Superstar Rajinikanth’s next movie – RANA (Tamil, Hindi, Telugu) with Deepika Padukone.

Film Title: Rana
Production: Ocher Studios and EROS International Media Ltd.
Direction: K S Ravikumar
Dialogs: S Ramakrishnan
Cast: Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, (Casts are yet to finalize, expecting Vidya Balan to join the team)
Music: A R Rahman
Lyrics: Vairamuthu, Thamarai, Vaali, Na Muthukumar and Madhan Karky
Editing: Antony
Cinematography: Ratnavelu
Art Direction: Rajeevan
Special EFX: Soundarya Rajinikanth and Charles Darby (Eyeqube Studios)
Language: Tamil, simultaneously to be released in Telugu and Hindi as well.
Status: Under pre- production stage, expected to start shooting from 20th April, 2011, and expected to release on Mid 2012.

Rana’s shooting took a flying start on the 29th of April at AVM Studios with a pooja and with K Balachandar directing the first shot. Rana will have music by AR Rahman and the music director will be composing 6 tracks. Ganja Karuppu will take care of the comedy portion and work is going on to finalize two more heroines who will pair up with Rajinikanth.

The shooting of South Indian Super Star Rajinikanth’s next magnum opus ‘Rana’ has been postponed by a week.

Rajinikanth’s collaboration with K S Ravikumar: Blockbusters Muthu and Padayappa. Muthu was dubbed in Japanese ‘Mutu – Oduru Maharaja’ and was a huge grosser and the Rajinikanth became a household name in Japan. Its not easy to forget the special note about the movie ‘Muthu’ mentioned by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Shingh at the National Diet of Japan in Dec 2006 regarding the reach of Rajinikanth among Japanese. Padayappa was one of the highest grosser of all time in down south till Rajinikanth’s own Sivaji released.

Rajinikanth – Main Lead
A R Rahman – Music Composer
K S Ravikumar – Directer
Ratnavelu – Cinematography
Rajeevan – Art Direction
S Ramakrishnan – Dialogs

I am working with Rajini for the first time….

Deepika Padukone who is excited about working with the Superstar for the first time but also the film’s art director Rajeevan. Director KS Ravikumar has roped in popular art director Rajeevan to create the sets for Rana and needless to say Rajeevan is highly excited. The art director said that 90% of Rana will be shot in sets and he cannot wait to create some great ones. He also added that the film will be set in the 17th century and that will give him a lot of scope to show creativity but it also involves exhaustive research.

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