The film sees Murad honing his talent and turnin­g the tensio­n of his home life into musicBERLIN: Two of Bollywood’s biggest stars have premiered “Gully Boy”, a still rare female-directed blockbuster that pokes at enduring taboos, at the Berlin film festival. Murad and Safeena have loved each other since childhood but have to keep their relationship secret from their parents so they meet for illicit trysts. I was born to do ‘Gully Boy’: Ranveer Singh“My character Safeena, I don’t think that she has a problem wearing her hijab and I don’t think she has a problem with her culture. “I just realised there’s an entire movement called Gully Rap — gully meaning street, lane. They did suffer a backlash but they shifted the consciousness and I thank them for that.”Read full story

Source: The Express Tribune February 10, 2019 16:55 UTC