What if we told you that your hunky actor actually pushed his gorgeous co-star while filming your favourite love song? Shubarna Mukerji Shu lays bare the truth behind some of Hindi cinema’s most romantic moments!
Those eyes brimming with love coupled with the heart-warming smiles, hugs that embrace your senses and promising words that might make even a stone want to come to life, just so that it could fall truly, madly, deeply in love... Ah! The charm of cinema has been our epicenter when it comes to Love and Hindi film songs have been the road map to getting there for the better part of the swiftly passed century. After all in a country where PDA is still considered foreign, how else would we know how to react to infatuation had we not seen the look Mastani gave the Peshwa when he presented her with a dagger, leaving a mark on her as he stripped her emotions bare? Would we have known that love doesn’t necessarily bleed red, and that it could very well go ‘Gerua...’ just the way the King of Romance Shah Rukh Khan exclaimed in Dilwale? So it is going to sound blasphemous when I tell you that all that you fell in love with was a big fat lie!!!
…Helped along, of course, by some good acting! To begin with, it is a fact that Kajol was more worried about freezing blue than turning ‘gerua’ as she professed loved to the Badshah himself. Yet we are not here to talk about nature taking its toll on the actors, neither do we want to repeat the much talked about gossip like when Mallika Sherawat shared that she was tormented by her co-star who had chomped on onions right before the smooch sequences in Khwahish. What the actors have themselves confessed to is known to all, it is what they never said that we shall talk about…
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