Kissing goddess from India

Aditi Rao Hydari is an Indian film actress. A classical bharatanatyam dancer, she made her acting debut with Sharada Ramanathan's acclaimed film Sringaram (2007) and rose to fame after her performance in Sudhir Mishra's 2011 film Yeh Saali Zindagi.

She played innocent and strong with panache in Yeh Saali Zindagi and will soon be on screen with Ranbir Kapoor in Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar. Aditi Rao Hydari believes kissing doesn’t require preparation and that positive thinking has always worked for her. Let’s find out more about the enigma:

1. How was your experience acting in Yeh Saali Zindagi different from Delhi-6?

With a film like Delhi-6 people see you on a certain path and they assume you are that. Yeh Saali Zindagi gave me the opportunity to break away from that. The ability to do a parallel lead.

2. How did you get the opportunity to work on YSZ?

Sudhir (Mishra) sir was on my wish list of directors to work with. I almost didn’t do this film as I wasn’t sure when the dates were. I had gone to shoot an ad. I called them the moment I got back but the auditions were over. Two days later they called and two hours later I was sitting in the producer’s office; it was lots of positive thinking on my part.

3. So who else is on your wish list of directors?

Vishal Bhardwaj, Dibakar Banerjee, Anurag Kashyap, Ayan Mukerji, Reema Kagti and that whole gang.

4. Did kissing Arunoday Singh (purportedly) 22 times in YSZ draw you to the movie?

Kissing Arunoday 22 times — it wasn’t even that much — didn’t draw me to the film. What I loved about Yeh Saali Zindagi was that the two lovers have this very raw physical love for each other. It’s like a little gem in the film. It’s innocent love. Very real. They don’t know how to catch up and take control of their lives but they still want to be together. It had lovely phases that they go through and that’s what I liked about it.

5. Alright so, is Arunoday a good kisser?

Honestly I haven’t kissed that many guys, but I think he’s a good kisser.

6. How do you prepare for kissing someone on film?

I think one doesn’t prepare for it. All of us are normal human beings and it’s the most natural thing to show love and affection. Playing a drug addict is different; it’s something you’d have to research. This was a natural thing. I’m so glad no one created hoo-ha over it. Arunoday was composed and dignified. Sudhir sir didn’t give too much bhashan (lecture). He just said you’re young, you know what to do! He’s with you throughout. He’ll hold your hand and take you through the journey but he’ll never push you into something. The set is chaotic but in his head he knows exactly what he wants. You never feel that his attention is divided.

7. We hear you’re in Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar alongside the talented Ranbir Kapoor. How’d that lovely opportunity come about?

I think everything with me happens by mistake. I was penned to meet Imtiaz for the part of the Kashmiri girl. I met him for that but he had already cast someone. He said he’d love to work with me: “You have a lot of tehzeeb (well-mannered, humble),” he told me. He meant it very sweetly. He told me there was another part (of a young journalist) in Rockstar but he didn’t want someone soft and delicate like me. That was it. A month and a half later, the person who was casting for him told him to meet me again and test me. I came in and did the audition. I actually read with Ranbir and I got it. Both the times I got the films, I read with the actors who are working on the film and that made a big difference. I’m not great at auditions but with an actor it makes a huge difference.

8. What’s the best compliment you got for your role in Yeh Saali Zindagi?

Whether it’s compliments or praise I usually move on without dwelling on it too long. But Irrfan Khan told me I have a very lovely aura and I am surrounded by positivity. He told me to stay that way, which was really sweet since he didn’t even know me.

9. There’s not much about you on the internet, tell us something about yourself…

I was kept away from watching Hindi films because the ones in the 80s and 90s weren’t really meant for kids. I learned Bharat Natyam as a child. I used to sing. I went to a boarding school where I learned dance, yoga and Kalaripayattu. I was an outdoorsy kid. Watching films wasn’t part of my daily routine and I’m glad because I learned a lot of things I wouldn’t have learned. In my house my parents shielded me for as long as they could, like no scary movies. I learned to be responsible for myself at boarding school.

