An exclusive look at ‘The Blue Adventure’, the coffee table book of Blue

A coffee table book is a wonderful way of promoting a film and if you get it right, there’s nothing like it. With The Blue Adventure, a limited-edition book on the forthcoming underwater adventure Blue, Read More">the makers of the film just about get it right. This 120-page book is a visual treat – juxtaposed withRead More

A coffee table book is a wonderful way of promoting a film and if you get it right, there's nothing like it. With The Blue Adventure, a limited-edition book on the forthcoming underwater adventure Blue, the makers of the film just about get it right. This 120-page book is a visual treat - juxtaposed with interesting tidbits of information and comments from the cast and crew - makes an interesting read.

Bollywood Hungama gives you an exclusive peek into this book, a brain child of director Anthony D'Souza.

Despite all the rumors of a tiff between them, Akshay Kumar and Sanjay Dutt 'shared great camaraderie on and off the sets' says the book. We are not complaining.

Lara was made to jump through hoops! A diver lay on the ocean floor blowing bubble rings upwards and she had to dive down through them. As if this wasn’t enough, she then had to dive below the bubbles and swim up, Read More">through them. A sizzling Lara Dutta is one of the highlights of BlueRead More

Lara was made to jump through hoops! A diver lay on the ocean floor blowing bubble rings upwards and she had to dive down through them. As if this wasn't enough, she then had to dive below the bubbles and swim up, through them.

A sizzling Lara Dutta is one of the highlights of Blue and she's even more beautiful underwater. A hydrophobic till Blue happened, she trained for the film and is now 'a certified CMAS 1 star diver'. Always the one for a candid confession, Lara admits in her note, "I had a bit of a tough time staying beneath the water for a length of time at first, cause the body would keep coming pooping right back up in a very 'Hello! Here I am!' fashion."

Lara's look in the film is classy western, with a lot of beachwear and there are a lot of pretty sights and sites in the book, which make Lara the hottest eye-candy this season. Indeed, the book is a collectible just for its double spread Lara posters!

Sample this. ‘Bahamas- Akshay swims under the fire: The explosion was created with 50 pounds of black powder, 100 gallons of flammable liquid, 100 gallons of propane in 40 mortars’. Akshay shares in his note, Read More">“I trained myself to be able to handle whatever these guys could throw at me. When there is an entireRead More

Sample this. 'Bahamas- Akshay swims under the fire: The explosion was created with 50 pounds of black powder, 100 gallons of flammable liquid, 100 gallons of propane in 40 mortars'. Akshay shares in his note, "I trained myself to be able to handle whatever these guys could throw at me. When there is an entire crew waiting for you to nail a shot, you do not want to be the fool to get it wrong."

The book is resplendent with anecdotes of how the cast and crew risked limb and life in what was turning out to be an arduous but enjoyable underwater shoot. "I just want to say that if this movie gets appreciated half as much as it deserves, I'd be a very happy man. I take my hat off to everyone who made this insane movie come true," concludes Akshay.

The book gives an aspiring filmmaker like yours truly some ready tips on how to go about shooting underwater. Underwater DOP Pete Zuccarini is quoted. “Making a water movie is 10 times difficult. We had to swim with heavy lights and cables (see top pic), cameras, adjust props and sets, Read More">all the while on theRead More

The book gives an aspiring filmmaker like yours truly some ready tips on how to go about shooting underwater. Underwater DOP Pete Zuccarini is quoted. "Making a water movie is 10 times difficult. We had to swim with heavy lights and cables (see top pic), cameras, adjust props and sets, all the while on the sea floor, a hundred feet from the surface. To be efficient, we communicated mostly with hand signals and most importantly, obeyed ascent rates and decompression limits." Quite a mouthful.

The book also offers a crash-course in shark behaviour - "At times, the sharks swam directly into choreographed fight scenes as if on cue; maybe because they were curious and attracted to the rapid thrashing of body parts during the fight scenes."

And now, the much talked about bike sequences. Many would like to claim they are copied from Hollywood films, Read More">but listen to what the director Anthony D’Souza has to say. “My kind of film has always been larger than life. I wanted Blue to be the Best Action Film made in India.” From the looksRead More

And now, the much talked about bike sequences. Many would like to claim they are copied from Hollywood films, but listen to what the director Anthony D'Souza has to say. "My kind of film has always been larger than life. I wanted Blue to be the Best Action Film made in India." From the looks of it, it seems we are getting there.