in 2018 fans of rana daggubati were shocked when he shared a picture of him looking skinny on social media fans of the actor were used to him looking bulked up for his role of bhallaladeva for baahubali so they were surprised to see him look like a man transformed later reports surfaced that the actor was in the us to undergo an operation but he never confirmed the same but when he attended samantha akkinenis recent talk show he opened up about it for the first time talking about how the family felt when the incident happened samantha said in 2018 we returned from a family holiday in kashmir and were told he was going in for an eye surgery but a day later we received critical information and everyone at home was worried she called rana a rock for staying strong even when everyone around him were crumbling and even got teary eyed while talking about it rana on the other hand opened up on how he went in for a lasik surgery but after the routine blood pressure check ended finding out that he needs to get further tests done in the us i had bp of 220190 and after getting tested in the us was told i was born hypertensive and because of that i had calcification around my heart and my kidneys had failed and right at that time a crew was waiting for me in thailand to shoot for aranya but to see my strong dad in his weakest moment made me realise how serious it was i was asked to stop eating meat salt stop smoking and consumptions of alcohol its only my family and love for cinema that got me through this he said and while he remained stoic all through the episode it was only when his sister malavika daggubati and naga chaitanya spoke that he got teary eyed rana daggubati has a bunch of exciting projects lined up he has aranya with prabhu solomon apart from virata parvam with venu udugula and sai pallavi further details are awaited hes also now on project rebuild working on his fitness and making a game plan for life from scratch