Raees trailer release: The troubled journey of Shah Rukh Khan's

Raees — a co-production of Shah Rukh's own Red Chillies and Farhan Akhtar-Ritesh Sidhwani's Excel Entertainment — hasn't had a smooth going.

First, its original release date — Eid 2016 — had to be set aside, to avoid a clash with Salman Khan's Sultan.

Even as these issues weighed Raees down, a bigger storm was brewing.

As anti-Pakistan sentiment simmered in India after the Uri attacks in September that left several of our military personnel dead, there were calls to boycott all artistes from across the border. Raees was among the films struck really hard (the other film was Karan Johar's Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, which had a cameo by Fawad Khan) as it marked the Bollywood debut of Pakistani actress Mahira Khan.