

Raees subsequently kills him in retaliation. This affects most of the dealers except him as he manages to smuggle past Majmudar - leading to hostile relations and a failed assassination attempt by Jairaj. Majmudar is transferred to Fatehpur and starts a major crackdown on alcohol dealers, focusing on Raees. Meanwhile, an honest and powerful police officer, ACP J. He gains immense popularity in his community: he provides them liquor, employs them for receiving orders and delivering them and thus enjoys political support from both the Chief Minister and Pashabhai, the leader of the opposition. As his power and influence grows, he decides to part ways with Jairaj and takes the help of a crime boss, Musabhai to start his own business.

Along with his best friend, Sadiq, he starts working for a local gangster, Jairaj - who likes Raees as he comes up with novel ideas for smuggling. He uses his mother's philosophy: no occupation is low and no religion greater than any occupation as a mechanism of self-deception. Raees, a sharp-minded boy, lives in Fatehpur, Gujarat, a state with alcohol prohibition, and gets involved in illegal liquor trade from a young age. The film begins in the 1960s (evident from a newspaper).

The film received five nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Actor for Khan. The film's soundtrack has also received over 1.5 billion streams on YouTube. Raees was also the most pirated Hindi film of 2017. It received overall positive reviews from the critics, who appreciated performance of Khan and Siddiqui, production design, art direction, and visual effects, and was a success at Box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2017 until it was surpassed by Hindi Medium. The film was released on 25 January 2017 during India's Republic Day weekend. Raees is said to be based on the criminal Abdul Latif's life, however, the filmmakers have denied this. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mahira Khan. Rich) is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rahul Dholakia and produced by Gauri Khan, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under their banners Red Chillies Entertainment and Excel Entertainment.
