The story of the film is a pure work og ficiton not based on any person living or dead despite the discalimer it is widely that the story of raees is lossely based on the life small time bootlegger turend don from gujarat abdul latifyhe stody of raees alam is based in the 1980s. cast performance raees is srk’s best performance in many many years if not his career best. shah rukh khan, mahira khan, nawazuddin siddiqui .this song laila main laila from the 1980 film qurbani was writeen by indeever and was orinally composed by kalyni -anandji zaalima, udi udi jaye dhingana, enu, saanson kecinematograaphy by k.u.mohanan