With watching Raees's trailer, the excitement level to watch the film is increased. The film is directed by National Award winning director Rahul Dholakia who discuss about his film and also stated that our Prime Minister too can enjoy the film.
Rahul speaks about the film, "I don't use the word 'great' to describe my work, so I'll simply say I'm quite happy with the way the film has shaped up. For me the journey has always been more important than the end result and this one which has spanned almost five years for me has been fascinating."
Rahul discussed the source of idea to make 'Raees', "I decided to weave crime, politics and prohibition into an interesting story about a cop and a gangster and called up a reporter friend, Ashish Vashi, asked him if he knew anyone who could help me with the research. He'd written on the subject and was happy to jump on board, along with another journalist, Harit Mehta and a writer friend, Neeraj Shukla, who'd worked with me on a TV show."
On asking the effect of demonetization on film, "It's set in pre-Modi Gujarat which was very different. I'm not making a political statement here. Nor did I want to create any controversies. Raees is an entertaining commercial film which Mr Modi will enjoy as much as the common man."