10. So were they shocked with all the kissing scenes in YSZ then?

My nani (grandmother) saw the film and came out saying the film was fabulous. My mom was crying after seeing the love-making scene; she thought it was so beautiful. They’re an educated family and that makes a difference.

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How Kiss affects Relation?

You must remember this: A kiss isn't just a kiss. If it's bad, it can actually kill a budding relationship, a new survey says. Some 59% of men and 66% of women said they've had the hots for someone—until that first, deadly kiss, CNN reports. "I knew this girl I'll call Big Tongue," recalls one luckless dater. "She was very forceful with it, and I started choking."

"At the moment of the kiss, there's a very complicated exchange of information" that can indicate compatibility, says a study co-author. But while kisses can be bad for myriad reasons, they all "trigger the gag reflex," says the author of The Art of Kissing, who suggests the kissing-impaired can improve by varying their "speed, intensity, and style."

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Kiss up your facts

Fun Facts About . . .

Kissing

“Kiss” is from the Old English cyssan from the proto-Germanic kussijanan or kuss, which is probably based on the sound kissing can make. A woman in China partially lost her hearing after her boyfriend reportedly ruptured her eardrum with a passionate kiss. Apparently, the kiss reduced the pressure in the mouth, pulled the eardrum out, and caused the breakdown of the ear. The science of kissing is called philematology. The insulting slang “kiss my ass” dates back at least to 1705. Lips are 100 times more sensitive than the tips of the fingers. Not even genitals have as much sensitivity as lips. Most people tip their head to the right when they kiss Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss. Some scholars speculate this preference starts in the womb. On July 5-6, 2005 a couple in London locked lips for 31 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds, making it the longest kiss ever recorded. The most important muscle in kissing is the orbicularis oris, also known as the kissing muscle, which allows the lips to “pucker.” French kissing involves all 34 muscles in the face. A pucker kiss involves only two. The lips of both men and women resemble the lips of the vagina. The term “French kiss” came into the English language around 1923 as a slur on the French culture which was thought to be overly concerned with sex. In France, it’s called a tongue kiss or soul kiss because if done right, it feels as if two souls are merging. In fact, several ancient cultures thought that mouth-to-mouth kissing mingled two lovers’ souls. The Four Vedic Sanskrit texts (1500 B.C.) contain the the first mention of a kiss in writing. The Romans created three categories of kissing: (1) Osculum, a kiss on the cheek, (2) Basium, a kiss on the lips, and (3) Savolium, a deep kiss. Passionate kissing burns 6.4 calories a minute. A Hershey’s kiss contains 26 calories, which takes five minutes of walking–or about four minutes of kissing–to burn off. It is possible for a woman to reach an orgasm through kissing. Mechanically speaking, kissing is almost identical to suckling. Some scholars speculate that the way a person kisses may reflect whether he or she was breast fed or bottle fed. Scientists believe that kissing may be a way of exchanging body salts or sebum that form relationships with parents and lovers, just as it does some birds. During mating, some birds chew food, then kiss-feed it to a prospective mate. If a bird’s sebaceous glands are removed so there is no sebum, its mate flies off. Kissing is good for teeth. The anticipation of a kiss increases the flow of saliva to the mouth, giving the teeth a plaque-dispersing bath. A medieval manuscript warns Japanese men against deep kissing during the female orgasm because a woman might accidentally bite off part of her lover’s tongue. The Kama (desire) Sutra (type of verse) lists over 30 types of kisses, such as “fighting of the tongue.” According to one study, many men are more particular about which women they kissed than who they went to bed with, suggesting that kissing is somehow more about love than coitus is. Mothers who passed chewed solid food to their infants during weaning may have created the first kiss Kissing may have originated when mothers orally passed chewed solid food to their infants during weaning. Another theory suggests kissing evolved from prospective mates sniffing each others’ pheromones for biological compatibility. Scholars are unsure if kissing is a learned or instinctual behavior. In some cultures in Africa and Asia, kissing does not seem to be practiced. Common chimpanzees kiss with open mouths, but not with their tongues. Bonobos, the most intelligent of primates, do kiss with their tongues. Leper-kissing became fashionable