Rakul Preet Singh stayed in water for 14 hours for ‘I love you’ scene

Mumbai (IANS) | Actress Rakul Preet Singh has started preparing for her upcoming film ‘I Love You’. For a scene in the film, the actress had to stay underwater for two minutes and 30 seconds and to prepare for it, the actress did everything she could to stay in the water!

Talking about the training, the actress said, “The film required a certain mindset from me to delve into the emotions.

All in all, I prepared hard for a month to truly connect with my feelings. On training for the underwater sequence, there was a scuba instructor named Azhan Adanwala who trained me to hold underwater for two minutes and 30 seconds.

The sequence was shot from 2 in the afternoon to 4 in the morning. He had to shoot underwater for both day and night sequences.

So I did some sessions of her. Overall, worked hard everyday to connect with the emotions and physically train for the film.

She added: The biggest challenge of shooting the underwater sequence was that I was in the water from 2 in the afternoon till 4 in the morning and I was wet all day and the water was very cold.

They were pouring hot water on me after every shot so that my body would not get too cold. The chlorine in the water was burning in your eyes, which was a big challenge. But I really enjoyed the challenge.

Rakul Preet Singh and Pavail Gulati starrer romantic thriller I Love You is all set for its direct-to-digital premiere on JioCinema on 16th June. The film also stars Akshay Oberoi and Kiran Kumar.

Presented by Jio Studios, I Love You is an Athena and The Vermilion World Production, written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Nikhil Mahajan and produced by Jyoti Deshpande, Sunir Kheterpal and Gaurav Bose.

–IANS