Kissing scenes in Hindi Bollywood films have always been a thing of intense debate.

I mean, be it flowers brushing against each other in film, actors and actresses cupping their mouths while pretending to kiss on screen or the camera showing the back of the actor fooling audiences, Hindi movies have tried everything in their power to not show explicit kissing scenes.

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However, things have certainly changed in the last few years, and no longer do we sweat at the idea of maybe witnessing a kissing scene, as it has become just too common.

The boom of Netflix, Prime Video, and other OTT platforms bringing worldly shows and movies to India has been one of the reasons why we are now okay with explicit *** scenes probably.

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Now, slowly and steadily, Bollywood, too, has become adept at including *** scenes and kissing scenes in movies without being scared that The 'Censorship Ka Mandir' will create a huge problem for them.

Having said that, there is one steamy Bollywood kissing scene that really raised the stakes!

I mean, it was apparently even too hot for the director itself.

We're talking about the intense kissing scene between Bollywood actors Katrina Kaif and Hrithik Roshan in Zoya Akhtar's 2011 film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

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In the scene, Katrina's character rides a motorcycle to chase Hrithik's character somewhere in the middle of Spain before going on to kiss him passionately.

However, as per a report by Bollywood Hungama, the kiss was way too long for the film.

According to the report, the kissing scene was actually a three-minute-long scene and the makers of the film, including director Zoya, were left wondering whether they should keep the scene that long or cut it.

After much consideration, Zoya took the decision to edit it in order to shorten the screen time.

The movie, all in all, was a very good coming-of-age film and we doubt audiences would have been troubled by watching that long a kissing scene.

Anyway, I don't think Hrithik or Katrina, who is going to reportedly tie the knot with Vicky Kaushal in a grand wedding, lost any sleep over the shortened scene.

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