Thanks to uncle Bhatt, Emraan baba, is having a gala time in the Bollywood. Mallika or no Mallika, when it comes to tongue wrestling Hashmi always gets an ample opportunity in each and every Bhatt venture to display his oral prowess, courtesy Mahesh uncle.

In his latest film 'Tumsa Nahin Dekha', the wonder-boy locks his lips with Dia Mirza in public, who plays a stripper.

No wonder the kissing scene has set the tongues wagging in the industry but the former Miss Asia Pacific is hardly perturbed.

"The boy kisses the girl, the first time they meet and the kiss sets them going on a journey of love. It moves the movie forward. The scene was crucial to the film, Nahin to, I wouldn't have done it," she opines.

"Moreover, Emraan is very good in kissing," she adds smilingly.

She admits that it wasn't comfortable doing the scene in the full public view and she had to be cajoled a lot before she decided to do it.

According to her: "I was nervous and Emraan gave me a lot of grief! He teased me mercilessly because he had done this before in Murder. But he promised that it would not be sexual or intimate. It was not a full-blown kiss. He told me to clench my teeth and promised not to enter my mouth."

Dia who started her career in Bollywood with RHTDM is still pining for a hit and that perhaps explains her newfound admiration for Mallika Sherawat and her ilk.

Praising the sleaze breeze she says, "I would say hat's off to Mallika. She's one hell of a woman to be able to do it more than once in her films! It's not something I could have done!"

And her final take on the kiss: "I can't understand what the jhamela is all about. Don't we kiss in the real life?"