Hindi Raees (2017)

Raees is a 2017 Indian Hindi action crime movie directed by Rahul Dholakia and produced by Gauri Khan, Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under their banners Red Chillies Entertainment and Excel Entertainment. It features Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mahira Khan in lead roles. Raees was said to be based on criminal Abdul Latif’s life. However, the filmmakers denied this. The music of Raees was released by Zee Music Company. The song “Laila Main Laila” from the 1980 film Qurbani was written by Indeevar and was originally composed by Kalyanji–Anandji, and it was sung by Kanchan, Amit Kumar, Chorus, has been recreated for the film by composer Ram Sampath. Additional lyrics are written by Javed Akhtar. The movie was released on 25 January 2017.