After saying she was ‘uncomfortable’ with Lipstick producer’s presence during a sex scene, Aahana clarifies stance
MID-DAY (May 16, 2019)

Aahana Kumra says she was “uncomfortable” with a remark made by producer Prakash Jha during the shooting of Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017), but the comment was on a scene and not on her. Kumra says Jha made her uncomfortable while filming an intimate scene in the Alankrita Shrivastava-directed film. It was the first time that the actor, 34, was shooting such a scene. She said the producer passed a remark during the filming of the scene.

Shedding light on it, she says, “Alankrita made sure that all the intimate scenes were shot in a closed set with few people around. Prakash Jha happened to drop by while I was shooting with co-star Vikrant Massey. Since I had never shot an intimate scene before that, it was difficult to get in the right zone. Since he is also a director, he had a suggestion regarding the scene, but I wanted to hear it from Alankrita. He was on the set for a while, and after he left, we continued to shoot and also implemented his suggestion.”

Kumra felt a recent comment made on the incident by her was blown out of proportion. “Prakash Jha has been extremely respectful of all of us actors at every time that we have met him. It’s not right to drag his name unnecessarily. The remark was not [directed at] me. It was regarding the scene purely,” she said in an interview.

Asked about what the remark was, the actor said, “ I am not comfortable sharing that.”