5 things SRK has never done before!
The trailer of Rahul Dholakia’s Raees promises everything that Shah Rukh Khan’s films never are about. But then, Bajrangi Bhaijaan was everything Salman Khan films are not. But it has worked and how!
The trailer of Rahul Dholakia’s Raees promises everything that Shah Rukh Khan’s films never are about. But then, Bajrangi Bhaijaan was everything Salman Khan films are not. But it has worked and how!
SRK has already wowed the audiences in his Raees avatar. Maybe fans do want to see their fav stars in different roles, and the industry has been underestimating that. Here’s looking at five things that SRK is dong in Raees that he hasn’t done before.
1. The ultimate romantic hero plays a hotheaded don. The film’s catchline is ‘Baniye ki dimaag, miyanbhai ki daring’. Man, this is way out of the league of Raj and Rahul!
2. Raees is culturally defiant, politically provocative and thumbs its nose at all conventional readings of SRK. SRK embraces his anti-hero’s illicit business ideology as though to the liquor-born.
3. SRK’s played a don before. This time, a different kind.In Raees, he plays a bootlegger... in Gujarat. NaMo’s liquor-free state. 4. Throughout the film, SRK ceases to be a superstar. Body language and the rasping rebellious voiceover suggests the menacing presence of a protagonist who breaks rules — political, legal moral and religious — in the belief that ‘Dhande se bada koi dharm nahin, ab yahee mera qalma hai aur yehi mera mazhab’.
5. Raees projects the kind of dark and sinister world which Khan’s urbane genteel characters rarely inhabit. A renewal of his exploration of the dark side of human nature in Darr, Anjaam and Baazigar? SRK is stepping out of his comfort zone. Bootlegging never looked more dangerous. Or intriguing.