If we were to distill a moral out of Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy it would go something like this: "In life, you don't need to apologize for where you're from and where you want to go. All you need to do is dream and have the conviction to work towards it." A simple moral that most of us have heard throughout our lives from sources ranging from friends and family to the innumerable talking heads on TV and those arbitrary chief guests in our annual days at school.
Most of us have tuned these morality lessons out simply because the people telling us these principles just aren't grippin....