RANA SHOOTING STARTS...

The Shooting of the Super Star’s film “Rana” begins today (29-4-11) in the AVM Pillaiyar Temple. Rajinikanth is acting in triple roles in this film. Rajinikanth has penned the Story. Dialogues and Direction of “Rana” is done by K.S.Ravikumar.

The Shooting of this film was to start little earlier itself. Rajinikanth was not fully satisfied with the looks and the Photo shoot of Deepika Padukone. So, he wanted to make some changes. As all the changes were over, the Shooting of this film begins from today.

“Rana” Film Pooja was held in the AVM Pillaiyar Temple today morning. After this, the shooting of the Song sequence featuring Rajinikanth and Deepika Padukone was shot today.

VIPs such as Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, K.Balachander, R.M.Veerappan, Soundarya Rajinikanth, R.B.Choudary, Dance Master Sundaram, and many others were present in this occasion. This Commencement of Shooting was held very silently.

The superhit combination of director K S Ravikumar and actor Rajinikanth is back. This time, for a full-fledged action movie in which the Superstar will play not one, but three roles!

K S Ravikumar had earlier given two hits with Rajinikanth in Muthu and Padayappa. With Rana, the two are all set to recreate that magic once again onscreen.

Talking to CT, K S Ravikumar says, "Yes, Rana will be an action entertainer and it will be a period film. Rajinikanth will sport a different look in it."

A source close to the film's unit also says, "If things go according to plan, Rana will start rolling in March. Rajini will play three different roles in it. It will be a trilingual and the film will release in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi by next year."

According to rumours doing the rounds in the industry, Deepika Padukone is to be paired opposite the Superstar in the film. However, there has been no official confirmation as of now.

While AR Rahman will compose the music for Rana, cinematography will be by Rathnavelu. Art and editing will be handled by Rajeevan and Anthony respectively. Apart from co-producing the film,Soundarya Rajinikanth will also handle the special effects in it.

Meanwhile, work is still on for Sultan The Warrior aka Hara, an animation flick that is being made by Soundarya Rajinikanth. Sources say that Rana is likely to release before Hara.