#MOVIEREVIEW – #RAEES – (2016)

Today we are here with review of a much delayed movie released this week by the name RAEES (2016) directed by Rahul Dholakia. Raees is starred by Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan & Nawazuddin Sidiqui in lead roles. The movie is allegedly based on the story of Gujarat based Gangster and bootlegger of 1980s & 90s.

PLOT:

Raees (Shah Rukh Khan), a child of a ragpicker widow, early in his school days learns the trade of illegal alcohol in a dry state of Gujrat. After working under a popular liquor smuggler Jai Raj Seth (Atul Kulkarni) in his teenage, he decided to start is own illegal liquor smuggling business.

He was truely inspired by his mother’s quote ‘Koi dhanda chota nahi hota, aur dhande se bada koi dharma nahi hota, jisse kisika bura na ho.’

Due to his ‘Baniye ka dimaag aur Mian Bhai ki daring’ he soon manages to become a big liquor smuggler with the help of corrupt political network and due to his success in his illegal business, he was attracted towards the honest Cop Jaideep Majumdar (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). The cat and mouse chase between two continued till the end.

ANALYSIS:

Like numerous other bollywood movies, Raees is also glorifying the smuggler and a criminal who does the Robinhood types of deeds for the poors and downtrodden by the money made from the illicit means. Raees is also shown helping the kids by providing them books etc., helping ladies to providing them sewing machines and also wants to build housing colony, a hospital and an English medium school for his locality. He also provide food and assistance during the curfew days for his localities irrespective of religion of the locals.

Raees impresses by its great dialogues such as ‘Battery Nai Bolneka’, ‘Dhande mein koi Hindu-Muslim nahi hota’ and ‘Main Dharam ka dhanda nai karta’.

Script wise, the film starts with good pace and become dull in the second half when there is too much of heroism portrayed by Raees. Overall the movie is a good entertainer, involving romance, politics and action and justifies in the end that dhanda tab tak bura nahi hota jab tak isse kisi ka bura na ho.

Background music and songs are nice and complimenting the movie. Laila song of Sunny Leone is far interesting and better than ‘Haseeno ka Deewana’ played by Urvashi Rautela.

WHAT’S GOOD:

Raees is a complete package of action, romance and drama, an entertainer with nothing to take away home.

UNINTERESTING:

As already said the movie has nothing to take away home, as it glorifies the  gangster and negative shade character.

STAR PERFORMANCES:-

Shah Rukh played Raees quite efficiently and his fans will love his recent outing.

Mahira Khan has not nothing special in the movie for which she was assigned.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is in his golden times. He has once again played the role of Cop with full energy and enthusiasm. I love it.

Mahira Khan’s casting has been the talk of the town. Unfortunately, she does nothing special here and for all we care, any Bollywood actress could have pulled off that role. She even fails to emote appropriately in a few scenes.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui is a star. Every scene with this man is loaded with entertainment and he is the true key to why this film is a fun watch. Loved him all through!

Zeeshan Ayyub, also played is role as Sadiq quite efficiently.

FINAL WORDS:

An entertainer with Shah Rukh effect and Nawaz is also a treat to watch. But nothing to take home.

My ratings for this movie is 3.2 out of 5 stars.

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