Raja Rani (2013 film)

Raja Rani
Directed by	Atlee
Produced by	AR Murugadoss S. Shanmugam
Written by	Atlee
Starring	Arya Jai Nayantara Nazriya Nazim Sathyaraj
Music by	G. V. Prakash Kumar
Cinematography	George C. Williams
Edited by	Ruben
Production company	A.R Murugadoss Productions The Next Big Film
Distributed by	Fox Star Studios
Release date	27 September 2013 (2013-09-27)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Tamil
Budget	₹15 crore (US$2.2 million)

Raja Rani (English: King Queen) is a 2013 Tamil romantic drama film directed by debutant Atlee, who previously worked with Shankar as an assistant in Enthiran (2010) and Nanban (2012). Produced by AR Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios, the film features Arya, Jai, Nayantara and Nazriya Nazim in the lead roles while Sathyaraj, Santhanam and Sathyan appear in supporting roles. The film released worldwide on 27 September 2013, to generally positive reviews from critics. The Telugu dubbed version is also titled as Raja Rani and was released on March 14, 2014. It was remade in Bengali as Shudhu Tomari Jonyo in 2015, with Dev, Srabanti Chatterjee, Soham Chakraborty and Mimi Chakraborty and in Odia as Tu Je Sei starring Babushan. The film was reported to be loosely based on the 2007 Kannada film Milana, starring Puneeth Rajkumar, Pooja Gandhi and Parvathy.

The movie begins with the marriage of John (Arya) and Regina (Nayantara) at a church. The marriage is an arranged one, to which both have consented reluctantly to make their parents happy. After the marriage they live together as strangers in an apartment, where the neighbors are upset with John who comes home drunk every night, which he does deliberately to annoy Regina. Eventually, Regina applies for a transfer to Australia to stay away from John.