![]() Starting with Gully Boy, the story of a Rapper from the slums, the rap wars in abandoned buildings and rap as a medium of protest against deprivation and inequality in societies. This is a two part series analysing these movies and its undercurrents which works in more deceptive fashions augmenting frameworks of oppression. These movies are not audacious to challenge the repressive social structures nor are they in any way empowering the people that they stand for. ![]() They are a shallow coloured reflection of the true stories they purport to be depicting. They have been packed and packaged for urban consumption and is filled with the upper class ideas of villages slums patriarchy and caste. But they are deeply flawed and also carry stereotypes of the past in more insidious forms.
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