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I don't get it. don't they kiss in Bollywood?

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shivendrashukla · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:31 am Post subject:

I guess some people like to be center of attraction, and will do anything for that. Not to mention they have lots and lots of free time on their hands as they have no job and ofcourse no family to attend to.

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sammyk · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:13 am Post subject:

What did he do wrong? They burned effigies because he kissed a woman on the cheek? Wow. You'd think they'd find something more productive to do with their time.

D-ABTH · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

everytime they bring up issue of "culture" and what not.. makes me sick honestly.

and lets face it.. everything does not have to have sexual overtones. so why make a purely non sexual event a sexual/indecent event? i mean do they still believe in the concept of birds and bees? wtf how did they come into existence? whats the purely biological function and natural discharge on natures biological level for a male and a female?

i could go on and on... but this just never ends. i guess we just have a national passtime of sensationalism and at converting non issues into issues to divert or just generate attention.

why dont these very people protest against corruption? against rape? against casteism? against racism? against domestic violence? against farmer deaths/debts/hardships due to severe corruption and govt policies? against politicians who misuse the funds and powers they are sworn to use with good judgement for the BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE and NOT their OWN BENEFIT.? against police brutality? against child labour? against dowry? against child marriages? against several repeated steep rises in basic commodities? against deteriorating infrastructure and rising cost of living due to siphoning of public funds and the n number of scams a year?

WHY THE HELL DONT THEY TAKE UP THESE ISSUES??

makes me sick..
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HAWK21M · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:26 am Post subject:

its called protest to popularity Smile

Blame the media too for making it headline news.
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himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

These buggers are seeking publicity and the media provides it to them. The media should act in an responsible manner and not provide the few minutes of fame these guys seek.

The Govt. on the other hand should ensure that these thugs should not get away with destruction of private and public property. Strict action should be taken against them to ensure tat nobody repeats these acts in the future. One reason why these acts are repeated so often is that no action has been taken against them.

There are people who file PILs in the courts on trivial issues thus taking up the valuable time of the courts and blowing up tax payers money. The courts should be very strict with these PILs and should not entertain them, instead a stiff penalty should be imposed on people filing such PILs.
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the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:29 pm Post subject:

And the best part is that when Emraan Hashmi kisses in a movie the same guys go and watch the movie and the same media hypes about his "feelings", "emotions" and "thoughts"while he kissed.
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VABBy · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 823 Location: DEL

Well people are complaining because Richard was able to Kiss her which others have always wanted to do but havent been able to accomplish that Wink

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if they say that sex is not a part of indian culture and its wrong blah blah blah!!!! then what about the Kama-Sutra? and what about the population explosion! someones ****ing!!!!

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the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject:

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It seems that India is increasingly becoming an intolerant society. That is very very dangerous.

I don’t get this whole 'against Indian culture' BS. I mean they aren’t walking around naked- it was just a kiss. Even if it was on the mouth who cares?

Off topic but slightly connected is the issue of sex education. Ministers and chief ministers are saying it’s 'against India’s culture' and 'India has a rich heritage so sex education shouldne be allowed? It baffles. I try and be objective and see their point of view but I just get angry when I hear those comments.

I truly believe that if their idea of Indian culture is one of intolerance then I want no part of it.
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the_380 · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:10 am Post subject:

I seriously don't know how many people would agree to this, but i think there *might* be some political interference out here, although not sure how, but maybe... just a thought
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HAWK21M · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

Watch the Media on Tv these days.Apart from NDTV, CNN-IBM & a few others.The rest sell Hype.Interviewing even the Neighbour about his hair Smile

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the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject:

Now this is just too much Evil or Very Mad

Jaipur court orders Gere's arrest for "obscene" kiss Shocked

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS campaign event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public. Shocked

Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks at an event to promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in some parts of India, mostly by Hindu vigilante groups, who saw it as an outrage against her modesty and an affront to Indian culture. Rolling Eyes

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Look whose talking about "culture"...
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C-GHKR · Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 626 Location: yyz

Cool! welcome back to stone age, oh wait! it was acceptable then.

We are proving that we could be worse and be more extreme than pakistan, taliban or saudi.

Any westerner coming to India can face jail for kissing, not removing shoes etc.

