Renowned Malayalam veteran actress Rekha has played several critically acclaimed roles in the 80s and 90s, along with the gorgeous actress who once worked alongside superstar Kamal Haasan in the 1986 romantic drama 'Punnagai Mannan', Recently it is revealed that Kamal Haasan kissed her in a scene in this film without her consent. At the same time, the video of the interview, in which he revealed the same, created a stir online. Also in the interview, Rekha revealed that Kamal Haasan and the late Tamil cinema director Balachander tricked her into doing the scene. "Listeners will not believe if I say that the scene was shot without my permission. With this, Balachander sir is not yet alive and only Kamal will be able to talk about it."
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This is the scene in which Kamal and I commit suicide atop a waterfall. While filming Sir (K Balachander) we had said that our eyes would be closed because the characters were committing suicide. "Hope you remember what I told you". He has been decided that I want to kiss in the next scene. And the same happened. Then we had to jump when he said 1, 2, 3 ... We kissed and jumped again. I told him that my father would create a problem ... but then the assistant director, Suresh Krishna Sahab, said: "Just thinking of it as a big king kissing a little child" recalled Rekha. He added, " He also told me that the scene would not be done to reveal vulgarity and it would be taken by the audience as a reflection of love.
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Simultaneously after the shoot, I told my mother that they cheated on me with a kiss. After the release of the film, I revealed it in several interviews, due to which Kamal and Sir were angry with me. At the moment, I was making this thing public, because it was done without my permission. Apart from this, Rekha, who was only 16 when she did the film after completing class 10, also talked about being told that the censor boards are not approvals of kisses. Along with that, he added that he would never have accepted to kiss if he was already aware of the couple. He also highlighted that Kiss helped the film in totality to bring out some essential emotions. She also said that neither Balachander nor Kamal Haasan apologized to her after filming the scene.
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