What is Gully Boy's IQ Score?

Gully Boy has an IQ Score of 137/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Stimulating tier. The score breaks down to 35/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 33/50 Educational Value, and 35/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Gully Boy educational?

Gully Boy is moderate on educational value, 33/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Gully Boy , IQ Score 137/200

Gully Boy has an IQ Score of 137/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-23·Methodology

dramamusic

137/ 200

Stimulating

Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

Cinematic Score/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
Cinematic Score: composition quality, emotional impact, and how the music integrates with the work. Does not affect the IQ Score.

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The Verdict

Best forHip-hop listeners curious how a Bronx-born form mutates into Hindi-Marathi flow in Dharavi

Skip ifYou want a breezy underdog musical; the class immobility here is drawn without softening

Use it asA window into art crossing languages, with Ranveer Singh actually rapping his verses

Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

Zoya Akhtar's hip-hop drama follows Murad, a Dharavi slum kid who finds his voice through underground Mumbai rap. The screenplay (Reema Kagti co-writing) draws on real-life MCs Divine and Naezy, and Ranveer Singh learned to rap in Hindi-Marathi-English flow rather than lip-syncing.

Educational about how scarcity and class immobility actually structure the lives of 65% of Mumbai, and about the way an art form imported from the South Bronx mutates to fit a different language's prosody.

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