Telugu hero Rana Daggubati, known for his impressive performance as the menacing antagonist Bhallaladeva in the SS Rajamouli directorial Baahubali series, was last seen on screen in a lead role in the Telugu flick Nene Raju Nene Mantri, and had sincethen been busy with his other commitments in Hindi and Telugu.

Now, the actor has finally returned to resume shoot of his much expected multilingual movie Haathi Mere Saathi directed by Prabhu Solomon and costarring Kalki Koechlin, Vishnu Vishal, Pulkit Samrat.Bankrolled by Eros studios, the movie which will begin a crucial schedule today in Kerala, will be released in Tamil as Kaadan.

Rana will be wrapping his part for the movie based on the bonding between a man and an elephant,in back to back schedules, following which he will be moving on to his other projects. Rana will be seen next as Chandrababu Naidu in the NTR biopic, and also has Housefull 4 with Akshay Kumar, Madai Thirandhu, and a Malayalam project in his kitty.