Aranya: Rana Daggubati Shares The Extreme Efforts He Took For His Physical Transformation In The Film

Actor Rana Daggubati says as he began journeying with the character “Aranya“, which involved him spending time in the forest, he understood how a man from the jungles would look like.

For his forthcoming movie “Aranya”, he took his body transformations to the extreme, undertook immense physical and mental efforts to portray the character.

“As I began journeying with the character, which involved me spending time in the forest and getting to know a herd of elephants, it started becoming clearer how this person, a forest man, would look. And here we are, looking at Aranya/Bandev/Kaadan in his present form,” said Rana.

The tri-lingual movie shot in two different countries, in four forest locales in Kerala, Mahabaleshwar, Mumbai in India, and in Thailand, took 250 days to shoot, involving 145 cast and crew.

Rana is the protagonist in all three titles. While Pulkit Samrat plays Rana’s parallel lead in the Hindi version, southern actor Vishnu Vishal essays the role in “Kaadan” and “Aranya”.

The heroines in all three versions are Shriya Pilgaonkar and Zoya Hussain.