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Synopsis: The film is set in the early 80's and 90's in Gujarat. The fictitious story of a man who builds an empire in the state of Gujarat, the only state that still follows prohibition. It's a story about his rise and his relationships, which help him become the single most powerful man in the state.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rahul Dholakia
Production: Red Chillies Entertainments
  1 win & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
143 min
$3,262,954
1,378 Views


Distribute the meals

in police vans.

Raees sends food for all of you.

Raees! God bless you!

The children have been starving.

Easy.

Why don't you answer the calls?

Creditors are calling up.

The construction

guys and the grocers.

Why aren't the bottles

delivered yet?

Can't help it. No

orders due to curfew.

Don't mind this. But you must either

stop the construction work for some time

- or the free meals.

- No way

- I can't do that.

- Sign here.

Stop free meals to the hindu colony.

It'll ease the burden.

Hey!

Did you ever consider religion

while doing business?

None should starve to death.

Neither hindu nor Muslim.

They are our people.

Neither the free meals will stop

nor the construction of our world

I'll organise the money.

Stop the meals, my foot!

Mr cm, I agree you have

the riots under control.

You must control raees now.

His our world is becoming

everyone's world.

It will be no one's!

Those who are buying raees'

dream will soon grab his throat

I'll make a pauper out

of that king in a trice!

I'm putting that site

in the green zone.

How much money do we have?

About 200,000.

That's all?

Have you swallowed the rest?

What are you saying, raees?

Don't interfere!

I'm talking business here.

He should have the accounts.

Tell me.

- What?

- Give me the accounts.

You want accounts?

Accounts of what? The money

spent on the elections?

Or, the money spent on acres

of land for our world?

Since the last three weeks, we've been

distributing free meals to four colonies.

It doesn't come for free!

I swallowed it? He's

asking me the accounts!

Don't you yell at me!

Are you doing me a favour

by giving me the details?

I've been noticing. You get

worked up over every little thing.

What is wrong with you?

He isn't annoyed over the

money but over the cm.

The cm put our land

in the green zone.

So what?

The deeds are in our names, right?

He changed the law.

No construction can be done there.

Only farming.

What happens to our world?

People's houses, money...?

The money's gone!

Everything has

fallen apart, aasiya.

How can it fall apart

just like that?

There must be a way.

Think. Talk to the cm.

He might understand...

Cut the crap!

No need to use your brains.

I don't need anyone's advice!

Go on, get back to work.

Go!

What good is yelling? Will

it get our money back?

Or, will it help

build the colony?

To heck with the colony!

Hey! Raees!

- Stop it, raees!

- Shut her up!

Move, sadiq.

Raees.

Tell everyone the truth.

Or, assure them that

everything will be fine.

It will be.

For god's sake...

For god's sake, leave me alone!

That's it!

Aasiya.

At the crossroads

of life and death,

I find myself today!

O destiny, I thought

you were a friend.

And I walked on,

in your footsteps,

latching on to you,

holding you dear!

Yet, you compelled me

to do things I'd never

have done otherwise!

We could never understand

each other

I'm tired, aasiya!

Salaam, raees bhai.

Waleikom salaam.

Bhai,

four-eyes is here.

He's up to his neck in debt.

I know.

Nawab, what about

our doha delivery?

The cops are very active, bhai.

Haji, ejaz, hari bhai,

everyone has refused.

Let raees in.

- Send him in.

- Go on.

- Salaam aleikom, bhai.

- Tell me.

Can I help you?

I need a small loan, bhai.

In fact, you need a huge amount.

Trust me, bhai

I'll repay it, with

double the interest.

I can't give you a loan.

But I can put you

on to something...

What about the doha assignment?

Bhai, it's final.

Ejaz is delivering it.

Stop him.

The boys are already en route...

Don't worry, I'll handle him.

Put raees on it.

Bhai, listen to me...

Let raees do the job.

Gold is arriving from doha,

to be delivered in Mumbai

I'll do it.

The riots are over but the

curfew is still forced.

- How can we deliver it?

- Sadiq,

if we can avoid curfew and reach

Mumbai, so can the gold. We can do it.

Think over it. If

you can do it, fine.

Ejaz is on it anyway.

No, we'll do it.

- Sure?

- Sure.

Give him the money.

Thank you, bhai.

Sir!

What's this?

I hope it's not drugs.

- No.

- Nope.

It's only the packaging.

You have all the gold there.

- Is the gold there?

- Yes.

Let it pass then.

Bhairu!

Inform raees that his truck has left.

Okay, sir.

Will it be tea or booze?

Booze... in a teacup!

No one's losing his money

on our world, sadiq.

We'll repay everyone.

God willing!

Today, in a series of

explosions, five blasts

rocked three metropolitan

cities of north India.

People were hauling the injured to

the hospital in cars and scooters.

That's when we realised the

intensity of the blasts.

We can identify the body

only if it is intact,

not if it is blown to pieces.

A wave of fright and anger

has swept the entire country.

No organisation has taken

responsibility for the blasts yet.

The explosions are

linked to gujarat.

The explosive used was smuggled

in through the waters of gujarat

I have no idea, sir.

I'm just a driver!

All I do is deliver the goods.

Where did you pick

up the stuff from?

From porbandar, sir.

I know nothing, sir!

Whose stuff was it?

Damla Seth and nawab

smuggled it in.

On whose orders?

Raees'

hello?

It's a terrible messup, raees.

The packaging materials with

musa's gold weren't plastic.

They were rdx bombs, darn it!

Bombs?

How can they be bombs?

If they were bombs, couldn't

the officer detect them?

Rdx is a new type of bomb.

They were used for

these explosions.

The swine musa betrayed us!

Raees, this time the cops won't

arrest us, they will shoot us down!

Get out of there. See

you when I see you.

Good god!

God!

I had no idea what I was doing!

Raees.

Raees.

In trying to save my people,

I've burned down the

entire city, aasiya!

Good god!

I've burned down the city!

Run! Run!

There are no eyewitnesses to

place raees on the port, sir.

Damla shot himself, while

nawab is absconding.

We can never prove it in court.

Let the court do its job, majmudar.

You go and arrest him.

He's a master at destroying evidence.

Last time he was jailed,

he came out a politician. God

knows what he'll try this time.

Even I want raees, sir.

To maintain peace, war

is a must this time, sir.

I can't give what you

seek in writing, majmudar.

Let's go.

Who wants it in writing anyway?

The cops will be here any moment.

Run, raees!

I won't run

I'm not a coward, sadiq!

I'm not!

You are innocent. And to

prove that, you should live.

If you don't escape,

they will...

Kill you!

Sadiq is right.

- Get out of here, please!

- No!

If I escape, the cops will

make life miserable for you.

Reason with her, sadiq.

Take faizan and aasiya

to sanjanwala's.

Now. Right now!

You know that it's the

only safest place for them.

- And you?

- You know that, sadiq

I'm not going anywhere without you.

Don't argue with me!

Period!

Aasiya, trust me

I'll fix everything.

But right now, this is

the right thing to do.

But...

I won't run.

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Rahul Dholakia

Rahul Dholakia (Gujarati: રાહુલ ધોળકિયા) is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award-winning film, Parzania (Heaven & Hell On Earth) (2005), prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers. more…

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