Rani overcomes hydrophobia for a role

Despite her fear of water, actress Rani Mukerji did underwater action sequences for her upcoming movie 'Mardaani 2,' which is directed by Gopi Puthran.

"All my life I have tried several times to be able to get myself to swim but unfortunately, I have not been successful.

The first thing I asked Gopi after the narration got over is how important is the underwater sequence, is it very imperative for the film or whether we can do without it.

To my utter shock, Gopi said that it cannot be changed and he would like to shoot the sequence underwater and he would prefer not changing it," Rani said.

Sharing how she overcame her fear, Rani added: " I realised that it was going to be a huge challenge for me going forward with the film to do this particular underwater sequence.

Doing an underwater shot is still ok if they are just beauty shots as one can still manage it however doing action underwater gets very challenging.

I spoke to Gopi and gradually told him that unfortunately, his lead actor does not know to swim and he was utterly shocked. He was then in a dilemma of how this sequence is ever going to take place.

I requested Gopi to keep the underwater sequence as the last thing that we will shoot for the film so I could get time to practice swimming and also try to get rid of my fear."