But it must be said that the film does have its moments, thanks to the generous doses of humour, which come to its rescue and which have been well-infused into the film to break away from the monotony of the characters’ mostly humdrum lives. Gully Boy, if watched in isolation, (for all those who have not watched 8 Mile) is quite a mediocre film highlighting the cliched stereotypes of expectations versus reality, women in purdah as opposed to the free woman or juxtaposing the lives of the affluent vis-à-vis the have-nots.
(Need I go on? I’ll leave the rest for you to figure, if you eventually do choose to spend your hard-earned money on watching the film.) Then there is the scene in 8 Mile when Eminem freezes in front of an audience and the exact same thing happens to Ranveer in Gully Boy. In 8 Mile, Eminem, works on the shop floor of a car factory whereas in Gully Boy, Ranveer Singh, works in his uncle’s office. Also, Ranveer does not smoke weed, only cigarettes, but his friend and partner-in-crime, does deal in weed. Though Eminem drives an Oldsmobile Delta in 8 Mile, where he and his friends hang out and smoke weed, Ranveer ends up as a driver and a reluctant car thief in Gully Boy, breaking into cars and taking them out for a spin late at night, just for kicks! And oh, he and his friends also hang out in stationary local trains. In 8 Mile, Eminem has a kid sister and in Gully Boy, Ranveer has a kid brother. If Eminem’s mother (Kim Basinger) is having problems with her boyfriend, in Gully Boy, Ranveer’s mother is having problems with his father (Vijay Raaz) who has married for the second time and brought home his second wife to live alongside his family. In Gully Boy, Ranveer Singh's (Murad) family lives in one of the world’s biggest slums, Dharavi 17, (pronounced Dharavi Satra) and eventually move out.
In 8 Mile, (the title is derived from 8 Mile Road that runs between a predominantly black settlement and a predominantly white settlement in Detroit, Michigan) Eminem’s family is poor, they live in a trailer and are about to be evicted.
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