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Bollywood Goes Underwater: Popular Scenes, Activities & Attractions

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Popular Underwater Activities for tourists nowadays include – Submarine, Sea Walk, Sub-Scooter & Snorkeling Trips. Some of these may require you to know swimming (and even scuba diving).

However, its the Bollywood films which are depicting a lot of underwater sequences, some of them look just spectacular on-screen.

Famous Bollywood Underwater Sequences

Here are some Bollywood movies that had elaborate underwater sequences, where actors learnt swimming and/or scuba diving to make the scenes more authentic.

  1. Ek Villian (2014): The underwater scene for the song ‘Galliyan’ was shot in Mauritius.


  2. Warning 3D (2013): India’s first under-water 3D film
  3. Talash (2012): Had a couple of underwater sequences. Aamir Khan learnt swimming just for these scenes (he couldn’t swim earlier)


  4. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011): Explore the oceanic world in this wonderfully shot underwater sequence in Spain.



  5. Kites (2010): Dreamlike sequence that showed Hrithik Roshan & Barbara Mori reuniting in the deep blue sea.



  6. Blue (2009): This movie had several underwater scenes (shot in the Bahamas) and is one of the most expensive Indian movies.


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