'I wasn't very comfortable with it at all': Aish

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'I wasn't very comfortable with it at all': Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on her first screen kiss... and the legal threats she received afterwards
By SARAH BULL
PUBLISHED: 16:08 GMT, 5 December 2012 | UPDATED: 09:18 GMT, 6 December 2012
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She's arguably the most famous Bollywood actress in the world, who has also been doing her best to forge a career for herself in Western cinema.
But one thing Aishwarya Rai still struggles with is the public displays of affection so commonly seen on the silver screen.
The 39-year-old actress had her first screen kiss with actor Hrithik Roshan in Dhoom 2 in 2006, but admits she is still less than comfortable with the prospect of such intimate scenes.

The picture that sparked a thousand words: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan found herself causing controversy with her first screen kiss with Hrithik Roshan in movie Dhoom 2 in 2006
In an new interview with Sir David Frost, Rai said that the scene caused such a stir in India that she even received legal threats following the movie's release.
She said: 'I did it once prominently in the movie Dhoom and it was so topical, and you'll be surprised, I mean I actually got a couple of notices, legal notices, from some people in the country turning around and saying "You are iconic, you're an example to our girls you have led your life in such an exemplary manner, they're not comfortable with you doing this on screen so why did you?"
'And I was like wow, I'm just an actor, doing my job, and here I am being asked to offer an explanation for a couple of seconds in a two, three hour piece of cinema.'
But Rai also said that she had many doubts about signing up to appear in Dhoom 2 simply because of the kissing scene.

Opening up: Bollywood star Rai spoke to Sir David Frost in the interview for Al Jazeera English
She said: 'It was around the same time that the interest in the western world from Hollywood, or European cinema, English cinema, from the industry there was a lot interest in me and the possibility of me working overseas, and I had already declined a couple of scripts purely on the basis of not being comfortable with the very physical scenes and the kissing because I'd never done that on screen and I just wasn't very comfortable with the idea.

World-class beauty: Rai says kissing is not likely to be commonplace in the Bollywood industry for a long time
'And I was quite sure even my audience was not very comfortable with me doing it on-screen. I was actually quite convinced about it but I still said okay, if I have to go down this path let me first do it in our cinema, in an Indian piece of cinema, and let me see if all my doubts are true, and they were.'
Rai added that while on-screen kisses are becoming more common in Bollywood, it will still be a long time before they become the standard.
She said: 'A lot of actors have kissed before that movie, they continue to kiss on screen till this very minute, but public display is not that common in Indian culture. Even our actors, it's very rare that actors look comfortable in our cinema on screen kissing.
'It almost looks like it's a planned moment, just to make much ado about a moment or to excite the audience. It's made into this separate entity from a scene, it's not very comfortable in our screenplay.'
However, Rai explained to Frost that passion in Bollywood is expressed via different means - through song and dance.
She said: 'What the kiss is in the western movies is what our songs do, and that's where our audience experiences all the emotions that the western audience does when their actors kiss. So that's a very comfortable space for us but I don't think the kiss visually has been.
'It's getting there, I mean now it's become very, very common so I think, I think, I still think our audience is getting comfortable with it, but I don't think universally.'
Rai's interview with Frost can be seen on Al Jazeera English each week at the following times GMT: Friday 2000; Saturday 1200; Sunday 0100; Monday 0600.


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Posted: 12 years ago
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Didn't she kiss that bhangan vivek Oberoi first?
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Originally posted by: New_nova

Didn't she kiss that bhangan vivek Oberoi first?


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Yes, in kyun, ho gaya na also chandrachurh singh in josh 😆
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She kissed Akshay Khanna first in Taal... jhooti kahi ki !!! 😆
Keep-----------Smiling !!!!😊
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Originally posted by: tomnjerry2

She kissed Akshay Khanna first in Taal... jhooti kahi ki !!! 😆

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So True 👏 😆
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Originally posted by: -Radhe-


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Yes, in kyun, ho gaya na also chandrachurh singh in josh 😆



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When she come 2 bichhoo gang's area, & confess her love for him, on top of the tower. Dubaara dekh le josh 😆
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Originally posted by: -Radhe-


When she come 2 bichhoo gang's area, & confess her love for him, on top of the tower. Dubaara dekh le josh 😆



Dubara Dekhaneki Himmat nahi hai mujme 😆 i belive you .
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Originally posted by: New_nova



Dubara Dekhaneki Himmat nahi hai mujme 😆 i belive you .


Abay Kandi movie hai, mujhe bahut achi lagti hai... Bikes, Gangs... O Sum 1 👍🏼

Haluwa hai kya 😆
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she did kiss so many tyms before but i guess dhoom 2 kiss made a hype wit all the rumours of the bacchans disapprovin it and all 😆 but i do hav to agree i m comfortable wit some not kissin lyk srk in jthj 🥺 and that too kat of all ppl 😭some hav been doin it all along so it doesnt make much of a difference if they kiss in movies lyk aamir ,abhishek, hritik etc

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Posted by: BhataktiJawani · 5 months ago

It clearly means Aishwarya was using Salman name for clout and sympathy. If she loved him she should have accepted him publicly....

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Posted by: Sultan.Mirza · 5 months ago

Love her accent they way gracefully she answered the question https://youtube.com/shorts/vtGKo3-3XKQ?si=RaNgSX3iINBxM-dR

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