Things are moving backwards and don't give lame excuses like it is a media hype. It is a real issue.

the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject:

The best part was that Shilpa Shetty was herself upset over such an issue being made and she accused these fools...
huh ?? big deal... i wonder then Emraan Hashmi should be hanged to death Rolling Eyes

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the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

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," Shocked

saying the pair violated India's strict public obscenity laws

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/ap/20070426/117760068000.html
What next ? Rolling Eyes

A man arrested for hugging his wife near the airport before he leaves for his 6 month tour ? Shocked

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Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

These are the same people who will go watch a movie in which some starlet does an item number wearing a see-through wet white saree.

If they spent half their time doing 1/100000 of what Richard Gere has done to battle AIDs in India, they'd make themself somewhat useful.

Typically, some miserable court in Rajasthan has ordered Gere to be arrested.

What a travesty of justice. Indian politics and administration has over 50 years become the domain of uneducated, marginally literate, communal goondas of every stripe.

the_380 · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject:

These people might not be worth even Richard Gere's foot !!!!
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G-BYGB · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:00 am Post subject:

The sad thing is this news is broadcasted on all int'l news channel.Some of their news anchors are even finding it funny.So most of the people watching it all over the world will find it stupid on the part of India to go to such an extent of arresting MR.Gere over this small matter.

Shame on Indian politicians who have once again pushed the country two steps backward while we are trying to move forward economicaly and culturaly.Now outsiders will definitly have a doubt as to whether India is really a culturaly tolerant country or not.After this episode we can't call ourselves a progressive society anymore bcoz there are still lot of senseless people at the realm of power who are calling the shots .They certainly know what they are doing is abslutely wrong and yet they try to portray themselves as good men.

They try to tell us what is right or wrong.Well I've got one thing to say to them we people especialy the youths ,know what is good for us.
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G-BYGB · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:19 am Post subject:

If this trend continues then it'll bring threat to the democratic structure of our society.We've to prevent it from happening in the future.
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C-GHKR · Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 626 Location: yyz

Sorry about my ignorance, i don't quite understand how Jaipur can issue a warrant for an incident in delhi. What is their jurisdiction? How does it work? I don't know much about law I guess. Crying or Very sad

HAWK21M · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

Blame the media for giving undue publicity to this event.Encouraging others to climb on the Bandwagon for publicity Smile

Just don't make it headlines/Breaking news.

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the_380 · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:49 pm Post subject:

Wow !!! Well what happens to Mahesh bhatt's films then ? Rolling Eyes

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HAWK21M · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject:

G-BYGB · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

Most of the news channels these days concentrate on creating sensation over nothing so that their TRP ratings go up.
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the_380 · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

Richard Gere is supposed to have asked the media to "end this circus" waiting for the news online... if anyone finds it pls do post it
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Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

Its no wonder that the Courts in India have a case backlog of over 25 years. Its because they're too busy pushing paperwork on crap like this.

<i>294. Obscene acts and songs

Whoever, to the annoyance of others--

(a) does any obscene act in any public place, or

(b) sings, recites, or utters any obscene song, ballad or words, in or near any public place,

shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both. </i>

This Statute is empty nonsense.

How do you define an obscene act? There is little or no case precedence in Indian law.

Under this law, the next time one sees a Shiv Sena member or any member of the BJP take a piss in public, call anyone a BC/MC or similar, I say we haul him up to the Jaipur High Court.

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Well if there's a positive effect of this- is that our High Courts or Supreme Court will take a stance and set precedence.
We need the Supreme Court to stand up and say kissing is not obscene and that the lower courts shouldn’t entertain any cases such as these.
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the_380 · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:52 am Post subject:

[sarcasm]Wow this is getting better every coming day[/sarcasm]

Bollywood's Rai targeted in new Indian kissing row

PATNA, India (AFP) - Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai has been summoned to explain an "obscene" kissing scene, Indian officials said Saturday, just days after a similar row engulfed Hollywood's Richard Gere.

Rai, who married into the Indian film industry's most famous family last week, was ordered to appear before a district court over a scene in which she is kissed lightly on the cheek.

Her "Dhoom-II" co-star Hrithik Roshan and the owners of a cinema which screened the action film have also been summoned to Muzaffarpur court in the eastern state of Bihar on May 30.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070428/en_afp/entertainmentindiaraibollywoodjustice_070428161442
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C-GHKR · Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 626 Location: yyz

I guess the south Indian super star "Shakeela" will be hanged to death.
Here's a link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakeela

Nimish · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

SC stays proceedings against Shilpa

from: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=86493