Rekha's forced kiss with Biswajeet was a planned publicity stunt

The controversial kissing scene between Rekha and Biswajeet from the 1969 film Anjana Safar has returned to the spotlight after Biswajeet's daughter, actress Pallavi Chatterjee, admitted in a recent interview that what happened to Rekha was "definitely wrong." Now, senior film journalist Jyothi Venkatesh also revisited the incident, recalling what he had heard about the shoot.