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SRK to slum it in ‘Raees’?

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Shah Rukh Khan is currently busy shooting in Bulgaria for ‘Dilwale’ but it has emerged that his forthcoming film ‘Raees’ will see him playing a slum dweller.

In the Rahul Dholakia directorial, Khan will also have an accent associated to his character who resides in an Ahmedabad slum. Dholakia stated, according to Deccan Chronicle, “It started off as a real-life person. But as we re-wrote several drafts of the script, the character became more and more fictional”.

Instead of taking Khan to the actual location of Gujarat, Dholakia is building sets which will resemble the state. He continued, “It�۪s very practical and logical to not take Shah Rukh into the crowds. He is a star with a mammoth following everywhere ��� Gujarat too. To shoot with him on the streets in Ahmedabad is not only impractical, but probably suicidal. I remember when we were shooting with Sanjay Dutt in Kashmir for Lamha. Huge crowds would gather and obstruct the shooting”.

‘Raees’ is produced by Excel Entertainment and will release at Eid 2016.