Akshay
Kumar
hurt
himself
on
Wednesday
night
while
shooting
for
Sajid
Nadiadwala's
Housefull
at
the
Goregaon
Sports
Complex.
The
actor
injured
his
right
eardrum
and
it
started
bleeding
but
he
insisted
on
finishing
the
day's
work.
Says
a
source
present
on
the
sets,
"Akshay
was
shooting
an
underwater
sequence
in
a
swimming
pool.
He
dived
in
to
the
deep-end
of
the
pool
quickly,
without
equalising
pressure
and
in
the
process,
hurt
his
right
eardrum.
But
he
continued
shooting
despite
being
in
extreme
pain.
Only
after
the
shoot
got
over
did
he
allow
Sajid
Nadiadwala
to
take
him
to
the
Kokilaben
Ambani
hospital
in
Andheri
in
the
early
hours
of
the
morning.
After
the
doctors
treated
him
for
his
injury
they
strictly
advised
him
to
rest
it
out
at
home
for
the
next
10
days
and
to
cancel
all
shoots.
Akshay
was
to
leave
tonight
for
the
shoot
of
a
film
but
has
now
postponed
all
work
commitments." Director
Sajid
Khan
confirms,
"When
you
get
into
seven-feet-deep
water,
you
have
to
close
your
nose
and
go
into
the
water.
Akshay
dove
in
too
quickly
without
doing
so,
and
the
water
rushed
into
his
eardrums
and
the
pressure
affected
his
right
eardrum.
All
of
us
could
see
Akshay
in
great
pain
so
I
kept
telling
him
we
could
pack
up;
he
refused.
Finally,
when
the
shooting
ended
that
night,
Nadiadwala
took
him
to
the
hospital.
By
then
Akshay
was
in
too
much
pain.
At
the
hospital,
they
found
a
slight
internal
injury
to
his
eardrum
and
advised
him
rest."
Sajid
is
all
praise
for
Akshay.
"He's
a
thorough
professional!
I
have
seen
him
in
extreme
pain
or
shivering
from
fever
but
he
doesn't
utter
a
word
but
continues
shooting.
In
Italy,
while
shooting
for
Housefull,
we
had
to
shoot
in
a
hotel
on
the
edge
of
a
cliff,
which
had
eight
floors.
While
foreign
stuntsmen
would
think
twice
and
use
cables
and
other
things
to
move
from
the
balcony
of
one
floor
we
would
see
a
cool-as-a-cucumber
Akshay
jumping
with
only
cables
to
different
balconies.
I
have
never
seen
any
actor
perform
as
scary
stunts
as
him.
I
used
to
get
scared
but
now
I
have
stopped.
He
knows
what
he's
doing
and
enjoys
performing
high-voltage
stunts."