Rajnikanths "Rana" Started shooting - Talaivar Fells ill - Recovered

Super star Rajinikanth's next magnum opus Rana started its shooting today in Chennai,Rajini will be seen in a triple role.The Bollywood Superstar and close friends of Rajni Amitabh Bachchan will do a special role in the second half of this movie. Soundarya Rajinikanth daughter of "Talaivar" along with Eros International are the producers of this movie.KS Ravi Kumar is directing this prestigious film. The budget estimate of this film is around Rs. 100 crores, almost equivalent to Rajnis previous film 'Robot'
Deepika Padukone is acting as a female lead in the movie and a role for which Rekha has been considered is been replaced by Tabu now.It is said Reakha had issues regarding her salary
Sonu Sood and Ileana D'Cruz are among the other prominent members of the cast.
Star Cast of the Movie Rana
The shooting started with a pooja by Rajinikanth along with the cast and crew.Rana will  be released in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu simultaneously .same as Rajinikanth's last film  Robot which was a box office super duper hit.
Director Ravikumar said, "Rana has a strong story, a very interesting ensemble cast coupled with super star Rajnikanth in a triple role and promises to have some stunning visual effects that will surely take Indian cinema to the next level.
The music for the film is being scored by Academy award winner A R Rahman, director of photography is Ratnavelu and editing would be done by Antony, they previously worked with Rajni in 'Enthiran' also.
Rajnikanth's Rana -Tamil Poster
The technical director is Soundarya Rajnikanth, of Ocher Visual effects UK, a subsidiary of Ocher Studios Pvt Limited, and Charles Darby of Eyeqube Studios, renowned visual effects luminary and an Emmy award winner, is the creative and special effects director on the film.
The film is scheduled for release in 2012.

Though The first day of shoot  turned out to be a failed day, as the superstar fell ill and was admitted to Isabella hospital in Mylapore, Chennai.
No sooner the news of Rajinikath’s ill health was out his fans gathared out side the hospital and were waiting  to know updates of the superstar’s health and finally ,Rajinikanth’s son-in-law Dhanush shared the good news to all ,that the actor is perfectly OK now.Nothing to worry at all it was just dehydration .Earlier his fans reached out to temple to offer prayers for the recovery of the superstar.


Lets hope 'Talaivar' Rajni's film will be as big hit as Robot
Good luck to all the cast and crew of "Rana".