‘Gruelling’: Karisma Kapoor recalls shooting Raja Hindustani kiss with Aamir Khan for 3 days, says ‘I was like ye kab khatam hoga’

Karisma added, “It was freezing cold with storm, fans and cold water. We have worked in those circumstances from 7 am till 6 in the evening, shivering away between takes. So that was a different era of, I think, working in those kinds of circumstances.”

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In an earlier interview with Lehren Retro, Raja Hindustani director Dharmesh Darshan revealed that during Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor’s kissing scene, Karisma’s mother Babita Kapoor was present on the set on all three days. “She was very good on set, she was very excited. I could smell it on her. She was so sincere… She’d never done a kissing scene before. I told her what she would be wearing, the background wouldn’t be ‘sexy,'” he said.

The filmmaker added, “She said, ‘You don’t need to tell me so much’. Then I called Babita ji inside and narrated that sequence. Because Karisma was still very young, and mother can influence, no? And Lolo had a good image; she wasn’t a very noisy girl. Babita ji sat through the full three days of the shoot, and I didn’t send her away.”

Besides Aamir Khan and Karisma Kapoor, the film also featured Kunal Khemu, Johny Lever, and Archana Puran Singh.