Oh! Come on, get over it, it wasn’t even a kiss. Indian TV news channels are showing and comparing Richard Gere’s kiss on Shilpa Shetty’s cheek as that of Mika and Rakhi Sawant. Shilpa Shetty was in the news recently for her win in the Big Brother 2007. People are calling up Media Houses to tell Shilpa how she have erred. Are you suggesting that Shilpa should shrug and shout “Don’t kiss me!” Let’s stop being culture vultures.
UPDATES
2007 April 17
This article caught the attention of Mumbai Mirror - a Mumbai specific newspaper of Times of India.
2007 April 17
The episode is being blown out of proportion by people who do not seem to know what an actual kiss is! On that fateful occasion where Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty were promoting an AIDS awareness function in New Delhi, Richard took Shilpa in a Tango mode and kissed her on HER CHEECKS. As expected in our India, culture activists are burning effigies of Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty.
Shilpa Shetty have announced that, “I don’t think we have done anything wrong. It was an impromptu act Richard did on stage for sheer entertainment.” She further adds, “I don’t want the Indian media and Indians to appear foolish to the outside world.”
Richard says, “The Indians should come forward, I don’t see it coming.”
For those who missed the TV slot, here is the video on YouTube.
2007 April 27
Here is a seriously funny development after the Richard-Shilpa kissing episode. Yesterday, a Jaipur additional chief justice magistrate ordered the arrest of Richard Gere for kissing Shilpa Shetty. The magistrate, acting on the private complaint filed by advocate Poonam Chand Bhandari, and pronounce that the act was “sexually erotic” and “indecent”. My verdict is that, these people seem have not been making love for ages and don’t know what is are “sexually erotic” and what are not.
It won’t be surprising if the outside world will laugh at the Indian Judiciary. Well, if many educated-but-illiterate people can do this stuffs, take protest, why can’t the educated and younger Indians of today’s India do a protest against these protests. Something like “STOP THE STUPIDITY BEHIND RICHARD-SHILPA KISSES“. If some section of the society can stage a protest, why not stage an anti-protest to that and end the stupidity once and for all.
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WELCOME to the west……….boys
Posted 16 Apr 2007 at 9:36 pm ¶Alright, will somebody please tell me from where are you guys coming in. My referral log shows google.in. But then it is impossible for people to search for them and find my site. Moreover, there are 75 votes as I write this.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 12:18 am ¶>My referral log shows google.in. But then it is impossible for people to search for them and find my site.
Want to bet?
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 3:07 am ¶Will we evvver grow up!!!
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 6:18 am ¶Coming from google.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 6:41 am ¶I searched for Gere kisses Shilpa.
I googled for “gere kiss shilpa” and ended up here. You seem to be becoming “FAMOUS”
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:08 am ¶Hey why such a hue & cry over a kiss. Guess people are jealous. Really lucky Shilpa………….your irresitable beauty and charm made Mr. Gere FIDA over you !!
Focus on the Cause “Safe sex” !! Kissing won’t SPREAD AIDS !!
Reshma from Nepal!!
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:22 am ¶I strongly beleive that such things should not be done in public . atleast not in India
Chadrasekar from USA
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:44 am ¶Ah! I just did coupla searches and google showed me this page. This is not bad.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:49 am ¶thats good buddies,,,,, what u going to achieve when u dont let ur cheeks kissed by anyone and die one day,,,
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:50 am ¶Let u kiss by anyone who wishes on this earth,,,,
Its after all a feeling ,,,which Mr, Gere has expressed openly,,
U idiots ,,, always do great things behind the scenes ,,
Gere has just done small thing in front of everyone,,,
so,, just praise him,,,Learn from Mr. Gere..
Also learn from Shilpa ,,to give ur cheeks to others for kissing,,,
yes enjoy life mr Gere.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 11:50 am ¶though it was’nt a matter to be even talked of for gere, it was a good reason enough for fanatic groups to start off protests.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 12:27 pm ¶the big question is??? y is shilpa being blamed for it?
could she have said no or slapped gere(who has been actively involved in the drive to stop the spread of AIDS in a our country ) right the on stage? Agreed that it was not to be.. but all the resulting analysis of a simple kiss clearly shows the extent uselee, unemployed people belonging to extremist groups can go to blow insignificant matters out of proportions.
Shilpa is dying for some publicity…
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 12:38 pm ¶Now through Gere, the fool!!!
silpa is responsible for the violation of our culture. she should be penalised .
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 12:40 pm ¶Ah! I just discovered that Mumbai Mirror caught the article too. So, this and the Google search result completes the puzzle over the sudden reader influx. Thanks everybody for coming here.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 1:22 pm ¶Ha ha ha, this guy is american and he’s a perfect showman. He knowns exactly what will occur after kissing holy Shetty and you’re just part of the manipulation. No one should care and star won’t have to play that kind of card to attract attention.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 2:20 pm ¶I don consider this should be hyped
and I also think
Shilpa is one lucky gal..She gets famous by controversy in Big brother and She wins it…And now another Controversy its from a guy from the US…
She rocked UK and now she gonna rock India and the Hollywood…
I think its really good time for Shilpa
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 4:10 pm ¶Hahaahah he Gere seems very hot person and got perfect kiss !!!!
