SRK’s Raees not based on the life of bootlegger Abdul Lateef?

After a father accused a school teacher of thrashing his child mercilessly while pulling her hair, due to which the child has developed a gaping bald spot, a scene from SRK’s upcoming film, Raees was sent into question too. This opened up a debate about child abuse and how it won’t be tolerated in any form, not even for Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees.

The film includes the scene where a child is physically punished. A source close to the producers said, “There were two options. Either that sequence had to be removed or we had to find a way of justifying its presence. The Censors were sensible enough to see that the sequence of corporal punishment was crucial to the plot, so they found a way out. They asked producer Ritesh Sidhwani to add a disclaimer stating that film and its makers do not support corporal punishment.”

The Censor Board also had an issue with scenes of liquor manufacture and consumption, as SRK plays a bootlegger. The source added on the same, “The film does not in any way endorse its protagonist’s professional allegiance to alcohol.”

Putting an end to all debate discussion and assumption on whether Raees is based on the real-life Gujarati bootlegger-turned-politician Abdul Lateef, the Board has asked for prominent opening-credits disclaimer stating, “This film is a work of fiction. It does not disparage any person dead or alive.”

Now, this is a major sign of maturity from the CBFC!