Shah Rukh Khan to play slum dweller in Raees

Shah Rukh Khan will be seen playing a man from the slums in his upcoming film Raees directed by Rahul Dholakia. The film deals with the issue of prohibition in Gujarat. The director had re-worked on Shah Rukh's look and accent in the film. SRK will be speaking in a peculiar accent to suit the role of a man from an Ahmedabad slum.

Rahul Dholakia has already laid out sprawling sets to resemble locales of Ahemadabad. About SRK’s character, Dholakia said, “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.”

Mahira Khan plays the leading lady. Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays a pivotal role of a cop. The first schedule of the film has been wrapped. The next schedule of the film will begin in August. SRK is currently in Bulgaria shooting for Rohit Shetty’s “Dilwale”