Deepika - Vishal Bhardwaj's next not to be titled as Rani

However, recently there were few reports that the film will be titled as Rani. A source had informed a daily, "Deepika has already started the preparation for her role of a Mafia queen and she is quite particular that she gets the tonality and body language as close to the late Sapna Didi who was once a terror for other gangsters. The shoot will begin by early March in Mumbai. After Padmaavat, her fans will love to see her in a whole new avatar of a lady don and hence she is really working meticulously to strike the right chord."

However, director Vishal Bharadwaj DENIED all reports with a post on his Twitter account. "So amusing to find out that everyone except me knows the title of my upcoming film! This is absolutely false news, the movie is not titled 'Rani' and it is not based on Sapna Didi's life."