Manjari Phadnis to play a hydrophobic inWarningManjari Phadnis to play a hydrophobic in WarningActress Manjari Phadnis has revealed that she plays a hydrophobic in the upcoming 3D underwater film Warning. She says her fear of water is an important element in the film.


A huge portion of the film has been shot underwater.

Talking about her role in Warning, Manjari said: "I play Sabina Sanyal, who was a wild child in school, but now she is a doctor and she is very sorted in life. She knows what she wants. But the most important thing about her is that she is hydrophobic.

"In childhood, her best friend died due to drowning and that's an important part of my character."

Warning is based on a true story and while shooting all the actors had to stay in water almost all the time.

"The moment I read the script I was like 'Wow'. This is a lifetime opportunity for an actor because such kind of films have not been made in India so far. The entire film has been shot in the ocean," said Manjari.

"To shoot in an ocean was very difficult and a very challenging thing for any actor," she added.

Produced by Anubhav Sinha, Warning also stars Santosh Barmola, Suzana Rodrigues, Varun Sharma, Jitin Gulati, Sumit Suri and Madhurima Tuli. It will release on September 27.

The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is an ancient Chinese fortification, built to protect the Empire of China since the 3rd century BC against the raids of ‘barbarians’ from Mongolia and Manchuria. The main purpose of the Wall was not to prevent people from crossing but rather to prevent them from bringing their horses. The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,400 km, from the boundary with Korea on the Yalu River to the Gobi desert. The Wall was built during the reign of The First Emperor, the main leader of the short-lived Qin dynasty. The Wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several local walls built by the Warring States. It has been renovated and extended by several later dynasties, getting most of its current shape during the Ming Dynasty. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses. The Ming Dynasty Great Wall starts on the eastern end at Shanhai Pass, Qinhuangdao, in Hebei Province next to Bohai Gulf. Spanning nine provinces and 100 counties, it ends on the western end at Jiayu Pass located in northwest Gansu Province.

Jiayu Pass was intended to greet travelers along the Silk Road. Even though The Great Wall ends at Jiayu Pass, there are watchtowers (extending beyond Jiayu Pass along the Silk Road. These towers communicated by smoke to signal invasion. The Manchus crossed the Wall by convincing a crucial general Wu Sangui to open the gates of Shahai Pass and allow the Manchus to cross. Legend has it that they took three days for the Manchu armies to pass. After they conquered China, the Wall was of no strategic value as the people who the Wall was intended to keep out were ruling the country (becoming the Qing Dynasty). The government ordered people to work on the wall, and workers were under constant danger of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it is often called the “longest cemetery on Earth”.