railway station, as his corpse
is loaded in a tractor. Later, while traveling towards police station after
killing Lakhna, Gujjar is shot and killed by one of his constable who was
earlier assaulted and insulted by him.
The music of the film has been
composed by Vishal Bhardwaj, while the lyrics have been written by Varun Grover
except two songs "Naina Na Maar" (lyrics By Traditional and recreat
by Ashok Mizaj Badr) and "The Daaku Anthem" (lyrics By Abhishek
Nailwal and music by Ketan Sodha). The film has songs like "Baaghi
Re", "Sonchiraiya", "Ruan Ruan", "Naina Na
Maar", "Saanp Khavega", "Sonchiraiya" (Reprise) and
"Baaghi Re" (Remix).
Now you know why ‘Gully Boy’ and
‘Sonchiriya’ are two great films.
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