Rana (Sanskrit: राणा) is a historical title of Rajput origin, denoting the rank of an absolute Monarch.
Today, it is being used as a hereditary name in South Asia. Rani is the title for the wife of a Rana or a female monarch. Rani also applies to the wife of a Raja. Compound titles include Rana Sahib, Ranaji, Rana Bahadur, and Maharana.
Rana was formerly used as a title of martial sovereignty by Rajput kings in India.
Members of different Rajput clans use Rana as a hereditary title in Pakistan and their majority is Muslim. However Hindu Rajputs with this title also exist in Sindh.Umerkot was a state with a Hindu Rajput ruler using the title Rana in Sindh (presen-day Pakistan). In the 16th century Rana Prasad, the then Rana of Umerkot, gave refuge to Mughal prince Humayun and his wife Hamida Banu Begum, who fled from military defeat at the hands of Sher Shah Suri. Their son Akbar was born in the fort of the Rana of Umerkot.
The Kingdom of Nepal (Nepali: नेपाल अधिराज्य), also known as the Kingdom of Gorkha (Nepali: गोर्खा अधिराज्य), was a kingdom formed in 1768 by the unification of Nepal. Founded by King Prithvi Narayan Shah, a Gorkhali monarch, it existed for 240 years until the abolition of the Nepalese monarchy in 2008. During this period, Nepal was formally under the rule of the Shah dynasty, which exercised varying degrees of power during the kingdom's existence.
Despite a humiliating defeat to China after a failed invasion of Tibet in the 1790s, which led to Nepal becoming a tributary state of the Chinese Empire, Nepal successfully consolidated its territories in the ensuing years. During the early-nineteenth century, however, the expansion of the East India Company's rule in India led to the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816), which resulted in Nepal's defeat. Under the Sugauli Treaty, the kingdom retained its independence, but became a de facto protectorate of Britain in exchange for territorial concessions equating to a third of the territory then under Nepalese rule, sometimes known as "Greater Nepal". Political instability following the war resulted in the ascendancy of the Rana dynasty, which made the office of Prime Ministers of Nepal hereditary in their family for the next century, from 1843 to 1951. Beginning with Jung Bahadur, the first Rana ruler, the Rana dynasty reduced the Shah monarch to a figurehead role. Rana rule was marked by tyranny, debauchery, economic exploitation and religious persecution.
Rana is a delayed 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 as the female lead. The film will be jointly produced by Ocher Picture Productions and Eros International. The film will feature cinematographer R. Rathnavelu and music will be composed by A. R. Rahman.
Despite the occurrence of principal photography, which took place on 29 April 2011, casting includes Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone among others. 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
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.
Actors: Prasad Aripaka (actor), Suresh Babu Galam (actor), Kannababu (actor), Pedapati Venkata Ramana Murthy (actor), Chander Nandi (actor), Pragalath Nishthala (actor), Ramesh (actor), Govind Thadi (actor), Marie-Therese Bjornerud (actress), Janna Epstein (actress), Suhir Ponncchamy (producer), Suhir Ponncchamy (writer), Nanda Nayar (composer), Suhir Ponncchamy (director), Nanda Nayar (editor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Shabnam Abdollahi (actor), Amin Behroozzadeh (actor), Farnaz Jurabchian (producer), Mohammad Reza Jurabchian (producer), Farnaz Jurabchian (writer), Mohammad Reza Jurabchian (writer), Farnaz Jurabchian (director), Mohammad Reza Jurabchian (director), Kambiz Saffari (editor),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Monty Bhojak (actor), Rian Bishop (actor), Bill Elverman (actor), Nadir Hasan (actor), Menamy Mitanes (actor), Matt Thompson (actor), Aki Umemoto (actor), Michael Chase Walker (actor), Jesse Wang (actor), Monty Bhojak (producer), Nadir Hasan (producer), Monty Bhojak (writer), Monty Bhojak (director), Wilton Cruz (editor), Stephanie Anderson (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Samrat Chakrabarti (actor), Soumitra Chatterjee (actor), Koushik Sen (actor), Ananya Chatterjee (actress), Suman Ghosh (writer), Anandi Ghose (costume designer), Suman Ghosh (director), Sujay Dutta Roy (editor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Faruque Azam (actor), Shoikot Chowdhury (actor), Nazmul Hassan (actor), Shah Kibria (actor), Luca (actor), Lucca (actor), Max (actor), Ifty Khan Tipu (actor), Eliane Iten (actress), Annie Salam (actress), Shahriar Rahman (producer), Fathema Ruma (producer), Zahed Sharif (producer), Shahriar Rahman (writer), Fathema Ruma (writer),
Plot: During a trip to the U.S., ambitious Rana becomes inspired by his uncle's success. After a marriage and bitter divorce from the uncle's daughter, Rana becomes out-of-status and disillusioned. Diana, a widowed American citizen, sympathetically grants him a "contract marriage." Now that he is getting his Green Card, should he leave the only woman who loved him for the American Dream?
