In 2017, he did India's first underwater film, The Ghazi Attack. It opened to very positive reviews.
After Baahubali 2 he further did a Telugu political Thriller movie Nene Raju Nene Mantri in which he plays a Politician with grey shades, alongside Kajal Aggarwal. This film too received positive reviews for Rana's acting and screen presence. The film, also called NRNM, was also released in Tamil as Naan Aanaiyittal and in Malayalam as Raja Kireedam. It was also dubbed into Hindi as Main Hi Raja Main Hi Mantri. Along with the movies, he also starred in a web series called Social. Further, he hosted a Telugu Television programme, No 1. Yaari, which created the highest TVP values for a Telugu TV show later starred as the main antagonist in Telugu film Baahubali The Beginning (2015), which recorded the second highest gross.
As a Visual Effects producer, Rana won the State Nandi Award for Best Special Effects in 2006 for the Telugu film Sainikudu.In 2006, he received the National Film Award for co-producing Bommalata A Bellyful of Dreams.
Rana is also an established television personality, as he hosted award shows such as the 2nd IIFA Utsavam, the 2nd South Indian International Movie Awards and he currently hosts his own celebrity talk show, No. 1 Yaari, which brought celebrities such as Vijay Deverakonda, S.S. Rajamouli.
His paternal grandfather was Tollywood film producer D. Ramanaidu. His paternal uncle Venkatesh and his cousin Naga Chaitanya are also actors in the film industry. Rana revealed in 2016 that he is blind in his right eye, and his left eye is a transplanted one. The surgery was done in L. V. Prasad Hospital, Hyderabad. Another surgery was done on his right eye when he was 14, but was unsuccessful.He did his schooling in Hyderabad and Chennai from Hyderabad Public School and Chettinad Vidyashram respectively.
He played a professional killer in the film Nenu Naa Rakshasi, under Puri Jagannath's direction,which was a box office bomb.His first release in 2012 was Naa Ishtam, which was followed by his second Hindi film Department. He next starred in Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum, directed by Krish, which became a box office success.
S. S. Rajamouli's Baahubali, in which he is the lead antagonist.Rana played Bhallaladeva, the cousin of Baahubali, who had negative shades and received unprecedented appreciation from critics. Baahubali The Beginning was released worldwide in July 2015 and was the highest grossing film in India at the time of its release. The concluding film of the series Baahubali 2 The Conclusion, became the first Indian film to cross 1000 crore and is currently the second highest grossing Indian film..
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