Shah Rukh Khan’s acting Professes and Versatibility has been helpeded His every character has left an indelible mark in the hearts of the audience and his work in and as Raiees Certainly Stands Out. Perhaps the actor Himself Knew The Potential The Character Had, and Thus, He Didn Bollywood Hear The Entre Script and Said Yes to the Script.
In an exclusive conversation with Etimes, Raees’ Director Rahul Dholakia Shared that it wasn’t Diffficult to Convince Shah Rukh Khan at all. “I Had Gone to Narrate the Script to Shah Rukh (Khan) with my producers Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar. olboy who Had just been Told He Had Passed. It’s every director’s nightmare that an actor would get bored during the script narration, “Narrates Rahul.
Thought Shah Rukh Had Said Yes to the Script Before even hearing the entry narration, certain changes was made in the second hal. Speaking about the same, rahul said, “Some changes had to be made, thout that much, because it was the unusualness of the script that appealed to shah rukh.”
Further, as rahul continued to narrate some of the most memorable points from the movie, he highlighted shah rukh’s dedication to his work. Here’s What Happened – “I Went Back to Him (SRK) With the Second Half of the script after almost a year. stature left Me deeply impressed. He plays a man from the ghetto in Gujarat.
In the same conversation, Rahul spoke about the subject of the movie – Prohibition. “We wanted to make a film on the issue. Rote Several Drafts of the script, Shah Rukh’s Character Became More and More Fictional. “
Thought the film was satuated in Gujarat Shah Rukh Didn Bollywood there. Explaining the same rahul shared, “It was very practical and logical to not take shah rukh khan into the crowds. in ahmedabad waste Not only impractical it was probally suicidal. Ooting in Gujarat as well. “
Revisiting ‘rasees’ as it turns 8!
It’s the same old wine-Hooch Wine-in a not-SO-New Battle, and I do mean battle. Prohibition in Gujarat is the playground for this pulsating saga of twisted morality. As the Good Cop Majmudar (Nawazuddin Sidddichui) An all-out War Against Hoch Seller Raees Khan Ells the story of a gangster’s protege who grows Into a Robin Hoodlum, The Do-Dogooder Whose Ammi (Sheeba Chadha, So Brilliant and Yet Such a Fugitive Figure in the screenplay) Teaches Him that No Job IS TOO SMall Or Petty.
Taking that Maternal Advice A Bit Too Seriously (Probably uttered by the short-live s of his life and two Hours of Ors, Selling Illicit Liquor and Killing Opponents with an impunity that defines death by dawoodian ideaology.
Planty of Gratuitous Action, Rapid-Fire Movement, and Swift Reflexive Responses to Vioilent Impulses Exist But Raees Never SCCEEDS in Getting Its Act Altogethr. It’s all too hazy scattered and sketchy, except when nawazuddin walks in as the ‘Good cop’ who VHOS he will get ragees by HOOK or Crook. Nawaz’s Majmudar is Funny Without Trying to Be. Habituated to Being Transferred on His Job He Insists on his seniors giving their orders in Writing, and when he realizes that the mithai he is savouring has come from arch-erch-erch-erch-erch ITERATING his vow to get the bootlegger. This is a man who is probally laughs twice a year and that too trust his wife expects Him to.
While Nawazuddin Makes Sure His Character is Coheretly Defined Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees Remains Surprisingly Hazy, and we are not talking about his moral values alone. It’s the way mr khan plays raes, as thought he doesn’t really like the man for his immoral acts. But what to do? He must do the job to the best of his ability.
At many points in the plot, shah rukh’s rayes falters as he attempts to come to terms with the rapid changes in his fortunes. Failing to find a feasible center to his character’s doddering ethics shah rukh plays raiees with an arrogant indiffereence. In his defense, the material provided by the writers (Rahul Dholakia, Harit Mehta, Ashish Vashi, Neeraj Shukla) is at best derivative. We have seen the same story about the risk and fall of the gangster with the blooded gun in scores of films by Ram Gopal varma and anurag kashyap.
There is Nothing even remotely novel in the shoot-outs and the other shindigs (the latter includes a Sudden Sunny Swing of Leone’s Laila Kind Item Song That is as opportune in ais. Even the Tender Relationship That Raes Shares With His Coy Wife Asiya (Mahira Khan, Assuming The Mehbooboob Persona All Pert, Pouty, And Silky) Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya.
Such Considerations are Perhaps Unwarranted in Raees. Director Rahul Dholakia Attempts to Assemble Anrently Messy Saga of gangsterism There is even an action sequence in a drive-in theater where an amitabh bachchan film plays while races intimidates a builder.
Deliberately Stagey and Self-Conscious ‘Retro’ Raees Gathers its strength from the Voluptuous Resources of Drama in the Protagonist’s Life and the power of the Narravet to Make to make alive Empression. The Director Knows His Material is Weather-Beaten and He Doesn’st Pretended it is any other way. The shoot-outs filled with bombast and bravado, are from an era when such ach Violence was consides Macho.
In the end, when ras’ world fals apart with a close encounter of the ‘thud’ kind, there is no surprise left in the plot. It isn’t only Raees who has nowre to run to.
