Actor Emraan Hashmi, who has earned the nickname “serial kisser” for his on-screen kisses, says his wife Parveen Shahani still sulks about such scenes and he has to buy her a bag for every movie he does.
“She still sulks. She doesn’t hit me as hard now, earlier it used to be with a bag, now it’s just with the hand. So she has kind of [calmed] down over the years,” Hashmi said at the launch of his book, The Kiss of Life.
“I always buy her bags for every film. She has got a cupboard full of bags. There’s one cupboard dedicated to bags,” he added.
Hashmi started his career with films that contained numerous kissing scenes such as Murder, Zeher and Aashiq Banaya Apne.
When films such as Shanghai, where he didn’t have a kissing scene, flopped, it was reported that kisses were lucky for his films. When asked about it, he said: “Thankfully some films where I have not kissed have also flopped and some where I’ve kissed have also flopped.”
When asked to write a book as a love guru, he said: “I got rejected three times, so that’s the love guru for you. I think I’d make a disastrous book... I’ll think about it, I’ll actually give it a thought.”
