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Actor couple Vijay Varma and Tamannaah Bhatia, who recently confirmed their relationship after months of speculation, will be seen onscreen together for the first time in the Netflix anthology film Lust Stories 2. Tamannaah revealed in an interview that she broke her ‘no-kiss’ clause for the first time with this film. When Tamannaah informed Vijay about this, all Vijay could respond with was, ‘Thank you’.
Tamanaah, who has been part of the film industry for nearly 20 years, had always maintained this clause in her film contracts. She is known for her work in Hindi, Telugu and other regional-language cinema. In an interview with Instant Bollywood, Vijay said, “I met her (Tamannaah) for the reading at Sujoy Ghosh’s office. I think we broke the ice there. We shared our journey. She said ‘I have been working for 17 years. I had a no-kiss policy in my contract.’ And then, she was like, ‘I have not done done anything like this before. In the end, she told me that ‘you are the first actor I am going to be kissing onscreen’. I was like ‘thank you’.”
Lust Stories 2 has an ensemble cast of Kajol, Neena Gupta, Tillotama Shome, Mrunal Thakur, Kumud Mishra, Amruta Subhash and Angad Bedi. Four filmmakers have come together to direct four different stories. The directors are Sujoy Ghosh, R Balki, Amit Ravindernath Sharma and Konkona Sen Sharma.
In a recent interview with Film Companion, Tamannaah spoke about her relationship, and said, “I don’t think you can get attracted to someone just because they are your co-star. I have had so many co-stars. I think if one has to fall for someone, feel something for someone it’s definitely more personal, it’s nothing to do with what they do for a living, I mean that’s not the reason why this would happen.”
Describing Vijay as her ‘happy place’, she said that he is someone whom she looks up to, and that they ‘bonded very organically’. She added, “With high achieving women, we have this problem, that we think we have to work hard for everything. When something is so simple and you don’t have to walk on eggshells to just be yourself because I think in India we also have this that a woman has to change her entire life for someone. If you have to find a partner you might have to physically move or do so many things that serve that person’s understanding but I was like I have created a world for myself and here there’s a person who actually understood that world without me doing anything. He’s a person who I care about deeply and yeah, he’s my happy place.”
Lust Stories 2 will debut on Netflix on June 28. Tamannaah can currently be seen in the Prime Video series Jee Karda.
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