Leading Bollywood and South Indian actress Rakul Preet Singh is juggling projects in multiple languages. She has shared that for one crucial sequence in one of her upcoming films 'I Love You' she had to stay underwater for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. To achieve that she had to be in the water for fourteen hours .

Rakul stated during the promotions of the film "The film required me to be in a certain frame of mind to understand emotions deeply. On the whole, I did rigorous prep for a month of truly connecting with my emotions. On training for the underwater sequence, there was a scuba instructor named AzahaanAdenwala who trained me for underwater holding for two mins 30 secs that we were timing for.”

The 33 year old beauty added “The biggest challenge to shoot the underwater sequence was that I was in water from 2 p.m. in the afternoon to literally 4 a.m. in the morning and I was wet all day and the water was very cold. They were pouring hot water over me after every shot so that my body does not get extremely cold. Of course, you have burning eyes due to the chlorine in the water and that is also a challenge but I really enjoyed this challenge because it helped me push myself to the limits.”

'I Love You' a romantic thriller directed by Nikhil Mahajan premieres directly on Jio Cinema on June 16th. It Rakul Preet Singh and Pavail Gulati as the lead pair with Akshay Oberoi and Kiran Kumar also in the cast.

Rakul Preet Singh's next Tamil theatrical release will be 'Ayalaan' on Diwali this year. The SciFi film directed by Ravikumar has music by A.R. Rahman and stars Sivakarthikeyan, Isha Koppikar, Karunakaran, Banupriya and Yogi Babu. She is also playing an important lead character in Kamal Haasan's 'Indian 2' directed by Shankar with Anirudh scoring the music.