No smooching scene for Indraneil

Indraneil Sengupta turned down ���������Banshiwala��������� because the director had insisted on having two smooching scenes.
Anjan Das��������� film, ���������Banshiwala���������, is all set for release on November 19. The film has got a U/A certification and the reasons are the two smooching scenes between Shayan Munshi and Paoli. Incidentally, these two kisses are also the reason why Indraneil Sengupta didn���������t agree to doing this film.
If the director is to be believed, Indraneil had really wanted to do this film.���������He has done a very good job with ���������Bedeni���������. He had come home. A copy of ���������Banshiwala��������� was kept on my table. During the course of our conversation, I told him that I would be adapting this story. He requested me to lend him the copy so that he could read it. After reading the book, he said he���������d love to do the role provided I agree to chop those two scenes. His wife, Barkha, he said, wouldn���������t appreciate if he shot those scenes. But I couldn���������t oblige since these two scenes are quite important for the movie. Meanwhile, I had already begun my conversation with Shayan regarding this movie. So, Shayan came on board. However, ���������Banshiwala��������� isn���������t a movie on lust.���������
So, wasn���������t it difficult to have Indraneil do ���������Bedeni��������� with Rituparna Sengupta, considering that the film explores the emotion of lust? ���������I could have explored lust more aesthetically had Indraneil not have such reservations. Indraneil is a fine actor and very disciplined. If only he didn���������t have these reservations, Tollywood directors could have explored a lot more complicated emotions in films with him as the protagonist. If he is fine with Barkha doing an item number in ���������Dui Prithibi���������, I wonder why he has such reservations about shooting smooching scenes. But then, to each his own,��������� Das says.
Shayan, on his part, was very sporting about shooting such scenes. ���������He had no reservations. Lookwise too, Shayan fits the role of a London-returned guy well. Paoli had requested for a day���������s time to think about doing such scenes. When she learnt that the scenes were mandatory, she agreed to shoot them without creating any fuss,��������� the director signs off.
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