“Gully Boy” is a film about a 22-year-old boy “Murad” (Ranveer Singh) from a ghetto in Mumbai, India. The son of a driver, his parents worked hard to get him educated so that he could have a white-collar job. Meanwhile, Murad realizes his calling to be a rapper. Authentic Hip Hop in India is a recent phenomenon and like anywhere else in the world, is rising from the streets. Art is a distant dream for the colonized poor of India and this story is about Murad’s journey from realizing his love for rap and chasing his dream to inadvertently transcending his class. The film showcases street rap from the crevices of Mumbai’s by lanes. The poetry is conscious of the city’s socio-economic fabric and highlights the challenges faced by the disenfranchised youth in the minority population
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Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
Dimple Chaddha (Parineeti Chopra), a brash 19 year old Delhi college girl falls in love with Sunny Singh, a fitness trainer.
Raina Parulekar (Dipannita Sharma), a 28 year old independent and successful corporate woman in Mumbai does business with an art dealer Deven Shah.
Saira Rashid (Aditi Sharma), a 24 year old sweet, hard working widow in Lucknow makes a new friend, the shy Iqbal Khan.
Three very different girls who each get taken for a lot of money by each of these three men. The problem is that it is actually just one man – Ricky Bahl (Ranveer Singh), a suave and charming con-man who revels in the game and is only after the money.
A chance encounter brings these three women together who vow to take down Ricky Bahl and get their money back. The next step is the actual plan. Enter Ishika Desai (Anushka Sharma), a young and ambitious girl whose street smart ways will one day, very soon, get her to the top. The furious trio, one professional con-man and a girl who loves adventure. The game is set in Goa. The rules will be made as they go along.
Dil Dhadakne Do
Dil Dhadakne Do revolves around an imbalanced Punjabi family on a cruise trip where the film is based on. Ranveer Singh is seen in a character as Kabir, who is a wealthy person by birth. Being a son of a business man, he was raised up to take up the business. But the story reverses, as he is interested in plans and aspires to became a Pilot.
Due to this difference he faces a lot many problems until he meets Farah (Anushka Sharma). She is a girl, who escaped from her home to make her dream over dance come true. She comes across Kabir, which turns his miserable life into bed of roses. Priyanka Chopra is seen as Ranvir sister. She plays an ambitious entrepreneur married to Rahul Bose when she goes on the cruise, but Farhan acts as the third angle to Priyanka-Rahul’s dysfunctional relationship.
Band Baaja Baaraat
Shruti (Anushka Sharma) is a 20-something girl, focused & determined with preplanned ambitions.Bittoo (Ranveer Singh), on the other hand, has no real aim in life.They become partners in their very own “Wedding planning ka bijness”. Together, their friendship & business, enters the ups & downs of the lavish Delhi weddings and while trying to find themselves, Shruti and Bittoo discover each other.
Kill Dil
Once upon a time in North India, two killers – Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar), roamed free. Abandoned when young and vulnerable, Bhaiyaji (Govinda) gave them shelter and… nurtured them to kill! All is normal in their lives until destiny throws free-spirited Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the mix. What follows is a game of defiance, deception and love.