diff --git a/plugins/httpapi/nd.py b/plugins/httpapi/nd.py
index ccf0bc5..582a08d 100644
--- a/plugins/httpapi/nd.py
+++ b/plugins/httpapi/nd.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import traceback
 import mimetypes
 import tempfile
+import sys
 from ansible.module_utils.six import PY3
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import ConnectionError
@@ -261,7 +262,22 @@ def send_file_request(self, method, path, file=None, data=dict(), remote_path=No
                 self.nd.fail_json(msg="Cannot use requests_toolbelt MultipartEncoder() because requests_toolbelt module is not available")
             mp_encoder = MultipartEncoder(fields=fields)
             multiheader = {"Content-Type": mp_encoder.content_type, "Accept": "*/*", "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br"}
-            response, rdata = self.connection.send(path, mp_encoder.to_string(), method=method, headers=multiheader)
+
+            if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+                # For Python 2+
+                py2_default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding()
+                reload(sys)
+                sys.setdefaultencoding("latin-1")  # To handle UnicodeDecodeError exception during the send function call
+
+            mp_data = mp_encoder.to_string()
+            response, rdata = self.connection.send(path, mp_data, method=method, headers=multiheader)
+
+            # Resetting it to the default encoding
+            if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+                # For Python 2+
+                reload(sys)
+                sys.setdefaultencoding(py2_default_encoding)
+
         except Exception as e:
             self.error = dict(code=self.status, message="ND HTTPAPI MultipartEncoder Exception: {0} - {1} ".format(e, traceback.format_exc()))
             raise ConnectionError(json.dumps(self._verify_response(None, method, path, None)))