Shabana Azmi Birthday Special: Senior Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi is celebrating her birthday today. Shabana Azmi, who is 74 years old, is celebrating her birthday in New York this time. Shabana Azmi, who is known for many hit films and her different acting, had to face a big controversy about 28 years ago.
In a film called Fire, she kissed the other actress of the film Nandita Das, which created a lot of uproar. At that time, there was even a demand to ban the film. The second time she kissed her co-actor Dharmendra was in the recent film Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani. At this age, Shabana Azmi came into the news for the second time for a kissing scene. In her clarification, Shabana Azmi said that I kissed Nandita in Fire, I hope people would have found it easier to watch it.
Why was there a ruckus about kiss and fire first?
Deepa Mehta made the film Fire in 1996. This film showed a same-sex relationship. Shabana Azmi played the role of Radha in the film who was in love with Sita, i.e. Nandita Das. Both of them were shown kissing and romancing in the film. This can be called the country’s first lesbian film which was made by Deepa Mehta.
In Mumbai, parties like Shiv Sena created a lot of ruckus against the film and called it against Indian culture. On the opening day itself, many cinema halls were vandalized after which the film was even banned. Later, many cuts were made in the film and the names of the characters were also changed.