The superstar, who will don the role of a bootlegger in Raees, will be
in the walled city for over a week next year along with Farhan Akhtar,
who plays a cop
After Big B, it is now Shah Rukh Khan's turn to visit Amdavadi pols.
King Khan will star in national award-winning director Rahul Dholakia's
next Bollywood venture Raees, that deals with the liquor business in
Ahmedabad despite the prohibition rule.
The action-packed movie is set
primarily in Ahmedabad and South Gujarat with SRK playing a bootlegger
and Farhan Akhtar, a cop. It is scheduled to go on floors by mid-2014,
said Dholakia who is scouting for the right locales in the city. "I have
planned a majority of the scenes in Manek Chowk, a few pols in and
around Bhadra fort.
The walled city looks stunningly superb on camera.
Some parts of the movie will be shot in areas near south Gujarat. The
shoot will be wrapped up within a month and the team will be in
Ahmedabad next June for over a week.
I have been visiting Ahmedabad
often for the past few years, first for story writing and now for
choosing the right spots for the shoot," said Dholakia. "The story has
been written by journalists Harit Mehta and Ashish Vashi after a
detailed research on the issue for over a decade," added Dholakia.
Dholakia, Mehta and Vashi gave about two-and-a-half years to script this
film. "We scripted this film over weekend drives. The productivity
peaked when we discussed the story and its dialogue while on long drive.
We have visited south Gujarat, villages on the border of Gujarat and
Mount Abu, Rajasthan."
"The story of Raees was born out of several such
long drives that three of us took together within span of over a
two-and-a-half years," said Dholakia.
And what makes Dholakia think that
prohibition, and its politics and economics - an element which is
peculiarly linked with Gujarat alone - will interest others? "It has
interested top brass of Bollywood including Shah Rukh, Farhan Akhtar and
the best team of technicians. It is a query that is on top of the mind
of each visitor planning to visit the state. The strength of the film is
its story. It is perhaps the first movie focussing a Gujarati family,
is shot in Ahmedabad and written by three Amdavadi writers on a local
issue," he said.
According to sources, Shah Rukh Khan may clash with
Salman Khan in the year 2015. Shah Rukh's Raees and Salman's yet
untitled Being Human production directed by Kabir Khan are expected to
release on Eid 2015.
Edited by qazplm - 10 years ago