Rana (film)
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Early promotional poster of the film
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| Directed by | K. S. Ravikumar |
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| Written by | S. Ramakrishnan |
| Screenplay by | K. S. Ravikumar |
| Story by | Rajinikanth |
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| Music by | A. R. Rahman |
| Cinematography | R. Rathnavelu |
| Edited by | Anthony |
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| Country | India |
| Language | Tamil |
Rana is a shelved historical action film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar starring Rajinikanth, whose story the film would be based upon.Deepika Padukone was signed as the female lead. The film would have been jointly produced by Ocher Picture Productions and Eros International. The film would have featured cinematographer R. Rathnavelu and music would have been composed by A. R. Rahman.
Principal photography, began on 29 April 2011. During the first schedule of filming, Rajinikanth fell ill on sets and was admitted to hospital for over a month, resulting in an indefinite postponement of filming. Further attempts for the film to continue production throughout the year failed.
In April 2014, it was announced that Rana's script would be written, and would be ready in six months, although by August 2015, the film was no longer in development. Following the release of Kochadaiiyaan in 2014, which retained most of the cast and crew members and whose story and script were written based on that of this film, it was intended to be finished and released as its sequel. Despite the positive response and moderate success of that film, it has not continued production.
After the release of Enthiran (2010), Rajinikanth approached K. S. Ravikumar to help complete an animation feature that Soundarya Rajinikanth had begun in 2007. The project, titled Sultan: The Warrior, had run into problems with its production and Rajinikanth hoped that they could salvage the project by adding a historical back plot which would make the film partially animation and partially live action. K. S. Ravikumar then developed a story for fifteen days with his team assistants and after being impressed by the script, Rajinikanth felt that Ravikumar's story should be an entirely separate film. It was also reported that K. S. Ravikumar was signed up as co-director to direct "non-animated" scenes of the film, in which Rajinikanth would pair up with Trisha Krishnan. The reports were later falsified as several websites on 28 January 2011, claimed that Rana was a separate project, jointly produced by Eros International and Soundarya's Ocher Picture Productions.
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