And I was quite sure even my audience was not very comfortable with me doing it on screen. 'I had already declined a couple of scripts purely on the basis of not being comfortable with the very physical scenes and the kissing because I'd never done that on screen and I just wasn't very comfortable with the idea. It was around the same time that the interest in the western world from Hollywood, or European cinema, English cinema - from the industry - there was a lot interest in me and the possibility of me working overseas. I was going to be part of a film that's just popcorn entertainment. 'When I did the movie Dhoom, I was very aware that.
'You're going to get me to talk about something that I haven't, in any of my interviews,' said the 39-year-old actress.
In an interview with Sir David Frost, the actress explained her motivation for agreeing to do the scene with Hrithik Roshan. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has spoken for the first time about the controversy surrounding her on-screen kiss in Dhoom 2.