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‘He should have taken consent’: Biswajeet’s daughter on the kiss that left Rekha in tears | Bollywood News

‘He should have taken consent’: Biswajeet’s daughter on the kiss that left Rekha in tears | Bollywood News

Actor Pallavi Chatterjee has reacted to the controversial kissing scene involving her father, veteran actor Biswajeet, and Rekha during the filming of Anjana Safar. The incident was detailed in Yasser Usman’s biography Rekha: The Untold Story, which claimed that the then-15-year-old Rekha was kissed without prior knowledge during a shoot, leaving her distressed. Speaking to journalist Vickey Lalwani, Pallavi said she believes the episode would have been “traumatic for any young girl” and added that her father should have either refused to perform the scene or obtained Rekha’s consent beforehand. She, however, suggested that directors in that era sometimes withheld information from actors to capture spontaneous reactions on camera. “There were directors who would tell one actor about a scene but would not fully inform the other person because they wanted a particular reaction on camera. I feel that if an incident like this happened, where someone was kissing another person for several minutes in front of the entire unit, it could not have happened without the director’s approval. Perhaps the director had said, ‘This …