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 4:48 pm ¶should of given her one up the shit box !!!
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 6:49 pm ¶the matter can be seen in two ways. on one hand gere tries to entertain the drivers to make them aware of the program about.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 10:06 pm ¶the matter can be seen in two ways. on one hand gere tries to entertain the drivers to make them aware of the program about. but is an isue if seen through a glass of indian culture.
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 10:11 pm ¶Indian people are really backwards. They are beginning to get what I see as negative, silly presses…not the most effective way to introduce outsiders to your culture. They should get real….India has probably the biggest AIDS problem…
Posted 17 Apr 2007 at 10:20 pm ¶(and, yes I am Indian)
has anyone seen the way this chick dresses? she shows off 1/2 her body and everyone is freaking out over a kiss on the cheek? seriously? what is WRONG with people - THEY NEED TO JUST GET OVER IT! if this lady dressed with 90% of her body clothed and then richard gere kissed her - then i’d find it offensive - but sersiously - she dresses like a whore.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 1:11 am ¶I think stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, talented Shilpa, should just get out of India of the dark ages, and move to U.K or US and continue her career in acting, modelling etc. I think the protestors have nothing else in their lives. I saw the initial news break on CNN late last night in the U.S and then just googled it under Richard Gere Shilpa Shetty and it provided me a plethora of links.
My My for such a trivial incident all this outrage, and please this is just a kiss on the cheeks and maybe an ardent dip and hug, which is a lot better than these same protestors masturbating in cinema theaters in the dark, oggling and even groping young girls furtively in crowds and in public areas, staring at them and plainly making many women and young girls, wish they had never even stepped out. And then these same people drool over the Bollywood cinemas which are full of nearly naked, scantily dressed females in all kinds of sensual scenes, dancing in next to nude costumes, not to mention the kissing and many more things, to get these protestors to pack theaters in India. These same protestors, go home to their child brides (yes, this I have witnessed on my several extensive travels to India, where I have talked to so many women (ranging from 14 to 19 year olds), whose husbands have continually raped these innocent girls, forced into arranged marriages in their small town /villages in many many parts of India.
Their stories are so pathetic and then I feel like gassing all these madcaps. Let’s not forget these same monsters immolated themselves for the release of Salman Rushdies controversial Satanic Verses. Muslim Fundamentalists, Hindu fundamentalists …..you see are all men, very few women in these protests.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 1:12 am ¶Anybody defending an actress like Shilpa Shetty with a pathetic stretch of an excuse, like modesty and virtue could not have been further away from the truth. Let them protest to outlaw the use of prostitues in Mumbai and Calcutta, burn effigies of men, who need women for their sexual gratification. Of all things, for a country with such a xenophobic and pathetic view towards a genuinely innocent hug and a kiss on the cheeks (mind you this was not on the lips), this is the country which can boast a population of a billion plus. Please explain to me, how all these populace came into existance, did they just drop from the skies.
It’s truly embarassing watching such news coming out of India in this day and time. So much for the worlds’s largest democracy. Shilpa and Richard are so out of league with this populace, they can completely ignore them and no need for them to apologize and explain anything. I wonder if these same protestors will line the streets burning any effigies, if it was an Indian actor who swooped on a white actress….I wonder if we will still be hearing this big raucous.
Yeah !! I don’t care about it as i voted in the poll.
But still i wana to say … !!
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 3:39 am ¶She is a bollywood actress & hundreds of time she did that with many co-actors in movies and everyone is freaking out over a kiss on the cheek in public? seriously? what’s WRONG with it …… ???
Perhaps it wasn’t the initial kiss that bothered Indians. Perhaps it was Gere’s follow-up, forceful bending her backward despite her unwillingness and then having his way-even though his way is just a peck on the cheek- that offended the sensibility of a conservative nation where you don’t kiss a woman in public, much less against her will.
Look closely at the video. He grabs her, puts one hand on her waist, tries to bend her backward, and she resists even though she’s trying to keep a smiley face. Then he gets more aggressive, plants one foot down firmly, lowers his hand onto her hip and grabs tighter and this time he exerts more force with his upper body to force her to bend even as she clearly tries to wiggle her body out of his grip. She finally caves in, and frankly, if I were her husband or boyfriend, as an American I’d be offended by someone forcing themselves like that. It’s one thing if she’s letting you kiss her, it’s another to take charge of her body and force something onto her. In fact, if you start looking from the beginning, it appears as though Gere was planning this thing from the beginning. His every step looks calculated except that he wasn’t counting on her resisting. To cover up the embarrassment afterward, Richard kneels in front of her. How utterly pathetic. This was definitely not by her consent even though being on the stage in front of a large audience, most people are going to make it look like this is all in fun and games. Imagine yourself in front of your conservative countrymen, being forcefully bent backward when you don’t know what the inteion of the guy is. Richard Gere, you need to chill, buddy. You kind of acted like Joe Namath on ESPN. That was mighty rude even if your intentions were innocent.
