A few weeks ago, director Zoya Akhtar had to tone down the chemistry between Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif in the song Ek Junoon in her next, “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara“. Reason being it was a group song also featuring Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin.
Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif’s chemistry was taking away the essence of the group number. Now, Zoya is faced with another dilemma; to retain or drastically tone down a three-minute intense kissing scene filmed on both of them.
Revealing the nature of the scene, an insider elaborates, “After a serve exchange of words, Hrithik’s character Arjun leaves in a Buick. Katrina (Laila) chases him on her bike. Stopping his car, she forces him out and pinning him on the bonnet, kisses him and its a rather long scene, about three minutes long”.
However, Zoya’s predicament triggered from their sizzling chemistry in the Ek Junoon number.
The source recalls, “When they saw the first cut of the song shot during the Spanish Tomatina festival, Zoya felt that the chemistry between the two actors was too much for a group song”. The source adding that the filmmaker also understood the delimma of the two actors for whom it could get awkward personally”.
Source says, “Hrithik’s kissing scenes with Barbara Mori in Kites and Aishwarya Rai in Dhoom 2 were talked about a lot. Kats liplock with John Abraham in New York was hyped too”.
An informer maintains that the scene is very crucial as it conveys the strengthening of Arjun and Laila’s romance. Source says, “That’s why Zoya is finding it difficult to decide on how much of the kiss to retain and how much to leave out”.
We tried contacting Zoya Akhtar, but she did not revert to our text messages.
