Rani (Hindi : रानी) is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian feminine given name(sometimes spelled ranee), which means "duchess", "queen" and "sovereign", the term refers to female form of princely rulers in Southeast Asia which applies equally to the wife of a Raja or Rana.
Rani (Hebrew: רני) is also a nickname of the Israeli masculine name Ran, which used also by female, which means "[He] sings".
Rani (Tamil: ராணி) is a 1952 Tamil-language film directed by L. V. Prasad. The film stars P. Bhanumathi, S. Balachander, Wahab Kashmiri, S. V. Subbaiah, M. K. Mustafa, M. Saroja, G. M. Basheer, M. S. S. Bhagyam, Lakshmiprabha, C. S. D. Singh, M. R. Santhanam, K. S. Angamuthu and "Baby" Sacchu.
The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was played by Kate O'Mara.
The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything (including morality) as secondary to her research; she has been known to enslave entire planets such as Miasimia Goria in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. Her major interest is in tinkering with other species' biochemistry — she was exiled from Gallifrey after some of her lab mice, as a result of an experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the President's pet cat, and according to The Master, "took a chunk out of him too". A past relationship between the Rani and the Doctor is hinted at but was never elaborated upon, although it is established they are the same age.
The Rani was, like the Master, intended as a recurring foe of the Doctor, but only appeared in two serials, The Mark of the Rani (1985) and Time and the Rani (1987), before Doctor Who went off the air in 1989. The Rani also appeared as the principal villain in Dimensions in Time, a 1993 Doctor Who charity special created for Children in Need. She was intended to appear in another serial entitled Yellow Fever and How To Cure It, but the show was put on hiatus and the serial was cancelled.
To crosspieces bound
You have been carving this yoke of stone
In mud we drowned
To reconfirm your throne
Break this yoke of stone
Break this
Break this yoke of stone
Break this yoke
Time to rise again, we've come tonight
To end your reign,
Feel this fist do you know just how it feels,
When we break all your bones inside
And dismantle pride
We've taken your abuse for far too long
Your throat is all bare and our teeth are strong
From tug poles unbound
Our burning rage shall unleash a flood
The king self-crowned
Will taste the wrath of our blood
Break this yoke of stone
Break this
Break this yoke of stone
Break this yoke
Time to rise again, we've come tonight
To end your reign,
Feel this fist do you know just how it feels,
When we break all your bones inside
And dismantle pride
Now...
Tonight you'll see me
Stand by your bedside
A stone held high above your head
Nothing you say or do
Can change our point of view
This reign will end tonight
It's time now to set it right
Spare me your pleas and cries
Look right into my eyes
Tonight we're dinning in this hall