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Every couple has that one dynamic everyone secretly wonders about — who's the calmer one, who's running on caffeine and back-to-back calls, and whether opposites really do balance each other out. For Rana Daggubati and Miheeka Bajaj, the Internet's assumption has always been simple: he's the multitasking whirlwind; she's the mental health advocate keeping him grounded. Turns out, reality flipped the script.
In a recent conversation with The Hollywood Reporter India, Daggubati was asked the obvious question. Miheeka has been quite vocal lately about slowing down and balancing the hustle with holistic care, so has any of that rubbed off on him? His answer: not exactly. If anything, he says, it's gone the other way.
"Now she's got a bunch of things to do," he said, half-joking. Between projects across Bombay and Goa and a call schedule that reportedly outpaces his own, Daggubati was happy to take credit for the shift. "I love it, it's great," he added.
Dauggubati said, “ Well, now she has projects in Bombay, Goa. She travels more than I do, she's on calls longer than I, and I love it. It's great.”
Pressed on whether that famous work-life balance actually exists for either of them, Daggubati didn't pretend otherwise. In his head, he said, the two are already balanced — because the work itself doesn't feel like work. Daggubati said, “ Now, I don't see any other job or anything else that one can do in life that can keep you so engaged. And it's not like someone's put a gun to my head saying, listen, yehi karna hai."
Spending a day sitting with an idea he's excited about, he explained, isn't something he's looking to switch off from; it's the whole point.
It's not all hustle talk, though. Daggubati did credit Miheeka with a "Zen-like energy" that's been grounding him — and revealed one of the sweeter details behind their relationship in the process. Her favourite possession, by her own admission, is a handmade Yoda figurine (from Star Wars) he gave her early on, back when she asked him for something that represented him fully. His answer, apparently, pointed to nothing else.
Rana explained, “Oh, it's, it's actually a mould, like a handmade mould of a Yoda which we picked up at some point somewhere. And I think when we first met, she said, okay, what's something that represents you fully that you can give me and I can keep? And everything was just pointing to Yoda and nothing else. So, I said, this is all the knowledge, this is where I get everything from. Keep it very carefully.”
So maybe the Daggubati household hasn't quite cracked a work-life balance yet. But between the multitasking, the matching hustle and a Yoda figurine holding it all together, it's working out for them.