It has become a ritual for names of all top actresses to do rounds as the heroine of Rajinikanth whenever the Superstar announces a new film. Now that an official announcement is made on ‘Rana’, a fresh guessing game is on.

With Deepika Padukone already in the list, it is now said that Asin has been offered one of the heroine characters as she is in the good books of director K S Ravikumar, thanks to ‘Dasavatharam’ and ‘Varalaru’.

“Moreover, both Deepika and Asin are popular in the north too. As Rajini is a pan-Asin player now, it is felt that both would add value to the multicrore project, which has the Superstar in three roles,” sources say.

After carving a niche for herself in south Indian languages, Asin entered Bollywood with ‘Ghajini’, the Aamir Khan starrer. She is at present acting in a decent number of Hindi films, besides making a re-entry in Tamil with ‘Kavalan’.