Box: Ramkamal Mukherjee, Film Director:
I read about this article on Hollywood’s intimacy supervisor a few weeks before the shoot of my Hindi film Season’s Greetings. Celina Jaitly my leading lady called me and discussed at length about how we can get something similar done in our film set. Thereafter I had few rounds of meeting with my producers and we decided to have someone senior (female) as Intimacy Supervisor on board for scenes that we will shoot with Celina and Azhar Khan. The scenes are a crucial part of the narrative establishing the intimacy and issues in their relationship. We are showing them as live-in partners. And what do young couples do when they are in a live-in relationship? I don’t want to show sunflowers and honey bees implicating sex between two adults. I’d rather make films for kids, if I have to be that restricted as a creative person. Manisha Basu as intimacy supervisor worked brilliantly and she helped us in executing the required scene keeping the comfort of leading actors in mind.
