Soha Ali Khan's cuss words?

The embarrassment that followed her dare bare act for a magazine cover is still to wear off for Soha Ali Khan, and she's being extra careful not to upset her big brother Saif Ali Khan all over again.

But the caution is now almost assuming the proportions of a paranoia for the young lady. Apparently, the much chastened Soha stalled the shooting of the film Dil Kabaddi after she point blank refused to mouth the necessary dialogues. The scene was a spat between her and Irrfan Khan ? who play husband and wife in the film ? but Soha threw a fit when it came to using cuss words.

A unit member revealed that Soha refused to mouth the gaalis at the last minute even though she knew that it was integral to the scene ? she'd even been given a bound script beforehand.

"The dialogues contained some cuss words that people ordinarily use on the streets. One of those gaalis was made famous during the infamous Harbhajan Singh-Andrew Symmonds spat. When Soha came on the sets for the shot, she just refused to do the scene," adds our source.

The director, Anil Sharma Senior, intervened but despite several efforts to convince Soha, it proved futile. He ultimately fumed that he can't be expected to change critical scenes at the whims and fancy of an actor.

"But Soha just stubbornly stuck to her stand. She then said that the scene shocked and scandalised her and that it went against her image because she was personally a shy girl. With the shoot in jeopardy, the director had no choice but to change entire scene and a critical element of the story because of Soha," the unit member says.

When contacted, Anil Sharma confirmed that such an incident had indeed taken place and that he'd been forced to change the script of the film.

"Look, the idea was not to embarrass or make Soha uncomfortable...we wanted to show her anger against Irrfan and she'd been asked to shout some abuses at him. But then we reworked it (the scene) to show her kicking and throwing things at him," said Anil.