Sonam Kapoor won’t kiss her Mausam co-star Shahid Kapoor and was shocked when she was asked to do so at the last minute, during the Scotland schedule.

It took her completely unaware as there had been no talk of any kissing scene when she signed on. She was never told that there would be a liplock with Shahid. No mention of it was made even during the detailed script narrations.

Says a unit source, “Sonam was taken aback when the director (and co-star Shahid’s dad Pankaj) told her about it. She flatly refused.”

There was high drama on the sets with Pankaj frantically calling Sonam’s dad Anil in desperation to save the situation. But the actress was adamant.

Adds the source, “It was at Shahid’s behest that a kissing scene was created. He put forth the idea to his father who complied with his request. Shahid feels that like Aamir Khan he, too, should kiss all his heroines. He felt it would add more passion to the scene.”

Sonam maintains, “There was no kissing scene in Mausam. It’s complete fabrication that I refused to do such a scene.”

But the source says, “When Sonam realised that it was her hero’s demand, she became even more adamant about not doing the kiss and was in no mood to listen to anyone on the subject.”

Incidentally, Sonam kisses Abhay Deol in her home production Aisha which releases this week. Shahid has locked lips with Kareena Kapoor (Jab We MetKaminey) and Anushka Sharma (Badmaash Company).

It is obvious that Anushka Sharma would develop cold feet if asked to do a kissing scene for the first time on screen. But what happened to Shahid? Why was he feeling awkward? Oh! how can you forget his kissing experience both on and off screen?! (wink wink)

Also, the boy had no problems doing a lip lock with Priyanka in Kaminey. Well, my little birdie informed that things were going little out of hands on the sets of Badmaash Company. Director Parmeet Sethi was not really happy with the way Shahid and Anushka were doing the kissing scene.

But what happened next almost created chaos on the sets. Just after the take, both Shahid and Anushka disappeared and worst, they were not even answering their cell phones. We understand it is kind of weird to rehearse akissing scene in front of the entire crew and the crew thought they might have chosen to rehearse privately. When they returned after two hours, they said they had just gone to a bookstore nearby. The Beginners Guide to Kissing may be that’s the book they went to find.

Although the incident left Sethi furious, he was a happy man when the two did a perfect lip lock in the next shot.

An MMS showing Shahid Kapur and Kareena Kapoor locking lips three years ago made headlines for months. But what happened afterwards? How exactly did Bebo become Saif’s girl and why did she snub his sister Soha in public? Coming soon to a theatre near you is The Secret life of Karina (that’s how the filmmaker spells it to avoid legal hassles with the actress), a B-grade film that claims to have answers to all these questions.

The film has an alleged budget of Rs 20 crores and is being produced by Spectra Multimedia Films, a production house known for making regional movies. “The film is inspired by the life of Shahid Kapur, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan,” explains Flynn Remedios, Spectra’s executive producer. “The film will be based mostly on media reports. It’ll show the underbelly of Bollywood. We are not cooking up anything. These stories were published. We will be showing the whole incident of the Shahid-Kareena smooch and even the one when Kareena snubbed Saif’s sister Soha Ali Khan at an event,” he says.

Believe it or not, the pot boiler will also draw some instances from the infamous real life of Bollywood’s bad boy Salman Khan. The lead protagonist in the movie, cleverly named Saifee, is supposedly a mixture of Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan’s personalities.

Remedios says, “Saifee’s character will exhibit traces of Salman’s ‘violent’ love stories with his ex girlfriends, notably Somi Ali and Aishwarya Rai.”

He explains that the film is set to go on the floors next month as the star cast is yet to be finalised.

Shradha Sharma, the actress initially chosen to play the lead role of Karina, has since declined the offer. “I wasn’t comfortable playing this character as I do not want to offend Kareena Kapoor. There was a scene in which Shaheed [the screen name for the actor playing Shahid Kapur’s role] cuts his wrists for the actress and I found all this very uncomfortable,” says Sharma.

When asked to react, Salman’s spokesperson Alok Mathur said that if the production house is openly claiming that the character is that of Salman, “they will get into real trouble”.

“They are just out to get publicity. They can’t get the real Salman, toh Salman ke naam ka faayda uthaaenge. Such films always flop,” said Mathur.

Responding to the matter, Shahid Kapur’s spokesperson said, “Shahid doesn’t know about such a film and is not going to bother. It is a B-grade film and these people are clearly doing it for publicity.”

Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan were not available for comment.