Kangana Ranaut Says Yoga Helped Her Sister Rangoli Heal From Acid Attack After 53 Surgeries

In a world obsessed with beauty, it is difficult for an acid attack survivor to find hope and strength again to lead a normal life, as people constantly judge you.

Kangana Ranaut's sister Rangoli has been a victim of acid attacks. She underwent 53 surgeries as half of her face was burnt after a roadside Romeo threw acid on her, when she was 21 years old.

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Kangana Ranaut says her sister had stopped talking at all because of the mental trauma she went through.

"Rangoli has the most inspiring Yoga story, a road side Romeo threw acid on Rangoli when she was hardly 21, with third-degree burns, half of her face burnt, one eye lost its vision, one ear melted away and a breast severely damaged, she had to go through 53 surgeries in 2-3 years but that wasn¡¯t all, my biggest concern was her mental health as she had stopped to speak".

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Furthermore, she revealed that an Air Force officer she was engaged to, rejected her.

"No matter what happened she would not say a word just stare blankly at everything, she was engaged to an Air Force officer and when he saw her face after the acid attack he left and never returned, even then she did not shed a tear neither she uttered a word, doctors told me she is in a state of shock, they gave her therapies and put her on medication for psychiatric help but nothing helped"

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It was yoga that brought a change in her. "That time I was hardly 19 years old, I did yoga with my teacher Surya Narayan and had no idea that it could help patients with burns and psychological traumas also with retina transplant recovery and lost vision ¡­ I desperately wanted her to talk to me, so I took her everywhere with me even to my Yoga classes. She started practicing Yoga and I saw a dramatic transformation in her."

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Yoga also helped Rangoli regain vision in her eye. "Not only she started to respond to her pain and my lame jokes but also regained her lost vision in one eye ¡­.. Yoga is the answer to every question ( misery) you will ever have, did you give it a chance yet?"

On the occasion of International Yoga Day, Kangana also opened up on the yoga journey of her parents, brother as well as sister in law. "A few years ago Mother was diagnosed with diabetes , thyroid and high level of cholesterol(600) doctor said we need to do an open heart surgery for her cause there might be blockage, I told mother with tears in my eyes give me 2 months of your life please I can¡¯t let them open your heart, she trusted me and eventually I succeeded in my persistent pursuit today she has no meditation, no illness she is healthiest and fittest in the family," she wrote about her mother.