Jab Tak Hai Jaan's hot smooches: Why Shah Rukh kissed Katrina

The hot smooches of SRK's Jab Tak Hai Jaan were as much in news as the film itself. The intimate kissing scenes between Shah Rukh and Katrina were so much talked about because of two reasons. 

Firstly, there were reports that it had angered Salman(Katrina being his ex girlfriend and he himself being against such acts on screen) and secondly because SRK has always refrained from kissing his female leads.

SRK has done some sexually explicit scenes in the past, but he has always avoided kissing his heroines. But in Jab Tak Hai Jaan, there are a number of scenes when SRK plants a kiss on his girl, his plea is- story's demand.
On being questioned SRK admitted he was very uncomfortable about the smooches but Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra and Katrina convinced him.

"I had a couple of rules actually - that I won't ride a horse and I won't kiss. Both are cumbersome. I don't know how to do both on screen." 

"I will be very honest. Adi (Aditya Chopra), Yash ji and Katrina, and I say this with all humility and thankfulness to them, that they knew I was awkward, I had issues and I am a very easy actor to work with. They are like my family and they said, 'You don't have to do this' and then they got together and they forced me and then even paid me for it."
"So... when heroines say that 'I wore a bikini because the story demanded me to', I did it (the kiss) because the story demanded it. Believe me or don't believe it," said the 47-year-old actor, who has been in showbiz for over two decades.

Shah Rukh feels doing something as intimate as a kiss on screen, is mechanical."It is very mechanical with 100 people telling you what to do. It's very odd. I don't even do photoshoots with heroines if it is not for my film and that is also rude, but I don't want to waste anyone's time. I find it very awkward taking my shirt off and posing. I can do it in character for film," he said.
While Shah Rukh's kiss was being talked about so much, no one mentioned Katrina has she has been comfortably kissing her co-starts in most of her films. Why can't Sallu take some tips form her on how to shed inhibitions!