According to the King Khan, there are two things he will not do in movies – he will not kiss and he will not ride a horse. He was quoted as saying that he feels weird kissing on screen and also he doesn’t know how to do it.
The point here is not whether or not X will kiss Y for Z number of seconds or minutes; but the lascivious amount of attention that film and the alleged kissing scene receives for this. This is a telling critique on movie audiences in the country!
So what is it with Bollywood and kissing? Why does on screen smooch raise a furore and so many eyebrows along with it? That poor chap Emran Hashmi, (aka the serial kisser) is known more for his labial abilities than his histrionic ones. The media routinely counts the number of smacks and smooches that a film has and collectively gasps that some old Mallika Sherawat film had 13 liplocks, and calls it a record! Never mind what the film was about!
The slavering media attention was focused last year on Kurbaan, the film starring Bollywood’s hottest couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, for, you guessed it, a steamy kiss! It would seem that a record has been created for the longest kiss on camera; the steamy osculation which was supposed to be the longest between any two stars in the history of Bollywood. And this made headlines!
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