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Gere Kiss Causes Problem for Actress
Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:08:05 PM
Five months later, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere.

Immigration officials at Mumbai airport briefly detained Shetty, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of the public kiss with the Hollywood star, her publicist, Dale Bhagwagar, said Thursday.

Shetty was in tears late Wednesday after being stopped at the airport while on her way to Berlin where the musical "Miss Bollywood" opens this weekend, said Bhagwagar. Shetty plays the musical's lead role.

"She called me in the middle of the night and was in tears," said Bhagwagar, adding Shetty was finally permitted to join her dance troupe after prolonged questioning.

"I can understand something like this if I'd committed a criminal offense. But what was my offense, when I'm just an actor, going to perform a musical on foreign land," Bhagwagar quoted Shetty saying.

Gere embraced and kissed Shetty on her cheek at a public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi in April, sparking an outcry among conservative hardline Hindus, who claimed the pair had violated the country's strict anti-obscenity laws.

A regional court issued arrest warrants against Gere and barred Shetty from leaving the country. The order was soon overturned by the Supreme Court.

But the Supreme Court ruling didn't show up in the immigration department computer system, Bhagwagar said.

Immigration officials at Mumbai's international airport couldn't be reached for comment, but Bhagwagar said Shetty's lawyers would take up the matter with authorities.

Shortly after the April brouhaha erupted, Gere apologized for any offense he may have caused. But the actor also said the controversy had been manufactured by a small hard-line political party.

Gere, 58, is a frequent visitor to India, promoting health issues and the cause of Tibetan exiles, tens of thousands of whom live in India.

Shetty, a well-known actress in India, became an international star after her appearance on the British reality show "Celebrity Big Brother."

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This post has been edited by tuklu_san: 27 September 2007 - 02:18 PM

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kichui na - its typical of a society suddenly thinking it is liberated from conservatism and goes to the opposite extreme before finding a balance - maybe another 70 - 80 years will do it.

BTW, Aryan kothaye ? He would have some very interesting observation about this, I am sure.

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very true .. but it wont be another 70/80 years .. rather only a few more years after getting overwhelmed by some more

This post has been edited by soutik: 27 September 2007 - 08:22 PM

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kichu mne kro na bandhu ra.......... ata just amar totally personal dharona...... kau k hit kora
amar uddesso na........ BTW ami ai community te akebare natun........

Now my point is:----------

ki ache???? ate ato hoi choi korar moto kichu hoyni blei amar dharona..........
its a free country jar ja icche karuk na............ ai sob at vat issue nie media baro besi
mata mati kore ............. er theke anek serious problem ache.......... se gulo nie alochona
krle hoy to kajer kaj hbe..........

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... and that exactly is the point. This item made it to CNN.

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kichui na - its typical of a society suddenly thinking it is liberated from conservatism and goes to the opposite extreme before finding a balance - maybe another 70 - 80 years will do it.

Tukluda....exactly ei line ta ki tumi age onno kono thread e likhechile ? Khub chena chena lagche...

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bodhoye likhechilam - karon prithibir onyo onek desh exactly ei phase gulo diye geche, aar timeline gulo orokom range-er.

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hmmm .. byaparta ektu ghoralo .. edike mera bharat mahan .. odike ....