Actor RICHARD GERE and Bollywood beauty SHILPA SHETTY are facing legal action in India after being accused of committing "an obscene act" last weekend (15Apr07).
The Pretty Woman star swept the popular Bollywood actress into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event last weekend (15Apr07), with angry crowds burning effigies of Gere for going too far in a country where such public displays of affection are largely taboo.
Three lawyers in India have now filed complaints against their amorous actions, and Shetty, along with several private television channels, face two further charges for showing videos of the kiss after legal papers were filed in Ghaziabad.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Reena Chaudhry is expected to hear the complaints today (18Apr07).
Shetty, who publicly defended Gere yesterday (17Apr07), says she is paying a price for being an international celebrity.
Her spokesperson says, "The media should concentrate on the promotion of the cause of AIDS awareness rather than making an issue out of kisses."
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Now I know for sure that India is still a backward thinking country! To make such a big fuss out of such an unerotic kiss then after the fact try to make it some kind of crime is the most immoral thing of all.
Whose decency do the judges they are actually protecting? I suspect no one's! Even a non-legal person can see that such an action will fail in court because the intention to be obscene was not even there.
Even the "victim" Shilpa Shetty herself is bewildered what all the fuss is about!
Regardless of your opinions on backward vs forward thinking, the standards that an action must meet to be obscene or your own moral limits, it should be noted that the law of the land prohibits the behavior displayed by Shetty and Gere.
While I agree that the law needs a couple of revisions, it is still the law - and the courts of the nation must uphold it.
thats another case of "fake" attitude of the society...
come one thats a big deal???
if that was really true India would not have so many people with AIDS...
come on if they where that sensitive to a kiss ...not even in mouth...
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