The Ghazi Attack : Rana Daggubati Being A Certified Deep Sea Diver Shot The Underwater Scenes On His Own.
Actor Rana Daggubati who would be seen as a Naval Officer in the upcoming War Drama Ghazi has revealed how he performed the gruelling underwater scenes required for the movie Ghazi. Rana Daggubati , 32 , told that he did most of the stunts by himself and said , “II’m a certified deep sea diver and have a professional diving licence , but it has been a while since I had my last dive so I wanted to try my skills and had to do few rehearsal rounds before the start of the shoot.”
Rana Daggubati added , “It is not at all simple because we had no idea of what we would encounter and we always had to look out for any sudden water currents and for pieces of metal. And for such scenes to be filmed one has to be trained specially.”
Ghazi which was originally made in Telugu language will now be releasing in Hindi as The Ghazi Attack and is based on the story of how a Pakistani Submarine PNS Ghazi was sunk by the Indian Submarine S21 during the 1971 War between India & Pakistan.
Rana Daggubati As Lt Arjun Varma In The Ghazi Attack.
Rana Daggubati’s character in The Ghazi Attack is named as Lt. Commander Arjun Varma. His fellow officers are played by Atul Kulkarni and Kay Kay Menon. It is reported that the crew of S21 were forced to remain underwater for 18 days and the war film The Ghazi Attack will document their survival as well as the destruction of the Pakistani submarine.
Rana Daggubati once told in an interview that , “The underwater sequences were shot for over 3 days and it required me to be underwater from 6 in the morning to 2 in the night. It was exhausting but was committed to give my best. The fact that it is a 1st of its kind movie motivates me to keep working hard.”
Rana Daggubati added, “After shooting for a month , I knew a lot of actors started to feel claustrophobic as there were occasions when we did not see sunlight for days together and this is when the crew decided to take a break and shoot the other portions which happen on land.”
Rana Daggubati has underwent a massive physical change for his role as Lt Arjun Varma in The Ghazi Attack which also stars Taapsee Pannu and late Om Puri.
The Ghazi Attack is directed by Sankalp Reddy and this war movie will hit the theatres on February 17 , 2017 and will release simultaneously in languages like Hindi , Telugu and Tamil. Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions is presenting the Hindi Version of The Ghazi Attack.
After Ghazi , Rani Daggubati will be seen in the magnum opus movie Baahubali 2 as Bhallala Deva which is directed by ace film director S S Rajamouli.
