The six-feet, three-inch export from the South is creating waves in Bollywood in his Hindi debut Dum Maaro Dum with his portrayal of a complex guilt-ridden coward turned hero. The actor says that he didn’t find it hard to leave his comfort zone in Hyderabad and venture into an alien Bollywood. “I have grown up in a film set,” says Rana who belongs to a strong film lineage in the South. He adds, “The only difference is the language, but I took Hindi diction lessons to overcome that barrier.”
Besides Hindi, Rana had to take guitar lessons also, to play the character of a Goan DJ. “Without music there’s no life,” says the avid music lover. Probe him about rumours linking him and Bipasha and he says, “This is baseless news and one should let it die a natural death.”