Daily Times

Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt starrer ‘Gully Boy’s trailer has been widely praised by their Bollywood fraternity, and now Alia’s father Mahesh Bhatt is chiming in, Hindustan Times reports. Tweeting a picture of his daughter, mouthing her now-famous “dhoptungi” dialogue, he agrees with Ranveer’s character and called her a “gundi”. Sharing the picture, he wrote: “Alia is a GUNDI.” In the trailer, there is interaction between Alia and Ranveer when she is defending herself and says this line. We see her smashing a bottle on someone’s head. It is not clear if it is Kalki Koechlin (the other heroine in the film) or someone else. Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, whose trailer was launched on January 9, tells the story of the impossible odds in the life of rapper Divine, who grew up in the slums of Mumbai but went on to become one of the leading rappers of the country.

Published in Daily Times, January 12^th 2019.