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Why should you watch Gully Boy

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  Gully Boy came in the Spring of 2019 and the film promos started airing in the winter of 2019 itself. The promos simply blew you off as one was not exposed to the kind of stuff being shown in those. There was rap and there was music and there was backdrop in which it was all being shown and then you started to think what is this?  And then it starts working on you that Gully Boy (and Zoya and only Zoya's vision) is a visionary film and for an audience like India, bringing the context mainstream is worthy of a lot of accolades that Zoya deserves. In the filmography of Zoya, a film of this kind was completely off chance and it might be right or wrong to say; but could have been way out of her comfort zone. She was dabbling in a genre where purists often chided her for siding with the SoBo and their tastes. I would guess that is wrong to put it; as her directorial debut (Luck by Chance) was a completely different take and to me that still remains her best. Gully Boy is an out ...