Director Sudipto Chattopadhyay wanted Bipasha to smoke for a vital sequence. However, Bipasha boldly refused. She was not in favour of the scene and if she smoked, it would`ve meant that she was promoting smoking. Sudipto even gave her the option of holding a cigarette, but she refused that as well. It was agreed upon to shoot the scene differently.
Bipasha confirmed the story by saying, “I don`t smoke and i don`t encourage smoking. Unless it`s absolutely essential to smoke for my role, I wouldn`t agree to do it.”
According to Sudipto it was a song sequence in a smokey atmosphere. He wanted to show smoke coming out from Bipasha`s mouth when she starts singing. Eventually a canister jar was placed in front of her which emitted smoke and framed it such that when she sings, it seems as if the smoke is coming out of her mouth.
