Recently, Rana Daggubati (actor and producer) and Nag Ashwin (director) went to the Synapse 2024 event in Gurgaon. Being honest about his past health problems, the star said that his illness had made him mean. Rana had a kidney transplant a few years ago and an eye transplant when she was young.

“You look at life differently”

At the event, Rana said that he was still unhappy even though he was in the “most beautiful hospital.”

“I was at Mayo Clinic in the US; it’s the only place we could figure out what had happened to me. It’s funny because once you get into this life-threatening zone, you start looking at life very differently,” he said, adding, “Till then, everything I built or moved me forward had me in the centre. But you realise that’s not how things should be.”

He said, “I turned into a mean person”

He was physically tired from the illness, but Rana Daggubati said that it also made him mean.

“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.” He also said, “I started to be a little mean. If someone asked about my health, I would tell them not to ask unless they could donate a kidney or an eye.”

“Nature is a great healer”

Rana got better from his sickness while filming Prabhu Solomon’s Tamil movie Kaadan in the jungle. The movie was also released in Telugu as Aranya and in Hindi as Haathi Mere Saathi.

“I was lucky enough to be able to shoot in the jungle for almost a year. I took pictures of elephants. There were no judgments, and no one cared if I was sick. I needed the peace there. Nature is a greater healer than anything else.” he said.