A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 17 nominations
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
- IPS Majmudar
- (as Nawazuddin Siddique)
Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub
- Sadiq
- (as Zeeshan Ayub)
Saharsh Kumar Shukla
- Popat
- (as Saharsh Shukla)
Storyline
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- TriviaFollowing military tensions between Pakistan and India in 2016, various Pakistani artists were banned from working in India. There was similar pressure applied on the makers of Raees to replace Pakistani actress, Mahira Khan. The film's producer, Farhan Akhtar refused to do so and the female lead remained the same.
- GoofsWhen Jairaj's hit man tries to kill Raees from rooftop Raees wasn't wearing his spectacles glasses. Without his glasses it should be impossible to spot the hit man and throw something to disarm the hit man.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, this film was seen for advice prior to its submission for formal classification. The distributor was advised that the film was likely to be classified 15 uncut but that their preferred 12A classification could be obtained by reducing a number of scenes of strong bloody violence. When the film was submitted for formal classification most of the scenes highlighted at the advice stage had been acceptably reduced. However, one scene had not been acceptably reduced and further cuts were therefore required in that scene. An uncut 15 classification was available.
- ConnectionsFeatures Kaala Patthar (1979)
- SoundtracksLaila Main Laila
Music by Kalyanji Veerji Shah & Anandji Veerji Shah (as Kalyanji-Anandji), Ram Sampath
Lyrics by Shyamalal Babu Rai, Javed Akhtar
Performed by Pawni A. Pandey (as Pavni Pandey)
Featured review
Nawaaz did good, Mahira is illecebrous in those outfits but watch out for the cartoonish parkour sequence done by the racist actor who endorses fairness creams.
I saw this film with my family in a theater.
Used to watch a tv serial with my wife starring Mahira n had been a fan of her since.
It is about a poor kid who works for some shady guys, later progresses n starts working for a bigger syndicate. One fine day the grown up boy wants to start his own business n splits from the syndicate. Nothing new, except for some good one liners, good performance by Nawaaz as the cop hell bent on taking down all the bootleggers.
SRK is better doing these kinda roles n not running around the trees with his open arms.
One very bad sequence of parkour. SRK running on rooftops is silly coz it wasn't executed well. It looked too fake n very lousy.
Watch District b13, Yamakasi, Tracers, Casino Royale's chase sequence, Chris Brown's parkour sequence from Takers.
The shot gun scenes were well shot.
I am a fan of action sequences with shot guns.
I still enjoy Steve McQueen's The Getaway shot gun sequence.
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- Fella_shibby
- Jan 25, 2017
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,262,954
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,798,379
- Jan 29, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $26,385,310
- Runtime2 hours 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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