MUMBAI MIRROR (June 13, 2019)

Anupam Kher and Archana Puran Singh, who entertained the audience with their chemistry as Mr Malhotra and Ms Braganza respectively in Karan Johar’s directorial debut Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, shared an anecdote about a kissing scene they were supposed to do in their 1989 film, Ladaai, which featured Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha and Dimple Kapadia as leads.

During Anupam’s recent turn on Kapil Sharma’s eponymous comedy show The Kapil Sharma Show, Archana recounted, “When we were shooting for Ladaai, Deepak (Shivdasani, director) planned a kissing sequence between me and Anupam. When I got to know this, I was nervous as I’d never done an on-screen kissing scene before. I called Deepak and informed him that I won’t be able to do it, but then I don’t know what made Deepak remove the sequence completely.”

The actress then went on to ask Anupam if he feared kissing her considering he was married to Kirron Kher? To this, Anupam responded: “I wasn’t fearing Kirron... but considering you weren’t comfortable doing so, I requested Deepak ji to remove it from the film.”