Back in 2004, when paparazzi culture and tabloids were gaining popularity, Shahid Kapoor found himself in the middle of a major controversy. A picture of the actor and his then-girlfriend sharing a kiss at a Mumbai nightclub called Rain had gotten published in Mid-day. The photo created a storm in tinsel town.

Talking about how he felt after the incident, during our print and podcast series Sit With Hitlist, the actor said, "I was destroyed at that time. I was just a 24-year-old kid and I felt my privacy had been invaded and I could do nothing to protect it. I was a mess, I was like, yeh kya ho gaya and what is going on and of course it affects you a lot. At that age especially, because you don’t even know exactly your own feelings and then you are figuring out, how to be with a girl and you are dating you know all that is going on and you are actors in different places and all that is happening and in the middle this happens..."