So after all this examples, we could definitely argue that Bollywood movies are becoming, day-by-day, as Hollywood movies, portraying the struggle of Indians, and promoting the life of the slum. One of the most important scenes in the movie is where at the beginning of the movie we see a guide tourist with foreigners marching in the slum, taking pictures around, and giving them the opportunity to go inside one of the houses and check the living condition of the people who lives there. One house is way more than enough to generalize the whole living condition of all the population that lives in the slum. It only needs one scene to understand that each house in the slum is no different from the other.
In fact, it is loosely based on the lives of Mumbai-based Muslim rappers. So when audiences, who like myself have a feeling at the end of the film wishing this very interesting/intelligent story is true, there is some pleasure present, which the other movie can never offer. But what "Gully boy" does go on to prove, which also could have been done in 2008, is that there are some clear signs of progress in India. In this movie, the audience will see a clearly (money-based)/cheaply-successfully growing community in Mumbai who are not involved in criminal activity, people who do live modern and social lives, and there is a sense of connection of the rest of the world. You see that Indians are now wearing (related to Europe) brands. Social clubs and bars have popped up. In fact, (even though there is the existence of) living in the crowded, dirty neighborhoods, Murad is aware of hip-hop culture and knows rap (words in a song) from classic songs.
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