TL;DR – A story about finding your voice through rap in the slums of Mumbai hits just about every beat perfectly.
Score – 4 out of 5 stars
Post-Credit Scene – There is a scene over the first part of the credits
Review –
It has been a while since I have watched a movie about becoming a music
superstar that had any kind of weight and substance behind it. Usually, they are content just to ride on the
fact that people know the music very well, and as long as you drop those
classic songs every now and again people will lap it up. Today we get to look
at a film that doesn’t just rest on its laurels and call it a day, it instead
focuses deeply on what it is to come from nothing and try to make it in a very
competitive world.
So to set the scene, we open in Mumbai, India, specifically the Dharavi slums
on the outskirts of the city, and we start immediately in a moment of tension
when Aftab (Vijay Raaz) brings home a second younger wife, much to the annoyance of both Murad (Ranveer Singh) and his
mother Razia (Amruta Subhash). Murad is working hard at school, working hard on
keeping his relationship with Safeena (Alia Bhatt) on the quiet, but he has a
real passion for rap. In his quiet time, he
watches videos on YouTube and works on his own lyrics. However, he doesn’t have
the confidence to take it to the next level, which is when MC Sher (Siddhant
Chaturvedi) gives him the push he needs.
