A still from the song Lip to Lip.
Bollwood actor Imran Khan, who will soon be seen in Nikhil Advani's
Katti Batti, said that shooting the
Lip to Lipsong with Kangana Ranaut for the movie, left him "exhausted". He also described it as the "most physically demanding thing" he's ever done.
Lip to Lip, which is the third song in the film after
Sarfira and
Sau Aasoon, is touted to be the first song in India where stop motion technology has been used. Kangana and Imran have reportedly kissed each other for 24 hours over a period of three days in order to get the right frame for the song. (Also Read:
Kangana, Imran Kissed For 24 Hours in Katti Batti Song)
Imran also spoke about the special technology which was used in the song. "We have shot
Lip to Lip using stop motion animation, which is very time intensive because you have to get it right per pose, and filmmakers will take one single frame. When you move a little bit then another frame and it goes on. After they animate it, it looks like smooth motion," Imran told IANS.
"But it means that you have to hold that position, and suppose if there is a phone or a light coming in, then it will happen frame by frame. So for all of the kissing moments in this song, we had to start to kiss and they had to take frames one after another as a hundred things would move around us," added Imran.
The
Luck actor also said that the song is one of the most "physically demanding" things that he has ever done.
"It was very exhausting. It looks gorgeous, but it's one of the most physically demanding things that I have ever done, because holding the body in that position static through the day and not moving at all. At the end of every day, we felt like our back was about to break," said Imran.
Regarding the film, Imran said that
Katti Batti is not based on live-in relationships.
"It's just incidental in the story. The characters were living in together but it was actually before the film even begins. This boy and girl first meet in college. They start to date and fall in love and start to live together. They actually live together for five years and in those five years, you see the difficulty of their relationship as they start fighting and ultimately they break up," said Imran.
"All of this happens even before the film starts. So when the film begins, with all of this having happened in the past, what happens next is actually what
Katti Batti is about," he added.
Katti Batti is scheduled to release on September 18.