Georgeous Rani Mukerji and stunts?

Rani Mukerji. Photo Credit: CelebMagic News

March 14, 2008 (Celebmagic.blogspot.com) - Rani Mukerji's forthcoming film, a fantasy family drama directed by Kunal Kohli, required her to do dangerous sequences flying in the air as an angel.

Rani's character plays a nanny with magical powers who looks after the kids of Saif Ali Khan's character, a business executive.

The film is reportedly inspired by the classic drama Mary Poppins (1964).

In it Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) is a super-nanny who looks after the kids of a cold banker. She flies in with her umbrella whenever the children are in distress and proceeds to set things right for them using her extraordinary magical powers, before flying off again.

It was the flying around that she had to do as an angel that forced Rani to grapple with wires, harnesses and pulleys, equipment you would expect Hrithik Roshan and Akshay Kumar to be more comfortable with.

"Rani underwent many rehearsals and trials for the stunt scenes. We shot on many outdoor locations in Mumbai, at Film City and inside the Yash Raj studios. At every place, we took utmost precaution. It could have been very dangerous if Rani had slipped. Thankfully, she pulled it off without retakes," Kohli told TOI.

Another challenge for Rani was that she had to wear the same delicate angel ensemble, designed by Manish Malhotra, throughout the film.

Amisha Patel, also in the film, faced her own challenges. She had to learn Scuba diving for underwater sequences between her and Saif, presumably the masala part of the film.