On April 20, Rajinikanth along with Team ‘Raana’ will perform a puja for the Ganesh statue in AVM Studios. The place is considered to be lucky for the superstar.

Following this, Superstar along with his lead-lady of the movie, Deepika Padukone will leave abroad for the shooting of a duet song, with which, the shooting of this much-awaited movie will be kick-started! Early this year, it was reported that Deepika was in a dilemma to sign the movie due to an issue with dates; however, the actress has chosen this big-flick to make her grand entry into Kollywood. Sources say that the actress expressed a great deal of enthusiasm about the project and claimed that her long-term dream of acting with the Superstar has finally coming true…

The music will be scored by AR Rahman and Ratnavelu will handle the cinematography. The film will be produced by Eros International and Ocher Studios, the latter is owned by Soundarya Rajnikanth.

The movie will be directed by KS Ravikumar, who had previously delivered two super hits with the superstar, ‘Muthu’ and ‘Padayappa’. ‘Raana’ will be a period film, and will have Rajinikanth sporting a whole new look! Rajinikanth will play a triple role and the movie will be a tri-lingual, in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The movie is scheduled for release on early 2012. Now we all know what to look forward to in 2012, don’t we?