during his recent visit to the bombay times office emraan hashmi impressed us with his disarming honesty as he spoke about raja natwarlal his wifes reaction to his films and his bollywood journey of course since its emraan questions about kissing scenes abounded and he even joked about writing a book on the subject excerptswith raja natwarlal you have gone back to your comfort zone yes it has been a yearandahalf devoid of what ive been known for weve packed all of it in this film its making up for lost time and lost kisses smiles i call my cinema more parallel mainstream it has got a great story and is emotionally charged raja natwarlal is a family film with kissesyou had earlier stated that you had almost learnt this films script by heart are you this involved in every film i put in this much effort into every film like shanghai required a month of theatre workshops to break the mould for me a film like raja natwarlal is in another zone its similar to my other films in some ways because it is in the grey zone and is about a cool urban character but i had to work hard to get the swagger right and bring something new while doing the scamster act to play the street guy convincingly i had to learn a few things like teen pattiread emraan hashmi i used to dance at shows earlier but then i evolvedyour costar humaima malick said you are very good at romance how do you react to that compliment and what did your wife have to say about it my wife has not read that so i dont know how she would react im not a romantic at heart im not into flowers and candlelight dinners im into other freaky stuff when humaima said that she obviously meant onscreen because the relationship between these two characters raja and nazia has come out well she was nervous when she met me for the first time at home for narration i purposely kept a distance and pretended to be reserved so that she doesnt think ill pounce on her and start kissing her she felt i was arrogant but after four tofive days of shoot it was goodyour son ayan has apparently not seen any of your films will raja natwarlal be the first yeah hell see it well have to shut his eyes during the kissing sceneshow old were you when you saw a kissing scene for the first time i must have been seven or eight years old it used to get awkward for my family when something like that would pop up on the screen they used to either fast forward it or throw me out of the roomyou started the kissing trend in bollywood so would you take the credit for sensitising the industry and making kissing commonplace yes i played a big part in it ive corrupted the youth audience and bollywood erotic thrillers