among medieval ascetics and religious nobility during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It was deemed proof of humility. During the middle ages, witches' souls were supposed to be initiated into the rites of the Devil by a series of kisses, including kissing the Devil’s anus, which was a parody of kissing the Pope’s foot. Pliny asserts that kissing a donkey’s nostril will cure the common cold. Kissing at the conclusion of a wedding ceremony can be traced to ancient Roman tradition where a kiss was used to sign contract. The first on-screen kiss was shot in 1896 by the Edison Company. Titled The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, the film was 30 seconds long and consisted entirely of a man and a woman kissing close up. The first on-screen kiss between two members of the same sex was in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1922 Manslaughter. Under the Hays Code (1930-1968), people kissing in American films could no longer be horizontal; at least one had to be sitting or standing, not lying down. In addition, all on-screen married couples slept in twin beds...and if kissing on one of the beds occurred, at least one of the spouses had to have a foot on the floor. Alfred Hitchcocks’ creative attempt to circumvent Hollywood’s Hays Code led to one of the sexiest kisses in cinematic history Polls consistently list the kiss between Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant in the 1946 film Notorious as one of the sexiest kisses in cinematic history. Because the Hays Code allowed on-screen kisses to last only a few seconds, Alfred Hitchcock directed Bergman and Grant to repeatedly kiss briefly while Grant was answering a telephone call. The kiss seems to go on and on but was never longer than a few seconds. The film with the most kisses is Don Juan (1926) in which John Barrymore and Mary Astor share 127 kisses. The film with the longest kiss is Andy Warhol’s 1963 film Kiss. The 1961 film Splendor in the Grass, with Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, made history for containing Hollywood’s first French kiss. Early Christians kissed one another in highly specific settings that distinguished them from non-Christian population. The earliest Christian reference to the ritual kiss is at the end of I Thessalonians: “Greet one another with a holy kiss.” The Christian ritual kiss or “kiss of peace” was used during prayer, Eucharist, baptism, ordination, and in connection with greeting, funerals, monastic vows, and martyrdom. Kissing played an important role in ancient Greco-Roman culture and was seen as a sign of respect, thanks, reunion, and agreement, as well as as a rite of inclusion. Kisses were exchanged between peers, political leaders, teachers, and priests. Hence, the kiss of Judas (“Kiss of Death”) to betray Christ inverted the very point of kissing in this early Christian context. "Eskimo" kisses are loosely based on a traditional Inuit greeting called a "kunik" Although many men and women consider it childish, more than 95% of them occasionally like to rub noses while kissing. Often called an “Eskimo kiss” in Western culture, this form of kissing is based loosely on a traditional Inuit greeting called a “kunik.” In 1929, anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski visited the Trobriand Islands to observe their sexual customs. He found that two lovers will go through a several phases of sucking and biting in a variation of the French kiss that culminates in biting off each other’s eyelashes. In fact, in the South Pacific, short eyelashes are a status symbol. Diseases which can be transmitted through kissing include mononucleosis (“kissing disease”) and herpes. Contraction of HIV through kissing is extremely unlikely, though one woman was infected in 1997 when the woman and infected man both had gum disease. Transmission was likely through the man’s blood and not his salvia. Rodin’s famous statue The Kissdepicts doomed lovers in eternal anticipation of a kiss Rodin’s famous statue The Kiss was originally titledFrancesca da Rimini and depicts the thirteenth-century woman in Dante’s Inferno who falls in love with her husband’s younger brother Paolo. Their lips do not actually touch, hinting at their eventual doom. The kiss of life (breath of God) and the kiss of death (Judas’ kiss) are powerful literary and artistic symbols. Sixteenth century authors were especially likely to use them as sexual metaphors. Cunnilingus is a type of sexual kissing whereby a person stimulates the external female genital organs with the mouth or tongue. The word “cunnilingus” derives from the Latin cunnus (vulva, vagina) and lingua (tongue) or lingere (to lick up). The mouth is full of bacteria. When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria. “X”s at the end of a correspondence letter represent the contact of the lips during a kiss.

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