Posted on 04/26/2007 7:14:41 PM PDT by alcenoo
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.
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Oh man, I just watched the video. Gere is such a dirtbag.
I saw this incident on a local radio station and it was pretty bad. gere looked like he was sloppy drunk and couldn’t keep his hands off the actress who was making introductions for the audience. You could see from the audience reaction they were not happy. Too bad the didn’t lynch the bastard right there.
I think so too, but...why do the women always seem to sing 2 octaves above normal? Man, that ruins the song for me. But in general, some of their stuff is not too bad. It's strange about the kissing thing when some of the dancing in the videos is so erotic.
As for the latter point, I think that most of their films are directed toward suggestion rather than graphic depiction of certain actions. I have noticed that violence is not shown in graphic detail just as sexuality is not depicted in explicit detail. Personally, I find Indian movies to be a good break from the usual Hollywood drek.
I dunno, does it rival this scene with Ben Affleck practically porking his interviewer ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMq6xDHBKwQ
This is the kiss that prompted Joe Rivers (aka Geraldo Rivera) to quip “That’s the most flamboyent I’ve ever seen Gere behave in public” - LOL......
I heard some of the oddest music ever at an Indian takeout place a few years ago. The TV was tuned to an Indian MTV type channel and the music video was a blend of gansta rap and the big group dance number with the traditional trilling and syncopated hand and head movements one associates with Bollywood productions. Weird. Food was good tho’, lamb biryanis, chapatis, etc.
If that will not make you go straight, you "ain't never gonna" be straight.
You need new glasses. She is is drop dead beautiful, all of her.
The Kiss
“The awful kiss”
Why that dirty old man!
LOL! Seriously, where do you find this stuff?!
Pretty funny. Mr. Tibet doesn’t have a clue what’s appropriate in India.
It was an urban myth. The first I heard of this story was one of Darryl Wayne a news reader in Jax, FL (1985). The story was that a gerbil had to be removed from his butt. Wayne left the station shortly after the rumor spread.
A few years later (1991) a newscaster in Phila. PA (Jerry Penacoli) had similar rumors told about him. Now the target has shifted to Gere...
Richard Gere’s arrest warrant outrages legal experts
JAIPUR/NEW DELHI: A Jaipur additional chief judicial magistrate on Thursday ordered the arrest of Hollywood actor Richard Gere for landing a peck on the cheeks of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, triggering an outrage among the country’s top legal experts who called it a “cheap publicity stunt” that bordered on “judicial indecency”.
The magistrate, Dinesh Gupta, reacting to a private complaint filed by advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari, watched a CD of an AIDS awareness function in Delhi at which Gere hugged and gave Shilpa a peck, as shown by a TV channel, to pronounce that the act was “sexually erotic” and “indecent”.
Former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee, who is one of the most respected legal luminaries of the country, took little time to describe Gupta’s ruling as reminiscent of the “Taliban moral police”.
Finding flaws in Gupta’s ruling, other top legal experts too called it yet another instance of “hounding orders on frivolous complaints”. They said the Indian judiciary would become a laughing stock in the world and urged the high court to take suo motu notice of the order and quash it.
“Judicial magistrates should not behave like Taliban moral police,” said Sorabjee. He said the magistrate, acting on an attention-grabbing complaint, had completely overlooked the “clear distinction between obscenity and vulgarity.”
“The order is totally unsustainable and makes us look ridiculous,” he said. Senior advocates Mukul Rohtagi, K T S Tulsi and Dushyant Dave felt the public peck at the AIDS awareness programme was not an act to deprave the morality of the nation. While Rohtagi felt that the magistrate was “trigger-happy”, Dave termed the order as an act of “judicial indecency”. Tulsi said,”The issuance of arrest warrant is contrary to all judicial norms. A consensual kiss between two adults can never be said to be an offence.”
Magistrate Gupta found the episode objectionable and in violation of sections 294 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code(IPC). Section 294 says:
“Whoever to the annoyance of others does any obscene act in any public place shall be punished with imprisonment of three months or with a fine or both.”
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