Reports: India Court Issues Arrest Warrants for Richard Gere, Shilpa Shetty for Kiss

AP via FOX News ^ | April 26, 2007

[jdm]

NEW DELHI — A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," media reports said.

Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called "highly sexually erotic," saying the pair violated India's strict public obscenity laws.

Gere and Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity and have the tendency to corrupt the society," PTI quoted the judge as saying.

[jdm]

"Wait, wait, mister come back. I would like to ass you some questions about this incident."

[Enterprise]

Gerbils of the world unite and stop this madness!

[bmwcyle]

Richard has multiculturalism come home to him.

[sarasota]

I’m very surprised that Gere was so insensitive to this culture—and that this woman didn’t give him a heads-up (no pun intended).

[digger48]

[digger48]

Doesn’t look like she’s all that thrilled about being mauled by a faggot

[bmwcyle]

I’m not. Hollywood always thinks they are above it all.

[Enterprise]

Richard was there to begin filming of "A Pasha and a Gentleman."

[Enterprise]

A better view of her.

[jdm]

Oh my.

[digger48]

Definitely Kissable!

[Constitution Day]

Yummy.

[subterfuge]

Is Shilpa a guy? ‘Cause I can understand their, um...concern.

[dfwgator]

This looked like a “Hey, I’m Really Straight” photo-op like when Jacko kissed Lisa Marie at that awards show.

[subterfuge]

I didn’t know Gere swung that way.

[Enterprise]

Here's some of her friends.

Sushmita Sen

Mallika Sherawat

Sameera Reddy

Riya Sen

Bipasha Basu

[Enterprise]

In a salute to cultural diversity, I posted a few more.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Oh my goodness those are the most excellent females, yes yes yes!

[Enterprise]

Now we know why the English made India part of their empire.

[Clemenza]

The only good things about multiculturalism are the food and (John Belushi in Blue Brothers dinner scene accent) zeeee wimmeeen! What a boring place this would be if all I had to date were hamburger heifers who wanted me to take them to Applebees.