When Biswajit, 32, defended forcibly kissing 15-year-old Rekha on set, laughed it off when told she was left in tears | Bollywood
May 23, 2025 12:05 PM IST Biswajit and Rekha worked together for the only time in a film titled Anjana Safar (later released as Do Shikari). It was meant to be Rekha’s debut. In a day and age where intimacy coordinators are slowly becoming the norm on film sets and boundaries are respected more often than not, ‘forcing’ an underage actor into an intimate scene with a grown-up man would be a massive scandal, and rightly so. But alas, the 60s were different times. And due to the lack of agency most women had on Hindi film sets, many beloved stars would get away with a lot of transgressions that would get the average Joe reprimanded if not jailed. One such incident was when Biswajit, then 32, forcibly kissed his 15-year-old co-star Rekha and later laughed it off after being called out for it. Biswajit was 32 and Rekha 15 when they worked together in a film titled Anjana Safar. Why Biswajit kissed Rekha Biswajit started his career in Bangla cinema in 1960 and moved …
