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It began with dinner in 2015. The musician Ankur Tiwari, who worked for MTV Indies' television channel met his old friend Zoya Akhtar for a meal. A video featuring Naezy and the editor Anand Subaya, a mutual friend of both, showed Akhtar in a conversation. The director of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and of Dil Dhadakne Do asked Tewari to put her in touch with Naezy. At the time, she and her co-author Reema Kagti were already thinking about the story of a rapper from Mumbai, although they still do not know this world.
From this evening in Mumbai, one of the most anticipated films of the year and its soundtrack. Gully Boy examines the Mumbai hip hop scene through Murad of Ranveer Singh, rapper of the slums of Dharavi. In keeping with Akhtar's ambition to make the film as accurate as possible about it, it was decided to choose Singh rap for his character and ensure that the soundtrack is composed by hip hop artists rather than by a traditional Bollywood composer. "I was really excited because it would make the film more authentic," Tewari told Scroll.in . "I thought the artists on the stage should have deserved it."
The huge 18-song soundtrack involves about 54 contributors, including rappers from across the country, DJs, music producers and beatboxers. As musical supervisor, Tewari worked in the studio with this diverse group of artists in order to "bring the two worlds of hip hop and Bollywood together". Gully Boy will be released on February 14 after a premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.
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In addition to Tewari, the other key contributor to the music of Gully Boy is a multi-instrumentalist, Karsh Kale, who joined the project at the end of November 2018. In addition to be part of two songs, Kale composed the background score with Salvage Audio Collective, a musical production group consisting of six artists.
Neither Tewari nor Kale are easily badociated with hip hop. While Tewari is known for her work mainly based on guitar and blues and rock, Kale is badociated with electronic music and fusion. Tewari attributes her expertise from the Mumbai hip hop scene to her days as head of MTV Indies programming. As for Kale, it was natural for him to join the film because of his childhood.
"Having grown up in Queens, New York, during the power outage, I saw hip hop being born as Afrika Bambaataa, Whodini and Rick Slick gave birth to the genre," Kale said. Scroll.in "It was a music that came from oppression, that's why hip hop is respected, but these guys were poor and famous, not rich and famous, just like the stage of Mumbai, and I realized that it was a project to which I could bring a lot of my experience, since I knew the background of this music. "
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One of the three non-hip-hop songs of the film, Song Train, was a composition that Kale, Tewari and Midival Punditz had composed several months earlier. Akhtar liked the melody and included it in the soundtrack. "It's a healing anthem that celebrates life," Kale said of the song sung by him and Raghu Dixit. "On the lyrical side, the story of the song and the movie fits that perfectly."
Kale is also a co-composer of Kaby Kab Talk's hip-hop song featuring Singh's rap and the voice of Vibha Saraf. Like Song Train this one also existed as an idea with Tewari and Kale before the movie. Rapper Kaam Bhaari joined the group as a songwriter and gave the song its final form.
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The film and the soundtrack were both shaped by the contributions of Naezy and Divine, the two artists who inspired the character of Murad. "Zoya ma'am and our worlds are poles apart," Naezy said. "I helped her find and talk to the rappers in our gullies, then to the lyrics, the script and the dialogue."
In tribute to their contribution, Tewari included Mere Gully Mein in the soundtrack. Originally a 2015 song hit by Divine and Naezy and produced by Sez on the Beat, Mere Gully Mein was the hit of Mumbai's hip hop scene. The version of Gully Boy with additional verses, comes with Singh's rap. His video, in which Murad (Singh) and Sher (Siddhant Chaturvedi) put themselves in the place of Naezy and Divine, pays tribute to the original video.
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Five of the 13 hip-hop tracks in the film are hit by Singh for his character Murad. Divine rap for Sher, who frames Murad in the film. Many other rappers, such as MC Altaf, MC TodFod, 100 RBH, Maharya, Noxious D, Blitz, Desi Ma, Ace of Mumbai, Sofia Thenmozhi Ashraf and Kaam Bhaari, lend their voices. The lyrics are, among others, from Divine, Dub Sharma, Tewari and Javed Akhtar.