Genres: Drama,Actors: Danny Denzongpa (actor), Rocky Grover (actor), Akshaye Khanna (actor), Vinod Khanna (actor), Johnny Lever (actor), Amrish Puri (actor), Satish Shah (actor), Shazia Malik (actress), Hema Malini (actress), Anjala Zaveri (actress), Vinod Khanna (producer), Anu Malik (composer), Pankaj Parashar (director), Saroj Khan (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama, Romance,Actors: Gulshan Grover (actor), Raza Murad (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Aditya Pancholi (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Satish Shah (actor), Ektaa Bahl (actress), Suhas Joshi (actress), Ekta Sohini (actress), Sripradha (actress), Anu Malik (composer), Ajit Dewani (director),
Plot: Rajan belongs to a poor family living in Bombay, consisting of his mom, dad, and two sisters, one of which is Sana who is of marriageable age. The family cannot afford the marriage, as Rs.50,000 are needed. Rajan confides about to his friend, Satiya, who takes him to a local gangster, Rana, who immediately hands over the money to him without any conditions. Sana's marriage takes place, and Rajan is indebted to Rana for life. He is asked to join his gang and gets involved in many criminal activities. Once he feels that his action was unnecessary and he refuses to carry out an assault, thus bringing him in the bad books of Rana, who now wants him dead. Rajan goes to Jaleel, Rana's rival, and seeks his protection, and is welcomed with open arms. Thus begins Rajan's new life, he outshines the others in his diligence and loyalty to Jaleel and is soon regarded as his right-hand man. Rajan meets with Jyoti and both fall in love, but Jyoti wants Rajan to give up all criminal activities. Rajan tries to do so, is arrested and held in prison. It is then he realizes that he may face life in prison, changes his mind and returns to Jaleel and crime. Shortly thereafter he starts to feel that things would be better if Jaleel and Rana give up their differences and become allies. Both are reluctant, but he lures them to meet, and they do so. Both protagonists are unwilling to bow down before the other, and pretty soon an argument ensues. Rajan must now decide what's to happen - he has a choice - he can kill either one and earn his loyalty to the other - or he can kill both of them and become the unchallenged leader of both the gangs.
Genres: Crime,Actors: Hemant Birje (actor), Deepak (actor), Sunil Dhawan (actor), Puneet Issar (actor), Trilok Kapoor (actor), Imtiaz Khan (actor), Raj Kishore (actor), Amarnath Mukherjee (actor), Narendra Nath (actor), Rajendra Nath (actor), Kamran Rizvi (actor), Sanjiva (actor), Shamsuddin (actor), Bhushan Tiwari (actor), Rana Jung Bahadur (actor),
Plot: A dying Thakur Surjeet Singh bequeaths the entire estate to his son, Raghuvir, disowning the other, Dhurjan, the family's black sheep, who also indulges in black magic. The latter swears to use magical powers to usurp the estate, and even arranges the abduction of Raghuvir's daughters, Sapna and Aarti. Mangal and his men manage to apprehend Dhurjan, imprison him in a dungeon, and rescue Aarti. However, they are unable to locate Sapna, and Raghuvir gets killed. Before dying, he informs Mangal that Sapna has one of two pieces of a locket around her neck, while the other is on Aarti's, and when joined together will reveal the location of a treasure buried in a dungeon. 20 years later, Aarti and her boyfriend, Vijay, along with several others, will attempt to unearth this treasure - not realizing that they not only face betrayal from one of their own, but will also release and fall prey to an ageless and indestructible entity.
