Raees

Directed by Rahul Dholakia
Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani
Farhan Akhtar
Gauri Khan
Written by Rahul Dholakia
Harit Mehta
Ashish Vashi
Niraj Shukla
Starring Shah Rukh Khan
Mahira Khan
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Music by Ram Sampath
Cinematography K.U. Mohanan
Edited by Deepa Bhatia
Production
company
Red Chillies Entertainment
Excel Entertainment
Distributed by Red Chillies Entertainment
Release date 25 January 2017 [1]
Running time 142 minutes [2][3]
Country India
Language Hindi
Box office est. ₹187.29–215.17
crore

Raees is a
2017 Indian
action crime
thriller film
directed by
Rahul
Dholakia and
produced by
Gauri Khan ,
Ritesh
Sidhwani and
Farhan Akhtar
under their
banners Red
Chillies
Entertainment
and Excel
Entertainment . [7] It stars Shah Rukh Khan , Mahira
Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui . [8][9][10]
Raees was said to be based on criminal Abdul
Latif 's life [11][12][13] but, the filmmakers denied
this, saying "The story of the film is a pure work of
fiction, not based on any person; living or
dead." [14][15] The film released on 25 January
2017. [1]
Contents
1 Cast
2 Production
2.1 Filming and development
3 Release
3.1 Critical reception
3.1.1 India
3.1.2 Overseas
4 Controversy
5 Soundtrack
5.1 Track listing
6 Marketing
7 References
8 External links
Cast
Shah Rukh Khan as Raees
Mahira Khan as Aasiya, Raees' wife[16]
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as IPS Jaideep Ambalal
Majmudar[17]
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Sadiq, Raees' friend
and confidante [18]
Sheeba Chaddha as Raees' mother [19]
Master Shubham Chintamani as young Raees
Master Shubham Tukaram as young Sadiq
Atul Kulkarni as Jairaj [20]
Narendra Jha as Musabhai
Jaideep Ahlawat as Nawab, Musabhai's assistant
Uday Tikekar as Pashabhai
Pramod Pathak as Chief Minister of Gujarat
Utkarsh Mazumdar as Doctor, Eye specialist
Loveleen Mishra as Ratna madam, School teacher
Anil Mange as Qasim
Raj Arjun as Ilyas
Bhagwan Tiwari as Inspector Devji
Sunny Leone as Guest appearance in song "Laila
Main Laila"

Soundtrack

The
soundtrack
was released
by Zee Music
Company. [63]
The songs
released on
the original
soundtrack are
listed
below. [64][65]
Track listing
The song
"Laila Main
Laila" from the
1980 film
Qurbani was
written by
Indeevar , and
was originally
composed by
Kalyanji–
Anandji , and it
was sung by
Kanchan, Amit
Kumar ,
Chorus, has
been recreated
for the film Raees by composer Ram Sampath. [66]
Additional lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar. [67]
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
No. Title Lyrics Music Singer(s) Length
1. "Laila
Main
Laila"
Indeevar,
Javed
Akhtar
Kalyanji–
Anandji,
Ram
Sampath
Pavni
Pandey
5:06
2. "Zaalima" Amitabh
Bhattacharya JAM8 [68] Arijit
Singh ,
Harshdeep
Kaur
4:59
3. "Udi Udi
Jaye"
Javed
Akhtar
Ram
Sampath[69]
Sukhwinder
Singh ,
Bhoomi
Trivedi ,
Karsan Das
Sagathia
4:20
4. "Dhingana" Mayur Puri Aheer
(JAM8),
OmGrown [70]
Mika Singh 2:46
5. "Enu
Naam Che
Raees"
Ram
Sampath,
Hiral
Brahmbhatt
Ram
Sampath
Ram
Sampath,
Tarannum
Malik
3:00
6. "Saanson
Ke"
Manoj
Yadav
Aheer (JAM8) KK 4:02
7. "Ghammar
Ghammar"
Traditional Ram
Sampath
Roshan
Rathod
2:39
26:52