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Ekta Kapoors Lip kissing AuditionsKiss-fest at auditions
If you want to grab a role in one of Balaji Telefilms's drama-filled shows and think that shooting off a few lines in front of the camera will suffice, this one is for you. Ekta Kapoor recently made 200 young boys and girls do far more than just look good and mouth a few lines. As her forthcoming untitled show demands intimacy, she asked those who went for the auditions to smooch random people from the opposite sex so that she could decide if they fit the bill or not.
83 couples shortlisted
83 couples who met Ekta's requirements were shortlisted. The audition for this show, which has been kept under wraps, has been going on since one-and-a-half months. Most of those who had gone to the Balaji office to audition for the new project were shocked at being asked to kiss those they don't know, that too passionately. Some openly refused to do it. A source says, "Many of them were shocked and decided to pack their bags and go home."
Adam Bedi, Sakshi Pradhan among those who kissed
"This is Ekta Kapoor's pet project and she is keeping a close watch on all the auditions that have been taking place," adds our source. Adam Bedi, his wife Nisha and Splitsvilla contestant Sakshi Pradhan were some of the actors who auditioned and managed to kiss freely without developing cold feet over the strangest of the auditions
'Will have to kiss openly'
Vikas Gupta, project head, confirmed the news and said, "Yes, this did happen. We hadn't informed those who came for the audition that they would have to kiss openly. I can't tell you for which show or film we had these auditions. It's too early to talk about it. The management is yet to decide if it will be a fiction show, reality show, a film or something else altogether."
Not cheap but classy: Ekta
Ekta too refused to divulge any details about the project. "It will come on television but only at a later date. Right now, all I will say is that I am creating a new medium and this is not anything cheap but something very classy waiting to happen," she said. When asked about him and partner Nisha being shortlisted during the auditions, Adam Bedi said, "I am still waiting to hear from Balaji."
Kiss Kiss Ko Bolu?
Mumbai Mirror broke the story of how boys and girls were asked to smooch each other at the Balaji office, if they were interested in being cast for a forthcoming show. A distraught Trupti Shukla, who auditioned at the Balaji office last month for the same project, is rather shaken up. "I need to tell you what transpired when I went there," she told Mumbai Mirror yesterday.
The first question he asked me was how good I would be at smooching someone. I fumbled. The second question was equally revolting. He asked me how good I would be at carrying off a swimsuit. I told him that I had come there to do some performance-oriented role and this was not something that fit the bill. Vikas then replied that there was a lot of performance-oriented stuff that I will be doing in the show, but smooching and donning a swimsuit would be one of the requirements. I was also asked what my take was on a 25-year-old girl making love to a 17-year-old boy. I failed to fathom the logic. After such questions, I told Vikas that I was leaving and walked out. Many girls left like I did too, but many also did the kissing shots in the next room."
"I am extremely shocked. More than shocked, I am disappointed. Where has the creativity gone? Are actors and actresses going to be judged by how well they smooch and how well they can carry off a swimsuit?" Trupti exclaimed, her anger rising, "Why were we not briefed that we would be asked such embarrassing questions? I had asked them for a brief prior to the audition but the girl on the line merely said that she knew nothing about the role."
Well Trupti, those are some murky waters you claim to have paddled through. Whoever said tinsel town was a cakewalk? But make sure you never kiss and tell. That's the golden rule.
http://www.unp.co.in/f46/kiss-fest-at-ekta-kapoor-s-auditions-56570/
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