Longest interval between screen kisses in Bollywood
- Who
- Unknown
- Where
- India
- When
- 1977
The earliest kiss in Indian cinema took place in 1929, in Prapancha Pash. Kissing was subsequently prohibited in Indian films, and was not seen again until 1977 in Raj Kapoor's Satyam Shivam Sundaram - a period of 48 years.
The historic embrace took place between Zeenat Aman and Shashi Kapoor.
The film was a musical melodrama about a man who falls in love with the compelling voice of an adivasi gitl and only learns on their wedding night that half of her face is disfigured by a burn.
Kissing was voluntarily renounced by Indian film producers on the grounds that Indians did not kiss in public and to see them doing so on screen was pandering to an alien custom.
After Independence, when producers decided there were sound commercial reasons for a little occidental decadence, they found themselves up against the stern morality of the censors.
The film was a musical melodrama about a man who falls in love with the compelling voice of an adivasi gitl and only learns on their wedding night that half of her face is disfigured by a burn.
Kissing was voluntarily renounced by Indian film producers on the grounds that Indians did not kiss in public and to see them doing so on screen was pandering to an alien custom.
After Independence, when producers decided there were sound commercial reasons for a little occidental decadence, they found themselves up against the stern morality of the censors.