2017 · thriller · action · crime
Raees
Directed by Rahul Dholakia2h 23m2017
Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
Our read: Raees (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded thriller · action · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / action, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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