Shah Rukh Khan's character in Raees is loosely based on Abdul Latif, alleged gangster who ran illicit liquor business in Gujarat.
In Rahul Dhalokia’s Raees, Shah Rukh Khan plays a character loosely based on Abdul Latif, an alleged gangster who ran the illicit liquor business in Gujarat during the peak of Prohibition in the 1990s. The film is now in legal trouble.
Latif had over 40 murder cases filed against him. However, now, Latif’s son Mustak Ahmed Abdul Latif Shaikh has sent legal notices to nine prominent people involved with the making of the film Raees, including SRK, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, producer Ritesh Sidhwani and director Rahul Dholakia, asking how or why a film on his father’s life is being made.
The legal notice cease-and-desist notice advises the team “from screening, promoting, releasing, publicising, advertising and exploiting the Hindi film titled Raees.” It goes on to say, Mustak’s father was “a famous businessman with deep roots in society.”
In other words, Raees is likely to show him in an unfavourable light and must therefore, explain itself to the son of the man on whose life the film is based. Even the set representing Abdul’s house that was erected in Film City was supposedly a replica of the Shaikhs’ residence.
Earlier trouble for Raees
*A few weeks ago, when Shah Rukh Khan was in Gujarat to film Raees, members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) opposed the film's shoot. Stones were hurled at his car amidst slogans against him. The members even burnt posters of SRK, demanding cancellation of the film's shoot. They were protesting against the actor for his comment on intolerance in India.
*Before that the filming got disrupted because the unit had not taken permission from the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) to shoot in the famous Sarkhej Roza mosque. The scene could be shot only after they followed procedure.
*Shiv Sena called for a ban on Pakistani artistes in Maharashtra. Since Pakistani actress Mahira Khan is making her Bolly debut with the film, the producers were thinking of shooting in Dubai or some other location away from Mumbai. However, a couple of days ago Mahira and SRK did shoot for the film in the city amidst tight security.
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