Raees (2017 movie)

Raees ( 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. It stars Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Mahira Khan.

The film was released on 25 January 2017 during India's Republic Day weekend. It received overall positive reviews from the critics and was a success at box office. It was also the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2017. Raees was also the most popular Hindi film of 2017. The film's soundtrack was also popular with over 1.5 billion streams on YouTube. The film received five nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Actor for Khan.

 Cast 

Shah Rukh Khan as gangster-turned-MLA Raees Alam
Shubham More as young Raees
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Inspector Jaideep Ambalal Majmudar
Mahira Khan as Aasiya Raees Alam, Raees's wife
Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub as Sadiq, Raees's friend and confidante
Shubham Tukaram as young Sadiq
 Sheeba Chaddha as Amina Alam, Raees's mother
 Atul Kulkarni as Jairaj Seth
 Narendra Jha as Musa
 Jaideep Ahlawat as Nawab, Musabhai's assistant
 Uday Tikekar as opposition leader Pasha Bhai
Nalneesh Neel as Lalji
 Pramod Pathak as Chief Minister of Gujarat
 Utkarsh Mazumdar as Dr. Sanjanwala, Eye Specialist
 Kundan Roy as Kalupor
 Ashutosh Jha as Rasul
Bimal Trivedi
 Sunil Upadhyay as Taufiq
 Fareed Arif as Eijaz
 Loveleen Mishra as Ratna madam, School teacher
 Anil Mange as Qasim
 Anurag Arora as Damla
 Sanjay Gurbaxani as Commissioner
 Raj Arjun as Ilyas
 Bhagwan Tiwari as Inspector Devji
 Shahnawaz Pradhan
 Sunny Leone, as Item girl in Laila Main Laila song

References

Category:2010s Indian movies
Category:2017 action movies
Category:Indian action thriller movies
Category:Indian gangster movies