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 7:17 am ¶Is this a thing to fret about???
May be a lot of people are hyping this cos they are jealous of Gere
Posted 18 Apr 2007 at 7:10 pm ¶I am a Bombayite and I am shocked by the reaction of the people and also the media who are trying to captilize on this by making it a big issue.
The irony of the fact is that before this whole thing happened semi-nude babes danced around the stage shaking their T&As and the crowd seemed to have enjoyed it. I also believe kissing is quite common in Hindi movies these days and it is so ironic for people to come down so hard against Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere, both entertainers and movie stars who probably do this many times everyday. If the same people who lashed out today were to have done this for each and every such incident, then it would have some weightage, else it looks like spineless cheap people who want to use this to publicize their own ulterior motives.
Posted 19 Apr 2007 at 11:41 pm ¶Image and Videos of Richard Gere kissing Shilpa Shetty.
Posted 20 Apr 2007 at 10:41 am ¶Even Frenchies are talking about that!
Posted 20 Apr 2007 at 6:13 pm ¶That’s mad
Are we fools?? Dont we have any job rather than investigating these kinda of rubbishness???
Only GOd knows why always Shilpa been @ the receiving end?? She can be a role-model for future endeavors (to act smart and gaining publicity [:P]).
From UK to US now!!! Carry on Shilpa.. lolzzz [:D]
Posted 21 Apr 2007 at 12:02 pm ¶I believe that toilet trash western culture has no business preaching to a 5000 year old culture about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate. Kissing on the cheek is not okay in Indian Hindu tradition and the West must learn to deal with it.
I could point out a hundred things wrong with Western culture but i don’t think it matters. For example, i could talk about Western women delivering babies in the toilet and disposing them in trash cans [yes, in America]. Or i could talk about Western men who have the propensity to stalk and rape children.
Those who live in glass houses dare not hurl stones at others. Please be decent.
Posted 29 Apr 2007 at 2:44 am ¶I would like to make a comment regarding what INDIAN LOVER has said. Western culture as different as it is to Indian Culture might not be perfect BUT neither is the indian culture and country. Speaking of child stalking and rape, india is a country with the second highest HIV and AIDS infected people in the world, child prostitution and sex slavery is at its highest in the country, so people living in glass houses should not throw stones is a good point!
Posted 29 Apr 2007 at 10:13 pm ¶guys what shivashankar (me gave the comment ) is it correct ?
Posted 03 May 2007 at 7:22 pm ¶i think people are dumb to make this silly thing an issue!.in a country where people dont have enuf to eat and the politicians are actaully doing worse stuff like ruining the nation shilpa and richard were acting for a beautiful cause…….idiots who spoil tha name of india internationally should remember how shilpa won big brother with the support of other nationals….unlike us uncultured people…we should learn that culture is actually respecting guests and not insulting them
Posted 08 May 2007 at 1:59 pm ¶i thin k indian lover should read some news paper and learnwhat india has rich-highest rape,aids,poverty,political killing,communal violence-believe me indian lover…i am an indian.love india but definitely i have common sense…..i mean indian culture first is about respect for others-fellow women…about giving birth in toilets…u think indian women are having a great life…what about 13 yearold mothers who later end up begging and being prostitutes…what about child rapes…porn theatres…how come noone burn anything then…
if people really protested against all crap especially communal crap,rape…..child labour..burnt effigies then believe me i would have been on your side.
Posted 08 May 2007 at 2:10 pm ¶shivashankar go fall inlove or get married soon
Posted 08 May 2007 at 2:14 pm ¶Baal falainna sceen deikhha somoy noster time nai
Posted 21 May 2007 at 11:24 am ¶what ever happens like this..it remains as a very good entertainment for teens….nothing more than that….
Posted 30 May 2007 at 4:09 pm ¶Ah! so what if he kissed her,is she a some kind of political or religeous personality we all have seen her so many times on the screen doing this before,what do you all think kissing is a more big offence then showing body and naked parts,folks she is just a celebrity and its not a big issue cheer up and act normal this is not somthing to talk about even if he had kissed on her lips for five mins.Grow up all and see to whom you are talking about.
Posted 08 Jun 2007 at 5:24 pm ¶Thundering Typhoons !!!!!!!!!
It is a bloody nonsense. To bother about this
triffle episode is height of stupodity
kissing whereever is not a crime !!!do nort mix
personal behaviour with other matters
it ia bleady kiss ! not a crime
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