Rana is an upcoming historical action film co-written and directed by K. S. Ravikumar starring Rajinikanth, whose story the film will be based upon.Deepika Padukone has been signed on as the female lead. The film will be jointly produced by Ocher Picture Productions and Eros International. The film will feature cinematography by R. Rathnavelu and music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film is expected to be made simultaneously in Hindi and Telugu, all three of which are slated for release in 2012.

Despite the occurrence of principal photography, which took place on 29 April 2011, casting is still incomplete. 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. Following the announcement of Kochadaiyaan in November 2011, another Rajinikanth-starrer to be directed by Soundarya Rajinikanth and written by Ravikumar, Rana was shelved until the completion of the former.

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Masood Rana (Urdu: مسعود رانا) (June 9, 1938 - October 4, 1995) was a Pakistani playback singer. He began his singing career in 1962 with the film Inqalab and became one of the top male singers in both Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades. He sang in the highest number of films and was a busy film singer until his death in 1995.

Masood Rana was born in Mir Pur Khas, Sindh to a Rajput landowner family which had migrated from the East Punjab's city Jalandhar. He started his singing career on Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad in 1955 and established a singer group in Karachi in the early 60's with two other famous names in showbiz - Nadeem Baig and Akhlaq Ahmed.

Masood Rana got his first breakthrough when the renowned actor Saqi introduced him to producer and director Iqbal Shehzad and musician Deebo. His first film song was in the film Inqalab and the song was Mashriq ki tareek faza mein nya svera phoota hay composed by music director N. K. Rahoor but he got fame from his second film Banjaran in 1962. He was proudly introduced as "Pakistani Rafi"^{[citation needed]} and always lived up to his reputation. He was a specialist in singing difficult songs in very high pitch and was the first choice for title and theme songs.

Moammar Rana (Shahmukhi: معمر رانا) is Pakistani actor. He is known for his various Lollywood movie credits, and has also worked on the small screen in Pakistani soap operas such as Dil, Diya, Dehleez and Ishq Ibadat.

Moammar Rana was born in Lahore on 26 February, 1974. His mother Rehana is a homemaker and his father Shafqat Rana is a former test cricketer. He has two older brothers, Naveed Rana and Aamir Rana.

Moammar Rana married Mehnaz Pervaiz on October 25th, 1998 after dating her for a little over a year. Mehnaz who was born on 28 November 1970, graduated from Islamabad College for Girls F 6/2 in 1994. Moammar met Mehnaz while filming Deewane Tere Pyar Ke.

Moammar has 2 daughters: Rea (born on 30 June 1999) and Raneya (born on 15 January 2006).

He starred in film called Kudiyon Ko Dale Dana as a second lead actor. He got his first break in Deewane Tere Pyar Ke which was a huge hit in Pakistan. After that he starred in many successful films like Channa Sachi Muchi, Fire, Jhoomar, Koi Tujh Sa Kahan alongside Veena Malik.