Don’t come too close, Prachi Desai tells Tusshar Kapoor

Tusshar Kapoor says Prachi Desai, who stars
opposite him in “Life Partner”, was not comfortable doing intimate
scenes with him and was too much into the “don’t touch me” mode. She is
just a 20-year-old girl yaar and a shy one at that,” Tusshar said. “What
could I have done other than wait for the passage of time? I tried
talking to her and get into frequent chats. She was a lot into ‘Don’t
touch me’ and ‘Don’t get too close to me’ mode. “Even though she may not
have said so all the time, I could make out that she was uncomfortable.
I reasoned with her that though off camera she could be the way she
wants, once the camera is rolling, there is nothing wrong if we get cosy,”
he added.

Tusshar plays Prachi’s husband in the movie
so it was near impossible for them to not have any intimate scenes.
Ultimately director Rumi Jaffrey suggested that Tusshar to establish a
friendship with her off the camera.“This was during our very first
schedule and a honeymoon sequence had to be shot. Looking at Prachi’s
discomfort, Rumi sir asked us to be at least friends off the camera as
well. He made us have some dinners together so that we could open up
further with each other,” Tusshar said. A crew member said on condition
of anonymity: “For Tusshar, it was a precarious situation since he
hadn’t faced such situation before. However, in case of Prachi, he had
to be extra cautious in front of the camera.

This comes as a surprise considering Prachi,
who made her big screen debut as Farhan Akhtar’s wife in “Rock On!”, is
quite close to his sister Ekta Kapoor and a regular visitor in their
household.Since his sister knows Prachi so well, isn’t it natural that
she shared a good relationship with him as well? “This wasn’t really the
case”, said Tusshar, “She did come to our house earlier as well but we
didn’t interact much. We seldom got into any conversations. I had to
change my approach though once we started working together.”

Did Tusshar’s words work for Prachi? Well, that would be there for
all to see once “Life Partner” releases in June or July. Produced by
Abbas-Mustan, it also stars Govinda, Fardeen Khan and Genelia D’Souza.