Tamil actress Rekha's shocking revelation about the unplanned kiss by actor Kamal Haasan in filmmaker K. Balachander's 1986 film Punnagai Mannan has raised a storm on social media. Many netizens have said that the veteran superstar Kamal Haasan should apologise to the actress for the kiss that, she added, was filmed on her without her consent when she was just 16.

"I've said this a hundred times. They shot the scene without me knowing about it. People ask me the same question and I'm fed up of answering it," Rekha told The News Minute according to bollywoodlife.com, insisting Kamal Haasan and the late Tamil cinema doyen Balachander tricked her into doing the scene. She added that kiss helped the film in totality to bring out certain needed emotions.