The release date of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer Raees is near, and we are waiting eagerly to view its first trailer. But more than Sharukh Khan, we wanted to see the Humsafar actress Mahira Khan shine in the movie, where she is supposed to be playing the love interest of King Khan.
Unfortunately, many of us will be left disappointed, as revealed by Business of Cinema, major changes are being made to the film, and all those changes revolve around Pakistani actors.
Raees, which also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a cop, has reportedly been edited as the makers do not want the film to land into trouble at any cost.
Mumbai Mirror in its report quoted a source as saying:
“Mahira won’t be back in India for any further shoots, nor will the unit be going abroad to film with her.”
Reportedly she had two songs but will now have to be content with just the one that has already been canned. A romantic sequence between SRK and her has also been sacrificed, the source added.
“Mahira is an attractive and popular Pakistani actress and Raees is her big-ticket Bollywood launch. But while she does play Shah Rukh’s love interest, it is not really a romantic film. Her role is like Parveen Babi’s in Yash Chopra’s 1975 crime-drama Deewaar. That one revolved around two warring brothers, Vijay and Ravi, played by Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor. This one revolves around the conflict between Shah Rukh Khan who plays a bootlegger, Raees Alam, and ACP Ghulam Patel enacted by Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) who is on his trail. So, it wasn’t difficult to trim her role which has been done with the intention of not hurting public sentiment,” the source told Mumbai Mirror.
The trailer of Raees releases this December 7 and the film will release worldwide on January 26, 2017.
