Rana Daggubati immortalised his character Bhallala Deva in S S Rajamouli’s hugely popular venture Baahubali: The Beginning last year. Well, the larger than life movie depicted Rana has a perfect, beefed up antagonist who is always ready for a kill! The director is all set to release the second part of his magnum opus soon and the lead actors are turning no stone unturned in prepping for the movie, which is going to be HUGE. Rana has finished shooting for the action sequences for the film and has just five days of work left now.

According to reports the actor has been training hard for the past five months. He has been working out for two and half hours everyday, shuttling between weight training and cardio. The actor reportedly has only five days left of his shoot. Here’s how Rana’s look changed according to Bhallala Deva’s age  – “The older Bhallala is stronger and more beefy so I weighed around 108 110 kg for those portions of both the films while his younger version is strong too but leaner so I lost a few kilos for that. My weight has dropped to 92-93 kgs.“ In fact, the Ghazi actor also learnt martial arts much before the first part began and he continued with it in the second part. His diet for this regime has been high on carbs and protein but without any oil. His diet has been monitored and he was instructed to eat every two and a half hours! Phew! Sounds like a gruelling schedule but it has paid off surely, because Bhallaladeva is back and he means business!

The first look of this sequel will be out on october 22 as tweeted by the filmmaker himself. As for the movie, it is all set to release in April 2017. The movie also stars Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia and Anushka Shetty among others.