Aishwarya speaks up about the never-ending stories about intimate scenes on screen!

Much uproar was generated when the viewers saw Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in a bold avatar in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. The actress was seen doing some steamy scenes with her co-star Ranbir Kapoor which grabbed many attentions. While rumors and speculations were floating around that the actress' family - Bachchans - weren't content with her bold side, Aishwarya has finally come out and spoke about the never-ending stories doing the rounds. 

In a chat with a newspaper, Aishwarya talked about her choices of doing an intimate scene or kissing on screen. "No, I think… in that I'm referring to the fact that when I did Dhoom 2, um, I remember I did that just around the time there was also the talk of possibly working in the West, and um, I was declining some wonderful work in the West because I personally also wasn't comfortable with the idea of intimacy on celluloid, but I keep referring to everything as, I think to the audience, everything is relative to how much they are exposed to. So when there's this huge influx of (kissing scenes) they've seen so much, that I think somehow (sic) now the audience has also become, pretty uh, they've... they've gotten used to all of this visually. Uh, but at the time, I said okay let me first do, let me kind of maybe explore that turf a little bit, in an Indian movie, and so Dhoom was where you know I kind of explored the area, and um..."

Was she surprised by the reactions to the Ae Dil Hai Mushkil promos? "No, I mean the response of the audience and critics and all was obviously I mean there, you saw the results in the movie itself, people kind of loved the movie and all of that, but uh... there was some kind of, there was a little bit of uproar that Yashji had shared with us, which at the time was surprising, but it was topical about, (sic) there's just this immense, but it's weird... it came from a  place of great love... and towards me, I mean it's almost like people felt I belonged to everybody, and it was from that protective, possessive love, that there was a bit of chatter and talk around, and a bit of a reaction, so what I mean is... it's all relative, when you kind of see with the times, but here we are," retorted Mrs.Bachchan.