In most of the Bollywood movies, the audience isn’t satiated without a forgery of alliance between the protagonist and his or her partner as according to them that should underline the bible of romance.
However, it is not always all rosy on the other side of the lens and despite being sublime actors, a few stars refuse to kiss their co-actors on the screen and it can come for various reasons. It can be something personal or it may even be something weird. In this piece we will take a look at five actors who declined to kiss their partners on screen.
1. Salman Khan
Salman Khan had signed a “no-kissing” indenture with Bhagyasree in Maine Pyar Kiya. However, there came a juncture when the photographer asked Salman to just grab the actress and smooch her forcibly. However, Salman Khan clearly said a no, thereby ensuring the fact that the actress was in a good and secured company.
2. Aishwariya Rai Bachchan
Ranbir Kapoor and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan lit up the silver screens with their chemistry on the sets of ‘Ae dil hai mushkil’. However, as per rumours, Aishwariya had a kissing scene with Ranbir on the sets. The former Miss Universe was uncomfortable in doing the same and requested the director to tone it down.
3. Fawad Khan
Fawad Khan was not comfortable in going ahead with a lip-lock scene with Alia Bhatt in Kapoor and Sons. The script was written with the smooch incorporated in it, but Fawad managed to perform a cheat kiss. Every time Alia would go near his face, he would flinch away and finally the cheat kiss caught the essence of the chemistry on the sets.
4. Kareena Kapoor Khan
After her marriage in 2013, she had inhibitions about kissing anyone and doing bedroom scenes. She turned down intimate scenes with Ajay Devgn in a romantic song in Satyagraha as she didn’t want to brush lips with her husband’s good friend.
5. Priyanka Chopra
PeeCee refused to do an intimate scene with Annu Kapoor who played one of her seven husbands in the movie ‘Saat Khoon Maaf’. According to her, she refused to be a part of the intimate scene because, “it was simply out of sheer respect for Annu’s age, seniority and work.”