Director - Rahul Dholakia
Cast - Shah Rukh Khan/ Nawazuddin Siddiqui/ Mahira Khan
A boy with empty pockets but sharp wit and tall ambition grows up to be a key figure in a booze smuggling empire.
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Young Raees is street smart and when Seth (Atul Kulkarni) needs his booze bottles smuggled through a curfew, Raees volunteers. That is the head start he needs in emulating an Escobaresque life. A kid that flamboyant was bound to grow up to be a Shah Rukh Khan. That he does! But every Escobar needs a Steve Murphy, and that Raees finds in the form of a cop Majmudar (The freakishly awesome Nawazuddin Siddiqui). These two relentlessly stumble upon each other so much so that they begin to develop a grudging admiration for one another.
Raees indulges into some Robin Hood shit in the second half with building a resident colony and doling out stationery supplies to poor kids but the moral compass of the movie is still off. Mahira Khan, Shah Rukh's love interest in the movie is little more than a prop, showing up routinely at dance numbers. Speaking of, there are so many songs in this movie that if you removed them the movie would be half the length it is. And as soothing as Zalima is to the ears right now, the only song that makes sense in the movie is Sunny Leone's item song Laila Main Laila.
Raees is fundamentally flawed by hokey one-liners, tad generic storytelling and an overly romanticized ending sequence. But despite all this, this movie shines through as a Shah Rukh Khan showcase though and offers enough for you to enjoy.
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