Veteran actress Neena Gupta, who is known for being unafraid to speak her mind, is presently promoting her new Netflix anthology film Lust Stories 2. Along with them, Mrunal Thakur, Angad Bedi, Tamannaah Bhatia, Vijay Varma, Kajol, Kumud Mishra, Tillotama Shome, and Amruta Subhash appear in the film. Neena recently recalled filming her first on-screen kiss during a busy promotional period. Before filming the sequence, she admitted to being scared.
The famous actress revealed her early years when she appeared in the early 1990s television program Dillagi. She appeared in it along with Dilip Dhawan. After filming the kissing sequence with Dilip, Neena confessed that she used Dettol to rinse her mouth. She also talked about how the producers intended to use their kissing sequence as a promotional tool for the program, but it ended up backfiring on them.
Neena Gupta said, “As an actor you have to do all kinds of scenes, sometimes you have to step in mud, sometimes you have to stand in the sun for several hours. Many years ago, I did a serial with Dilip Dhawan. It had the first-ever lip-to-lip kissing scene on Indian TV. I couldn’t sleep all night. It wasn’t like he was a friend, we were acquaintances. He was good-looking, but that doesn’t really matter in these situations, because physically and mentally, I wasn’t ready. I was tense, but I convinced myself to continue it.”
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She continued, “It’s like some people can’t do comedy, some people can’t cry on camera. I drilled it into my head, and I did it. As soon as it ended, I rinsed my mouth with Dettol. It was so difficult for me to kiss somebody who I don’t know.” She added that the audience didn’t accept the kissing scene and the makers had to scrap it. Revealing the reason, she said at that time, people had one TV at home and families would end up watching it together and many people were aghast at the kissing scene. Lust Stories 2 features four short films helmed by Sujoy Ghosh, Amit Ravindernath Sharma, R Balki, and Konkona Sensharma.