page_title: Gully Boy
section_title: Marketing and release
hierarchical_section_title: Gully Boy / Marketing and release
caption_attribution_description: کوردی: درووشمی کاتی منیش دێت، گەلی بۆی ... مومبای English: Gully Boy film, Mumbai. Apna Time Ayyega (My time will come)
context_page_description: Gully Boy is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film directed by Zoya Akhtar, and written by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti. The film is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani, Zoya Akhtar and Farhan Akhtar under the banners of Tiger Baby Films and Excel Entertainment productions, with Nas as an executive producer. It stars Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, and features Kalki Koechlin, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Vijay Varma, Amruta Subhash and Vijay Raaz in supporting roles. Inspired by the lives of Indian street rappers Divine and Naezy, the film is a coming-of-age story about an aspiring street rapper from the Dharavi slums of Mumbai.
  Principal photography for Gully Boy began in January 2018 and wrapped up in April 2018. It was premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2019 and released on 15 February 2019 to positive reviews from critics. With a global gross of over ₹238 crore, it emerged as the seventh-highest-grossing Hindi film of the year. It was selected as the Indian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
context_section_description: Gully Boy was confirmed to be releasing on 14 February 2019 by
  Alia Bhatt. The first look official poster of the film released on 1 January 2019 and reconfirmed the release date to be 14 February 2019. Two new theatrical posters revealing looks of lead actors of the film unveiled for the public on 2 January 2019. The trailer announcement was made on 4 January 2019 with a small teaser in which Ranveer Singh is seen rapping. The official trailer of the film was released on 9 January 2019.
  The film has been selected in Berlinale Special section of 69th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was screened on 9 February 2019 for its world premiere at the festival.  It was released in India on 14 February 2019 on 3,350 screens and in overseas market on 751 screens, with a worldwide count of 4,101 screens.
  Some writers speculated about similarities between Gully Boy and the Eminem-starer 8 Mile (2002). Writer Aditya Magal in The Quint calling it, though appreciating the movie as entertaining, after outlining what he considers the many similarities, "an engineered, Indianized version of 8 Mile", while journalist Rachna Tyagi of The Week, more harshly, as she rates it 2.5/5, terms it "a copycat Indian version." Denying the claims, director Zoya Akhtar responded that "I get it (the comparison). I totally understand it, because that's the reference point and that's what they've seen so, that's the immediate reference point and people here just love to do that."
caption: Graffiti of Apna Time Aayega in Mumbai
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