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Flipsyde stuck to their guns,   lot more noise out there than   storytelling skills.” Ask him   lead actor Ranveer Singh’s   was focused on a small hood
              honing a distinct sound   before. But it all comes down   whether he’s heard about the   character Murad rapping in   in India, I could still identify
              that is surprisingly over-  to the realness of what you’re   burgeoning hip-hop scene in   the car. “I lived that scene.   with it in California,” he adds.
              looked. Ferreira calls We The   doing. If you’re putting your   India and Ferreira is quick   Only I wasn’t in the car at   Booked to perform at
              People “ahead of its time.”   soul into it, it will shine for   to praise Bollywood hip-hop   work, I was in west Oakland   Orange Festival by New Delhi
              He however adds, “If you   somebody.”           movie Gully Boy. “I know it   with a broken-down car at a   company Six Degrees Arts,
              listen to bands like Imagine   Even now, Ferreira says   was fiction but I come from   gas station. Rapping to keep   Flipsyde coming back to India
              Dragons and Twenty One   that Flipsyde are regularly   hip-hop and I could see the   my head from exploding, or   after 13 years is more or less
              Pilots, they’re not too far off   working on their craft, from   realness in it. That’s how I   exploding someone else’s. A   surprising. Ferreira says that’s
              from where we started. The   Lopez’s production skills to   know some of the rappers in   few years after that we formed   not where it ends. “It’s gonna
              internet has turned every   the vocalist’s own induction   that movie were real rappers.”   Flipsyde. So, congratulations   be a fun show with a lot of   RICHARD HAICK
              individual into their own   into the Sundance Screen-  He says he was particularly   to the people who made that   energy and some surprises.”
              record company so there is a   writer’s Lab to “sharpen my   awed by the scenes involving   movie because even though it   ANURAG TAGAT


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