Edited excerpts:Excel Gully Boy director Zoya AkhtarAmong the many things Gully Boy achieves is that it helps in mainstreaming a subculture that has existed purely on the margins. So you are saying the intention wasn’t to brown-face him so he looked like he lived in a slum? For someone like Amrita Shubhash (who plays Ranveer’s mother), she’s young but she looks like she’s lived. My theory is that characters in my film don’t look fake rich, there is an authenticity to their wealth. Let’s say, with Ranveer’s mother, she’s tolerating the abuse.

Source: Huffington Post February 21, 2019 09:11 UTC