Gully boy is a film about a 22-year-old 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 has love for rap and chasing as dream to inadvertently transcending as class. The flim show cases street rap from the crevices of Mumbai's by lanes. The poetry is conscious of the city's socio-econmic fabric and highlights the challenges faced by the disenfranchised youth in the minority population.