Samir Soni was comfortable with the gay kiss in Fashion
A gay kiss between actors Samir Soni and Anil Kumar has been dropped from filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar new film, Fashion.Bhandarkar cutt he scene before it went to the censor board but plans to restore it on DVD.He said: "What a beautifully-shot scene of intimacy it is between Samir and Anil. You forget their gender. They're just two people in love expressing their feelings.""I took it out before taking it to the censor board. I thought portraying a homosexual couple was bold enough. The kiss would have been too much. But now I'm planning to restore it on the DVD." Samir was not nervous for the scene. He said: "Anil was more nervous than I could ever be. I wasn't nervous or anxious at all. Why should I be? I think too much hoo-ha is made in our country about sexual orientation. Isn't there enough violence and unrest being created against minority groups on the basis of religion? Do we need to get all heated up about what two grown-up men do in privacy?"He added "I feel those who are homophobic would recoil from doing a gay role. But I'm extremely confident of my sexuality and had no qualms about playing gay. From my modelling days I've had gay friends who would discuss their boyfriends with me. So I'm very comfortable with homosexuality."