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Ouch! Pakistani beauty, Mahira Khan, who was to make her big Bollywood debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Raees might now only be visible in a few scenes. Looks like Fawad Khan’s fate in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has been passed on to Mahira in Raees! A leading tabloid has reported that Miss Khan’s role in the film has been truncated. It is believed that certain scenes of the actress were left to be shot but since she won’t be coming back to India (for obvious political reasons), the entire song has been chopped. Starting from her introduction scene to a romantic sequence she shares with SRK in the film, have all been sacrificed as she won’t be flying down, neither will the crew fly out for her.

“Mahira is an attractive and popu lar Pakistani actress and Raees is her big-ticket Bollywood launch. But while she does play Shah Rukh’s love interest, it is not really a romantic film. Her role is like Parveen Babi’s in Yash Chopra’s 1975 crime-drama Deewaar. That one revolved around two warring brothers, Vijay and Ravi, played by Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor. This one revolves around the conflict between Shah Rukh Khan who plays a bootlegger, Raees Alam, and ACP Ghulam Patel enacted by Nawaz (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) who is on his trail. So, it wasn’t difficult to trim her role which has been done with the intention of not hurting public sentiment,“ stated a source from the unit. (ALSO READ: Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil and Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees clash is still on)

This sure is sad for the actress, who didn’t even get a chance to show her talent in Bollywood yet. On the day of Madhur Bhandarkar’s birthday, Shah Rukh had shot his introduction scenes in Madh Island. The scenes shall be wrapped within two or three days max. However, there won’t be any introduction scenes for Mahira, neither would there be the decided romantic track with Shah Rukh. The last time Khan came to India to shoot for Raees was when we spotted her in Bhuj, Gujarat, as she drove off in a jeep with Khan saab. Having chopped quite a lot of scenes of Mahira from Raees to avoid the politicos’ attack on the film, would the perils for the Rahul Dholakia film reduce?

After all, it is still clashing with Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil. What are your thoughts? Do you think it’s unfair to have chopped her scenes from the film? Tell us in the comments section below. Stay tuned to this space for more updates on Raees right here!