Rana, Rajinikanth’s next magnum opus goes on floor today in Chennai The shoot commences with a puja by Super Star Rajinikanth along with the cast and crew in Chennai to mark the auspicious occasion.

The shoot of Rana has to start a week days back but due to the erection of sets the shoot got delayed. As known to us Rana will be a live action magnum opus in which Rajini will be seen playing triple role while Deepika Padukone, Ileana D’Cruz, Tabu will star opposite him. Sonu Sood plays the role of a baddie and Rajini himself has selected Sonu Sood for this role.

Director Mr. K.S Ravikumar said,”Rana has a gripping story line and the entire cats and crew for Rana were perfect for the script. The film is going have stunning visuals which will surely take Indian cinema to the global standards”.

Soundarya Rajinikanth, of Ocher Visual effects UK, is working as a technical director for Rana while Charles Darby of Eyeqube Studios, well-known visual effects personality and an Emmy award winner, is the creative and special effects director on the film. Ratnavelu and Anthony are heading the departments of cinematography and Editing.

Eros International, India’s largest integrated film studio and NextGen Films are jointly producing the film through Rana Production Ltd., UK.

Rana is scheduled to release in FY 2012.

Just when news about Endhiran is subsiding, brand Rajini is making news again: Not for his next (animated) movie Hara but for his next project with director KS Ravikumar. The news is official now that Rajini and KS Ravikumar have agreed to work on a project together which has been titled “Rana”. The USP of the movie is that Rajinikanth will be acting in three roles in the movie. The last time we saw Rajinikanth in three roles was in Moondru Mugam.

Rana will be co-produced by Eros International and Ocher studios. The multi-lingual, which will be released in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi, will have music by AR Rahman who also scored music for Rajinikanht’s last movie Endhiran. Editing will be done by Anthony and Ratnavelu, of Endhiran fame, will be the cinematographer. Art direction will be taken care by Rajeevan while The technical & special effects director will be Soundarya Rajnikanth and Charles Darby of Eyeqube Studios. The shooting is expected to commence in March this year and the film is expected to be released in 2012.

Madhuri Dixit rejects to star opposite Rajinikanth

When all heroines who matter in the country today are waiting for a call to feature as Rajinikanth’s pair in ‘Rana’, the Bollywood yester year heartthrob Madhuri Dixit has reportedly refused the offer to star as one of the Rajini’s pair in the upcoming film.

Rajinikanth plays three characters belonging to three different generations in the film. Current national sensation Deepika Padukone has already been signed to play the romantic pair to the youngest Rajini in the film.

But to play Jodi to one of the older characters Madhuri Dixit was approached and buzz is that the lady declined the offer on personal grounds. Apparently Madhuri turned down the request saying that she misses her children too much and wanted to fly back to the United States at the earliest.

Madhuri Dixit had paired with the super star before in a 1987 Bollywood film called ‘Uttar Dakshin’. For the other Rajini, the names of Trisha Krishnan and Anushka are being considered according to grapevine.

Dum Maaro Dum 2011 movie trailer
Abhishek Bachchan in Dum Maaro Dum, Bipasha Basu in Dum Maaro Dum, Prateik Babbar in Dum Maaro Dum, Aditya Pancholi in Dum Maaro Dum, Harry Key in Dum Maaro Dum, Rana Daggubati in Dum Maaro Dum

Dum Maro Dum is a, 2011 Hindi film planned for release on 22nd of April. Dum Maaro Dum is directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rana Daggubati and Bipasha Basu. Movie features Deepika Padukone in an item song touted to much hotter than Katrina’s Sheela Khi Jawani.

The movie title is one of the bollywood’s super duper hit movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna’s “Dum Maro Dum” (song) composed by R. D. Burman and sung by Asha Bhosle, and this movie was release during 1971.

Deepika Padukone will sizzle the screen for Dum Maro Dum remix song. She recently shot for a remix of the title track that has her flaunting a tattoo of a cobra on her torso. The song has racy lyrics and is touted to be one of the biggest attractions of the film. Reveals a source, “The song is explosive and bold, with really unimaginable lyrics.

The theme of the track has several references to sex and drugs. Initially, Deepika was hesitant given the nature of the lyrics and the inherent innuendo. But after some convincing and seeing the creative visuals for the song she decided to make sure it looked super hot.
Part of the preparation included getting a tattoo with the words ‘Dum Maro Dum’ and the image of a King Cobra.”