To create a variety of rhythms to complete the rap couplets, Tewari had music producers from the contemporary Indian hip hop scene, such as Sez on the Beat and Dub Sharma, as well as the old hands Rishi Rich and Ishq Bector . "The common thing between new and old was their zeal to get out of their comfort zone," Tewari said. He cited the example of Rishi Rich, formerly known for his rhythmic-blues-meets-bhangra work, and who was now trying to reinvent himself in India after returning from the UK.
The songs are out of the script and are not considered as placeholders. "Some songs exist in the background, others in the foreground, others not more than 10 or 15 seconds," said Tewari. Asli Hip Hop a bomb of 1 minute and 40 seconds. Apna Time Aayega is a hip-hop song with a punk soul, in which the oppressed states that he is here to stay. On the other hand, Kab Se Kab Tak and Doori cast a contemplative gaze on Murad's inner life.
Jingostan composed and composed by Dub Sharma, is about jingoism causing tears in the fabric of the country. The carnatic rhythms of percussionist Viveick Rajagopalan bring texture to India 91 so called because "91 is the code [international dialling] of India and that this song brings together rappers from around the world. -mer and Mumbai, "said Tewari. Ek Hee Rasta and Doori Poem recited by Ranveer Singh. The latter was written by Javed Akhtar, while the hip hop piece based on it contains additional lyrics of Divine
A song that already has some heat behind it is Azaadi . Divine hits on a groove of 2016, Dub Sharma, created by sampling the former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union, Kanhaiya Kumar, on the JNU campus. "We used the song in the context of fighting economic disparities in our film and it has nothing to do with JNU," Tewari said.
A bigger sound universe that leads to hip hop and surrounds it is necessary, explained Kale. , "Just like the disco theme Saturday Night Fever had a traditional score by David Shire". This philosophy also influences the soundtrack.
For example, Goriye composed by Prem-Hardeep, who recruited Kala Chashma for Baar Baar Dekho (2016). ), almost looks like a parody of a Punjabi hip hop song. "To understand the context from which Mumbai's hip-hop originates, you need music for the environment above all," Kale said.
The face (and voice) of the film's musicians is Ranveer Singh. The actor's well-known affinity for rap is partly why he was hired to play the role, Tewari said. At first, however, Tewari was skeptical about Singh's ability to drop verses, as a rapper from Mumbai would.
"But when he came to the studio auditioning for the first time, I realized that he was completely nuts. He had formed WhatsApp groups with the rappers and frequented them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He walked with Morad, accompanied by many boys, while listening to Junglee Sher and Mere Gully Mein on the boom box. His style, style and style had all changed in a few weeks. "
Singh began to bond with Naezy and the other rappers in 2015, before the actor signed up for Gully Boy . "After making his voice heard on my voice in a song called Birju he met us, Divine and me," Naezy recalls. "We started hanging out. He described our jargon, the way we sit and move. "
Divine and Naezy then guided a half-ready Singh about details, such as how to hold a microphone and the distance to be rapped. "In the first recording, Ranveer jumped in the air and did his thing, which is largely a success in the film," said Tewari. "I put four microphones in the room, so at least one would hear his voice. He had to unlearn all of this.
The rappers who wrote the lyrics of Murad 's songs played demo versions and first sent them to Tewari "to learn how to Ranveer the flow". The latest songs are the product of continuous studio sessions with Singh, Tewari, rapper and producer.
"Ranveer would mold according to demos and improvisation," Tewari said. "Unlike the way a lot of music is made these days, along with the composer, lyricist and corresponding singer on Skype, the music of Gully Boy was created in the old."
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Although Ranveer Singh was one of the most prominent actors in Hindi cinema, Kale observed that there was "no superiority complex" in his interactions with hip hop artists. "He knows what these guys did, they built skyscrapers out of nothing," Kale said. "Before entering Bollywood, the rappers of Mumbai were already famous, attracting crowds of 15 to 20,000 people per show. This film will live or die because of the legitimacy of what it represents. He does not need Bollywood's approval because he has already received one. "
A day will come when rappers will be invited to perform at Indian weddings," hip hop Hopter told Scroll.in in 2018. The day could be close, says Naezy, who makes part of the vast majority of the Indian hip-hop community who put all their weight behind Gully Boy .
"Before the scene that started in 2014, hip hop was considered something of "idiotic," observed Naezy, "With YouTube, we could only reach 50 to 60% of people, and with Gully Boy the general public will know it, the basement will find an exhibition." [19659033]
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