EXCLUSIVE - Aahana Kumra opens up on doing sex scenes in Lipstick Under My Burkha

Aahana Kumra has several bold scenes with Vikrant Massey in Lipstick Under My Burkha.

By Aishwarya V

Updated on Jul 22, 2017 | 10:13 AM IST | 19.7M

The trailer of Lipstick Under My Burkha took everyone by surprise for its bold and upfront content. The film is slated to release tomorrow and the critics have applauded the film.

Going by the trailer, we saw intense intimate scenes between Aahana Kumra and Vikrant Massey. During an exclusive interview with us when Ahana was asked about her approach towards these scenes, she stated, "Initially, I was very apprehensive and I had inhibitions to do the scene because I didn't know how to go about it. It is easy to write in the script that this one kissed this one on the lips. How am I going to do it? (laughs) that was my biggest question. Vikrant and I did workshops and were very comfortable with each other, we spoke about it at length. But the minute Alankrita said, "Action!" we were staring at each other like two idiots. We said to each other, "Tu karna, arre main kyu karu?!" This was the strangest conversation I had with a co-actor ever in my life. This cannot happen. It is really not easy to do it."

Another actor from the film, Plabita Borthakur added, "I was thinking that I just have a kissing scene, I have never done a kissing scene before and I was uncomfortable with that. I can imagine what you must have gone through. I was there during one of her shots and it totally looked uncomfortable. It's not an easy thing to do. However smooth it looked, it is not that way. When I looked at her I was like, 'Poor thing, my god!'"

Aahana went on to say, "It is difficult when you have so many men around you, your crew, but thankfully they were very good. If our crew was not nice, I don't think we would have been able to pull it off. Our DOP was such a shaant guy, we would not even find him on the camera, it was operating by itself."

The talented actor gave all the credit to the director of the film, Alankrita Shrivastava for helping her film these scenes. Aahana concluded by saying, "It's very intimidating to be doing these kinds of scenes. But I think because Alankrita is a female director, she made sure that we got comfortable. She told everybody on the closed sets to leave. I had asked Alankrita that can people who are not required leave the sets, they can do the lighting and leave. And that's when the comfort was set. We did that scene together, later on, mayhem was going to fall because there were bigger scenes and they were much more physically excruciating scenes. At times there were too many people and it was not possible to tell everyone to go, so I had to compromise on that and just concentrate on my scene."