MUMBAI:

Shabana Azmi has done her first kiss in Reema Kagti’s Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd and says her children — Farhan and Zoya — are planning to exploit the scene fully.

“You know my kids have put the kiss in the trailer. Zoya and Farhan say they’re going to exploit me commercially. Thank you so much,” Shabana said.

Shabana’s boisterous laughter controls your thoughts.

“What’s a kiss with Boman? I’ve kissed Nandita Das in Fire. Watching me do a normal kiss, you’ll heave a sigh of relief. It’s a very innocent sweet, and non-controversial kiss... I had a ball doing Honeymoon Travels... My children are involved with it. I’ve a very small part.”

About her unusual pairing with Boman Irani, Shabana says, “Boman plays this Christian Goan guy. I play this Muslim woman. He plays a brash man. My character is more genteel.”

It was a great pleasure for Shabana to play this nondescript character, who emerges as a person in her own right. “This Goan guy, who’s her husband, wants to make her happy. He keeps reciting sher in wrong Urdu. Such a sweet tender relationship... The kiss comes in when he reaches his ancestral house to see it being dismantled. That’s when I move towards him. He kisses me right in the middle of the street. Will my audience be shocked? I think not! I think Boman was far more terrified than I was.”

Shabana describes her co-star Boman as an endlessly curious man.

“He’s such a movie buff. He knows every detail of every film. I’d just sit back and wonder what sort of a Parsi is this who knows everything about Hindi films. He speaks non-stop. He’d pretend all the time that I was scolding him. But Boman and I had a ball. All the young girls in the unit wanted to be around Boman, and the boys hovered around me. So we were both deeply flattered.”