The movie is based on illegal smuggling and selling of liquor in alchohol free state Gujarat. The film starts from Shahrukh working for different smugglers as carrier and finally decides to start his own business. And the story starts of his struggle till becoming a kingmaker in smuggling. In this journey he gets in touch with a mumbai based don musa. The main story starts when Nawaz SP of police is transferred to Raees area and the neck to neck competition is awesome between Nawaz and Srk. Raees takes care of everyone be it police politicuans or his own street people and starts a construction of a hifi society for his people and during this the things gi wrong when he attacks the Leader of opposition in a scuffle created by Nawaz and later the CM also betrays Srk sending him to jail and joins hand with opposition leader for political gains. And things go worst when cm orders to stop the building of raees hifi society. And during this musa also betrays raees making him smuggle rdx in the name of gold which gets use in bomb blasts accross India. Raees kills musa and surrenders and what happens to him please go and watch. Casting and their performances wre awesome mahira was just ok in her role. Srk has done one of his best and Nawaz is asusual best in his serious cum comic role. Music is good and the laila song is shows topper. Cinematography editing and all other technical work is good. Overall a must watch movie for srk and nawaz performance.