Rani Chandra

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Rani Chandra was a teenage girl who lived on Bannerman Road. She assisted Sarah Jane Smith and her friends in combating alien menaces and protecting the Earth from natural threats originating from space.

Biography

Meeting Sarah Jane Smith

Rani and her parents, Haresh and Gita Chandra, moved from Danemouth into 36 Bannerman Road in Ealing, London, the house formerly occupied by Alan and Maria Jackson. Rani quickly became mixed up in alien adventures after meeting Sarah Jane. Rani was stalked by the evil entity that manifested itself as Odd Bob the clown. She and the others collectively managed to stop the entity from rising to full power. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)

Although Sarah Jane was initially hesitant, Rani quickly ingratiated herself and became a vital member of Sarah Jane's group, along the way learning about many of Sarah Jane's adventures and even becoming familiar with the Doctor and the TARDIS. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)

After this Rani helped Sarah Jane stop the Ancient Lights take over the world through Martin Trueman. She was temporarily taken over by the lights due to her star sign. (SJA: Secrets of the Stars)

Adventures with Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde

Weeks after this incident Rani picked up an alien pendant from a boy in school. She realised that the pendant allowed the user to control others. Scared by its power, Rani left it in Sarah Jane's attic while Sarah Jane was away for the weekend. However when Paul Langer found it, she and Luke, unable to contact Sarah Jane, had to contact Maria Jackson and her father for assistance in order to stop him from being taken over by the Berserker pendant's alien power. (SJA: Mark of the Berserker)

Rani in 1951 with Sarah Jane and Luke. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)

In later weeks, Sarah Jane was trapped in the past in the village where her parents had died. The Trickster was at work. Clyde and Rani found the puzzle-box given to Sarah Jane and it protected them from the changes that the Trickter's interference caused to modern Earth. They used this as an advantage to eventually stop him and free his Graske slave Krislok. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)

Rani bumps into Clyde in her first day at Park Vale. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)

In Autumn 2009 Rani's mother was kidnapped by Bane fugitive Mrs Wormwood. She and Sarah Jane rescued the two of them from an attack from the enemy Bane agents. Rani and Sarah Jane then accompanied the Brigadier to the Black Archive to find the Tunguska Scroll which would lead them to the mind of the evil entity that the Bane were looking for, Horath. However, Mrs Wormwood double crossed them and teamed up with rogue Sontaran Commander Kaagh to take over the universe, with Luke in tow. Rani confronted Wormwood and Kaagh at the entrance to Horath's domain. Sarah Jane rescued Luke and Kaagh threw Mrs Wormwood and himself into the alternate reality just before it sealed itself forever. (SJA: Enemy of the Bane)

Later in the year Rani and the gang also had to deal with a minor Slitheen incursion, when a lone member of the Slitheen family, disguised as galactic ambassador Ranius, attempted to steal K-9. However, they managed to send him back to where he came from. (SJA: From Raxacoricofallapatorius With Love)

In later 2009 she helped Captain Tybo catch Androvax, a Veil who was the Judoon's most wanted criminal. At the same time her parents had gone to a Genetic Systems lab in order to expand her mother's business. They were searched by Judoon and survived. They later told Rani about the experience but she pretended to not believe them. (SJA: Prisoner of the Judoon)

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Rani and Eve. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

After this she received an email from her old friend Samuel Lloyd. He tricked her into going back to her old home town and investigating a Fun Fair park, where she found an alien called Eve. Eve was a time sensitive alien, and the last of her kind. Using her abilities, she showed Rani her future. The vision showed showed her as an old lonely woman living in 13 Bannerman in the year 2059. After it was revealed Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde had followed Rani, she took Eve out of the ride she hid in, but Eve only wanted to play and forced Rani and four homeless people to have fun. With Eve's power growing out of control, Sarah Jane learned that doing this would kill Eve, so she and Clyde got Eve to her mother ship where Rani was freed from Eve's power. Thankful and granting wishes by manipulating timelines, the mothership recalled a wish that Rani had made earlier, that Sarah Jane, Luke, and Clyde would just leave her alone, taking them out of existence from that point onward. This lead to the vision of the future Rani had seen earlier. In 2059, when telling her story to a young boy, it was revealed he is the son of Eve and Sam Lloyd. He restored Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde to the timeline and the future was changed again. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Rani with Clyde and the Doctor. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

