Kissing in Hindi-Urdu cinema - Revision history

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‎The 1990s

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‎1944: Romancing with everything but the kiss

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 Subhash K. Jha
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-[[Salman Khan, film actor]] (no.1 since 2013) and [[Shah Rukh Khan]] (no.1 for the almost two decades before that) reached the top partly by being the favourites of family audiences. They have never kissed onscreen. [[Amitabh Bacnchan]] (no.1 before SRK) had one kiss, in Black (2005), though.
+[[Salman Khan, film actor]] (no.1 since 2013) and [[Shah Rukh Khan]] (no.1 for the almost two decades before that) reached the top partly by being the favourites of family audiences. They have never kissed onscreen. [[Amitabh Bachchan]] (no.1 before SRK) had one kiss, in Black (2005), though.
 =See also=

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 In Julie , Neha Dhupia too got boldly beautiful with co-stars Yash Tonk and Sanjay Kapoor. In her new release Sheesha, Neha goes all out with Sonu Sood. The French kisses are so French they make Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman in Satyam Shivam Sundaram look like a priest and a nun.
-After decades of repression the on-screen kiss has reached a saturation point within two years, thanks to the excessive zeal displayed in films like Murder, Julie, Hawas and Sheesha.
+After decades of repression the on-screen kiss has reached a saturation point within two years, thanks to the excessive zeal displayed in films like Murder, Julie, Hawas and Sheesha [all of them being B and C films].
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 ==1944: Romancing with everything but the kiss==
-Beverley Nichols, '' Verdict on India ''  (1944) [http://8ate.blogspot.in/2012/04/hindu-hollywood-1944.html 8ate] wrote in 1944: It was late in the afternoon when we returned to the studio.
+''Beverley Nichols, ''' Verdict on India '''  (1944) [http://8ate.blogspot.in/2012/04/hindu-hollywood-1944.html 8ate] wrote in 1944:''
 A love scene was in progress. At least, it appeared to be a love scene, but somehow it never seemed to get going.

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 '''This page is under construction''' It might have some references to non-Hindi cinema. If material grows, there might be separate pages on Kissing in each non-Hindi cinema
 =The 1920s=
-[[File: Karma.jpg| Karma (1933) featured one of India’s early onscreen kisses: legitimised only somewhat by the fact that heroine Devika Rani was kissing her real life husband, actor Himanshu Rai. At four minutes it probably remains the longest kissing scene in the history of Indian cinema. |frame|500px]]
+[[File: Karma.jpg| Karma (English language/ 1933) featured one of India’s early onscreen kisses: legitimised only somewhat by the fact that heroine Devika Rani was kissing her real life husband, actor- producer Himansu Rai. At four minutes it probably remains the longest kissing scene in the history of Indian cinema. |frame|500px]]
 [[File: Sangam kiss.png| Sangam (1964): a European couple kisses in Paris |frame|500px]]
 [[File: Biswajeet kiss.jpg| |frame|500px]]

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 [[File: khurram selima shiraz0.png| Prince Khurram (Charu Roy) chats up Selima (Enakshi Rama Rau) and gets her emotional in Franz Osten’s silent film ''Shiraz '' (1928)|frame|500px]]
 [[File: khurram selima shiraz.png| Selima (Enakshi Rama Rau) lets Prince Khurram (Charu Roy) kiss her, though she has a childhood sweetheart, the eponymous Shiraz. Selima later becomes Mumtaz Mahal and Khurram turns into Shah Jehan. From Franz Osten’s silent film ''Shiraz '' (1928)|frame|500px]]
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 [[File: Heer Ranjha, Kiss, 1929.jpg| D.Billimoria and Sulochana (aka Ruby Meyers) in '' Heer Ranjha (@ Beauty of Punjab @ Hoor e Punjab) ''  (1929), produced by Imperial Film of Bombay |frame|500px]]
 [[File: Zubeida in Zarina.jpg|Zubeida in '' Zarina '' (1932): Indpaedia has not been able to get hold of the kissing scene from the film, but this attire was considered hot at the time. |frame|500px]]
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		+	[[File: khurram selima shiraz0.png\| Prince Khurram (Charu Roy) chats up Selima (Enakshi Rama Rau) and gets her emotional in Franz Osten’s silent film ''Shiraz '' (1928)\|frame\|500px]]
		+	[[File: khurram selima shiraz0.png\| Selima (Enakshi Rama Rau) lets Prince Khurram (Charu Roy) kiss her, though she has a childhood sweetheart, the eponymous Shiraz. Selima later becomes Mumtaz Mahal. From Franz Osten’s silent film ''Shiraz '' (1928)\|frame\|500px]]
	[[File: A Throw of Dice1.png\|Seeta Devi (which was the screen name of Renee Smith) and Charu Roy in '' A Throw of Dice '' (1929), a silent film\|frame\|500px]]		[[File: A Throw of Dice1.png\|Seeta Devi (which was the screen name of Renee Smith) and Charu Roy in '' A Throw of Dice '' (1929), a silent film\|frame\|500px]]
	[[File: Heer Ranjha, Kiss, 1929.jpg\| D.Billimoria and Sulochana (aka Ruby Meyers) in '' Heer Ranjha (@ Beauty of Punjab @ Hoor e Punjab) '' (1929), produced by Imperial Film of Bombay \|frame\|500px]]		[[File: Heer Ranjha, Kiss, 1929.jpg\| D.Billimoria and Sulochana (aka Ruby Meyers) in '' Heer Ranjha (@ Beauty of Punjab @ Hoor e Punjab) '' (1929), produced by Imperial Film of Bombay \|frame\|500px]]

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 Indpaedia has reproduced on this page a picture of Rishi Kapoor kissing Dimple Kapadia in Raj Kapoor's ''Bobby'' (1973)
-Then the censors not only exempted kisses but also breast-exposure never seen before in Indian films (or after, til Kapoor's own Ram Teri Ganga Maili/ 1985) for Kapoor's '' Satyam Shivam Sundaram'' (1978).
+Then the censors not only exempted kisses but also breast-exposure never seen before in Indian films (or after, till Kapoor's own Ram Teri Ganga Maili/ 1985) for Kapoor's '' Satyam Shivam Sundaram'' (1978).
 If kissing was banned in Indian cinema, why the exception for Kapoor? The Rekha-Biswajeet kiss (picture on this page) never made it to the screen.

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 Sangam (1964) featured a kiss between a European couple in Paris, as Kapoor and Vyjantimala watched. This was the first kiss in an Indian film after kisses were censored out in the 1930s.
-Mera Naam Joker (1969) had Raj Kapoor kissing Ksenia Ryabinkina. If kissing was banned in Indian cinema, why the exception for Kapoor? The Rekha-Biswajeet kiss (see below) never made it to the screen.
+Mera Naam Joker (1969) had Raj Kapoor kissing Ksenia Ryabinkina.
 ==1969: GD Khosla, Rekha, Biswajeet…==
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