Rebel is a 2012 Telugu action-romance film written and directed by Raghava Lawrence. The film stars Prabhas, Tamannaah, Deeksha Seth and Krishnam Raju and was produced by J. Bhaghawan and J. Pulla Rao under the Sri Balaji Cine Media banner. Apart from directing, Raghava Lawrence also handled the choreography, screenplay and music direction for the film. The film was released worldwide on 28 September 2012. The movie has been loosely remade into Bangladeshi Bengali as Hero: The Superstar. It was dubbed into Hindi as The Return of Rebel (2014), in Tamil as Veerabali, and in Malayalam as Rebel. Dubbing artist Chetanya Adib dubbed for Prabhas's voice in the Hindi dubbed version.