I’m Just An Actor…: When Aishwarya Rai Opened Up On Getting Legal Notices For Her Steamy Kisses In Dhoom 2

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the iconic Bollywood actress known for her timeless beauty and versatile acting prowess, once grabbed the limelight for on-screen kisses with Hrithik Roshan in their film Dhoom 2.

The 2006 film, Dhoom 2, starred Aishwarya Rai Bachchan alongside Hrithik Roshan and she left audiences spellbound with her performance. However, it was her steamy kissing scenes with Hrithik that captured several eyeballs and was even criticized by a section of society.

During an interview with Dailymail, Aishwarya addressed the controversy around her first-ever on-screen kiss with Hrithik. She also revealed that she got legal notices from some people who believed that her portrayal in the film clashed with her image as a role model for young women.

She said, "I did it once prominently in the movie Dhoom and it was so topical, and you'll be surprised, I mean I actually got a couple of notices, legal notices, from some people in the country turning around and saying 'You are iconic, you're an example to our girls you have led your life in such an exemplary manner, they're not comfortable with you doing this on screen so why did you?"

Aishwarya also confessed that she had never been comfortable with intimate scenes in movies. She had even declined scripts featuring such scenes in the past. However, she decided to give it a shot in Dhoom 2, even though she was aware of the potential backlash from her fans.

She further explained, "I had never done that on screen, and I just wasn't very comfortable with the idea. And I was quite sure even my audience was not very comfortable with me doing it on-screen. I was actually quite convinced about it, but I still said 'Okay, if I have to go down this path let me first do it in our cinema, in an Indian piece of cinema, and let me see if all my doubts are true', and they were. And I was like wow, I'm just an actor, doing my job, and here I am being asked to offer an explanation for a couple of seconds in a two, three-hour piece of cinema."

Meanwhile, on the professional front, Aishwarya was last seen in Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan: I and II.