Ram Gopal Varma has it that Rana has burst forth like a volcano with 'Nene Raju-Nene Mantri'. Also, the director has always believed that Teja is the best among all his assistants.

"I always believed that Rana had the greatest screen presence I ever saw in my life and I sincerely thought he was not getting his due only because of the jealous and prejudiced view of people who were thinking he is not a pedigreed son of a big star but just an ordinary son of a money bag studio owner called Suresh," he writes.

"And I also always believed that Teja had the greatest talent among all my assistants and just one of the many proofs of my belief is that Teja made a super blockbuster hit Jayam with a nobody from the street called Nitin," he continues.

"Today Rana is already up there as an already existing volcano and where I failed in 'Department' and various others failed in other films, I am so thrilled it took the great Teja to push Rana to a bigger upper limit and for this, I am so happy and so proud about both of them," he says.