Akshay Kumar says when "Blue" director Anthony D'Souza approached him for the underwater thriller, the first thing he asked him was "Are you capable of making the movie?". Touted to be India's first underwater film, which is said to match international standards of filmmaking, "Blue" promises to bring with it some never-seen-before visuals and stunts.

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"The first thing I did was to look straight into his eyes and ask him - 'Do you actually think you are capable enough of making a film of this scale, genre and setting? You may say that you want to shoot the film in space or on the moon, but saying something and doing it are two different things. So how will you actually shoot the film?."

As things turned out, D'Souza had done his homework well in advance and showed some of his work from the past, which included certain advertisements he had directed as well as some groundwork on "Blue".