Rana on his blind eye and kidney transplant. Rana is hailed as hot hunk for his macho physique and manly looks. However not many know that he had a blind eye and underwent kidney transplant.
Speaking about it, he said “The eye now, over the years, has become a comedy because I can’t see from one side. And in action, it gets really funny. If I don’t have my lenses on and there’s too much dust, it gets a bit messy. I tell people I’m almost like the Terminator. I have an eye, I have a kidney, I have a bunch of things transplant. You’ve seen the Terminator? I’m almost there, guys.”
About his action sequences with Arjun Rampal in Rana Naidu 2, he said “One part of the take, Arjun kept looking at me and asking me if I’m crying. I was like no dude, it’s just water, it’s not the problem with the eye. He’s like, are you crying? I’m like, no dude. But yeah, that happens,”
Rana, few years back shared “Should I tell you one thing, I am blind in my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else’s eye, which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye, I can see no one. LV Prasad (Eye Institute) operated on me when I was young.”
He also revealed “Everyone saw me bulked up for Baahubali. So, everyone asked if I was ill, and I didn’t want to answer them. It was harder for me to live with people in the city; it was too much. I started becoming a slightly mean person. There was a point when, if people asked about my health, I said, unless you can donate a kidney or an eye, don’t ask about it. I didn’t like what I was doing.”