We all know Akshay Kumar performs his stunts on own. He has performed many such dangerous stunts in his new movie ‘Blule'. In fact, every actor in the film has performed some or the other death-defying stunts. For instance, Akshay plays with explosive fire in the depths of the oceans. For a particular scene, explosion has to takes place over the water where the wild ocean wind could have made it more dangerous. Fifty pounds of black powder, 100 gallons of propane in 40 mortars and 100 gallons of flammable liquid was used to make the explosion. Explaining about the making of scene, the underwater cinematographer, Pete Zuccarini said, “We wanted the fire from the blast to be large enough that it would appear impossible for Akshay to swim out from under it. James Bomalick, the action director, had his special effects crew make a line of mortar canons along the side of a large work boat; it reminded me of a pirate ship armed to wreak havoc!” In that underwater fight scene, Akshay loses his oxygen tank and goggles too after his boat explode. He is trying to come up to the surface through the explosion without goggles on his eyes. Recalling about the scene, Pete says, “If something went wrong his only option would be to swim down towards the sea floor to his safety team to get more air. During the training, Akshay had developed exceptional lung capacity, I was very confident that he could swim the full length of the fire blast to give us the great shot.” And as if adding to the danger, the team found debris from the explosion coming down to hurt the actor. The cinematographer, who was also swimming underwater, managed to miss one of it. __