Genres: Action, Drama, Horror,Actors: Bruno Alexander (actor), Paul Callaway (actor), Brad Ellingson (actor), Lorry Getz (actor), Jerry Gregoris (actor), Jim Iaquinta (actor), Richard Lange (actor), Alan Ross (actor), Glenn Scherer (actor), Michael Skewes (actor), Karen McDiarmid (actress), Doreen Moze (actress), Angel Rebane (actress), Julie Wheaton (actress), Jerry Gregoris (producer),
Plot: When Kelly Morgan was 11 years old he had a terrifying encounter with Rana, a strange half man/half frog monster living in a lake. The creature killed his father and many other people before Kelly destroyed it. Now as a young man he returns to search for the monster's hidden treasure, and to see if the legendary creature really was killed.
Keywords: boy, creature-feature, death, frog, frog-monster, gold, good-versus-evil, independent-film, lake, monsterActors: Antonio Badú (actor), Antonio Badú (actor), René Cardona (actor), Alberto Carrière (actor), Manuel Casanueva (actor), Enrique del Castillo (actor), Fernando Fernández (actor), Pascual García Peña (actor), Emilio Garibay (actor), Jaime González Quiñones (actor), Jaime González Quiñones (actor), Jesús Gómez (actor), Chel López (actor), Héctor Mateos (actor), Víctor Alcocer (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Rana - "There's No Place Like Home"
Verse:
I wake up in the morning with a song on my breath
And it's just between us, this melody we've created
I hope you can hear it though you're not here beside me
'Cause you're still in my thoughts
And always in my dreams
I just need a love to call my own
Chorus:
There's no place like home when that's where you are
There's no place like when you're in my heart
I don't know where I'd be without you beside
Whenever you're here
There's no place like home
Verse:
And I'm not gonna lie, this arrangement's confusing
And you're apathy is not the least bit amusing
But when I close my eyes I remember my place
That it ain't up to me to decide when you will sleep in this bed we made
Chorus:
There's no place like home when that's where you are
There's no place like when you're in my heart
I don't know where I'd be without you beside
Whenever you're here
There's no place like home
Bridge:
That's when I know there's a place
I go to shine
That's mine
Chorus:
There's no place like home when that's where you are
There's no place like when you're in my heart
I don't know where I'd be without you beside
Whenever you're here
Rana (Sanskrit: राणा) is a historical title of Rajput origin, denoting the rank of an absolute Monarch.
Today, it is being used as a hereditary name in South Asia. Rani is the title for the wife of a Rana or a female monarch. Rani also applies to the wife of a Raja. Compound titles include Rana Sahib, Ranaji, Rana Bahadur, and Maharana.
Rana was formerly used as a title of martial sovereignty by Rajput kings in India.
Members of different Rajput clans use Rana as a hereditary title in Pakistan and their majority is Muslim. However Hindu Rajputs with this title also exist in Sindh.Umerkot was a state with a Hindu Rajput ruler using the title Rana in Sindh (presen-day Pakistan). In the 16th century Rana Prasad, the then Rana of Umerkot, gave refuge to Mughal prince Humayun and his wife Hamida Banu Begum, who fled from military defeat at the hands of Sher Shah Suri. Their son Akbar was born in the fort of the Rana of Umerkot.
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