Originally posted by: Maroonporsche
Ill say I don't think Farhan/Ritesh would pick a release date of a movie without telling SRK.
They did...more precisely, Ritesh did. Of course, different dates had been discussed but SRK had been hesitant about this one. But after all he couldn't go against it anymore...it would have given even more bad publicity for Raees (additional to the Pakistani leading actress and the freshly promoted goverment's policy.
It hadn't already been a good climate between Excel and RCE before because of what I already wrote. In addition, SRK had himself badly injured on the sets and then there were troubles with the announced Eid release (YRF sent a note to SRK, that Sultan would also release on Eid as it was the regular Salman release date). The media involvement wasn't a great help either...it had been a mess...
For Raees, Eid would have been a perfect date and it had been announced as date earlier than Sultan but for SRK, there was no question to shift knowing very well what kind of demeaning (social)media storm it would generate.
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