Rani, Luke and Clyde found out that Sarah Jane was dating a man named Peter Dalton, who Sarah Jane met in a shoe shop. Mr Smith and K-9 revealed that the trio secretly put a tracking device on Sarah Jane's car. A few days later, Rani and Clyde broke into Peter's house, suspecting that he wasn't quite Human. They found out that he did not live there. They told Sarah Jane this, but Sarah Jane told them that he had a flat in London nearer his firm. When Sarah Jane announced she was to be married, Rani was asked to be the bridesmaid for Sarah Jane, despite previously spying on Sarah Jane, along with Luke and Clyde. The Doctor appeared at the wedding, and demanded that the wedding was to be stopped. Rani was teleported along with Clyde, Luke and the Doctor to nowhere in a time trap. Thanks to the TARDIS' power and Clyde manipulating it, as well as Peter withdrawing the Trickster's agreement, they were able to escape and the Trickster exploded into nothing. Rani was allowed to look inside the TARDIS when the Doctor visited Bannerman Road. (SJA: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)

Rani, Luke and Clyde in the International Gallery. (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge)

Rani then helped to defeat Erasmus Darkening (SJA: The Eternity Trap), the Mona Lisa. (SJA: Mona Lisa's Revenge), the Slitheen and Blathereen (SJA: The Gift).

Luke's departure

Rani became trapped in a nightmare by the Nightmare Man, but helped to defeat him along with Luke and Clyde. She later said her goodbyes to Luke as he parted for Oxford University, one year earlier than expected. (SJA: The Nightmare Man)

After Luke

Shortly after Luke left, Sarah Jane, Clyde and Rani once again met Androvax. With help from Mister Dread, they saved his species and saved the world from complete hyperdimensional cataclysm. During the adventure, she told her mother about the Bannerman Road gang's battles against aliens but Gita's mind was subsequently wiped by Dread. (SJA: The Vault of Secrets)

She attended the Doctor's funeral at UNIT Base 5. There she helped prevent the Shansheeth from stealing the Doctor's TARDIS. (SJA: Death of the Doctor)

Rani and Clyde were the only two people left on Earth after a pair of robots came searching for their king's heir, Gavin. Rani helped convince him that he was needed on another planet and he agreed. He left with the robots who then returned all the humans. (SJA: The Empty Planet)

Future

In 2059 Rani had a happy life with her large family. She lived in 13 Bannerman Road. She was a journalist and frequently kept in touch with Clyde, Maria and Luke. She had at least one son, Shuresh, and three grandchildren, two grandsons and one granddaughter. She kept a picture of Sarah Jane Smith, Clyde, Luke, K9 and herself from 50 years prior. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

Personality

Rani wanted to be a journalist when she grew up, this tendency to explore resulted in her stumbling upon Sarah Jane's life. (SJA: The Day of the Clown) She admired Luke for his cleverness and Clyde for his aversion to authority. (SJA: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)

Alternate realities

Ship destroys Sarah Jane, Luke and Clyde due to Rani wishing they'd leave her alone. By 2059, Rani was a mad old woman who lived in 13 Bannerman Road. Adam Lloyd visited her and, being one of Eve's species, altered her timeline so that Ship never got rid of her friends. (SJA: The Mad Woman in the Attic)

In "Donna's World" she would have never met Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde and Maria who would have died in the Judoon incident at Royal Hope. (DW: Turn Left)

Key Life Events

Behind the scenes

  • The character's name is similar to that of 1980s Doctor Who villain the Rani, though the producers have stated that there is no connection between the characters. "Rani" is an Indian word for queen, hence the villain's usage of it as a title. Given Rani's ethnicity, the name makes sense in her case as well.
  • In The Mark of the Berserker, a sticker from the cartoon Animainiacs is visible on her fridge.
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