New Delhi, July 23 - From two flowers bobbing together to lip-locking, Hindi films have surely come of age. Actors are shedding inhibitions to spice up the silver screen and not too many people are raising their eyebrows.

Forthcoming movies 'Love Aaj Kal' and 'Kites' have the lead pairs sharing passionate kisses on screen, but they are just following the examples set by flicks like ''Hum Tum', 'Jab We Met', 'Dev D' and 'Kambakkht Ishq'.

While 'Love Aaj Kal' sees Saif Ali Khan kissing Deepika Padukone, Anurag Basu's 'Kites' has already stirred a controversy for its steamy smooches between Hrithik Roshan and Latino beauty Barbara Mori.

'Love Aaj Kal' director Imtiaz Ali, however, insists that despite the kissing scenes, his film is a complete family entertainer.

'Kisses included...nobody will feel inhibited watching 'Love Aaj Kal'. No one will hesitate walking into the film with his family. All that is potentially objectionable in the film in the strictest of sense has been taken care of,' Ali had told IANS.

The film, which has Saif playing a double role, releases July 31.

Similarly, 'Kites' producer Rakesh Roshan insists the sensuality in his film is 'not meant to titillate'. 'The scenes are well integrated into the screenplay with conviction, purity and honesty,' he added.

Said Hrithik: 'Why are we even talking about kissing? Is that such a big deal? Hasn't our cinema grown up? Yes, there are kissing scenes in the film, but nothing to make me squirm. In fact, I'd be more than happy and completely comfortable watching those kissing scenes with my wife, son and parents when the film is released.'

Ketan Mehta's much-awaited bilingual 'Rang Rasiya' has also been in the news for its kissing sequences and sensuous scenes between Randeep Hooda and Nandana Sen.

But the young brigade still has to break Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai's record -- the two gave the longest kissing scene in the 1933 movie 'Karma'. It was four minutes long and even Mallika Sherawat, who set a new record by doing 19 kissing scenes with Himanshu Malik in her debut film 'Khwaish', couldn't break it.

Considering the trend, the latest movies to have unabashed lip-locks are 'Kambakkht Ishq' and 'New York'.