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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Hilarious really. The Indian have always been more than a little self centered and ehtnocentric. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:02 am Post subject: |
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I don't like Gere.
But this is plainly unfair. The guy was doing charity work, and what he did was not obscene. I might feel differently if Shetty had disapproved later, but she seems to care primarily about the charity.
It's amazing what kind of pettiness can arise even when you are promoting charitable causes. |
I agree with Kuros there. I think they were upset, becuase he kissed an Indian woman, so there is an element of racism there from the Hindu judges.
As far as Tibet, the Chinese have killed all kinds of Tibetans. You sound like an apologist for the Chinese government. Gere's movie is not even close to as harmful as Beijing killing Tibetans. These are facts. They have shot plenty of Tibetans. I have seen no sympathy really for the Tibetans from you.
I don't think Gere, if he knew the consequences of his actions, would have done that. He was trying to help Indians who are dying of AIDs i.e. trying to help so many people dying in that country. We aren't defending Gere as the person, but we are saying a country attacking someone, because he kissed an Indian woman when he meant no harm is religious fanatacism and ethno-centrism. Forgive me, I oppose fanatacism and ethnocentrism. I think you are missing the point. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: |
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Hmm...
Let's see. Gere is 57 & looks every year of it, from the link provided earlier. He's aged quite a bit too, since I saw him last. And he's pawing a young woman who doesn't look a day over 18. Not quite paedophilia, but bordering very close to it. Just my 2c worth. |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: |
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Did you watch the video? Gere couldn't control himself. His little brain took control from the bigger one and he was all over that young girl. Yeah, she's cute, but WTF. Gere looks like he's drunk or a perv.
Sure, the law is wrong, but Gere looks like he's auditioning for the part of the elder Ted Kennedy in a bad, made-for-TV movie. |
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chris_J2
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:46 am Post subject: |
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For those who think this is all some racist move by the Indian judicial system read this...
Bollywood's Rai targeted in new Indian kissing row
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.
"The court also sent notices to the Bihar government for allowing screening of the film despite its 'obscene' content," a court official said.
He said the judge handed out the orders after a lawyer argued the film "offended public sensibility."
The 33-year-old Rai, who was crowned Miss World in 1994 and married Bollywood heart-throb Abhishek Bachchan last week, has not responded to the court order, government officials said in the state capital Patna.
The summons came after a district court in another state issued arrest warrants for Gere and Indian actress Shilpa Shetty, whom he kissed enthusiastically at an HIV/AIDS awareness show this month in New Delhi.
The incident triggered a public storm in India, known for its chaste public behaviour despite Bollywood's sexually suggestive song-and-dance routines.
Radical Hindus burned effigies of the 57-year-old Gere in India's entertainment hub Mumbai and organised street rallies in several cities.
The 31-year-old Shetty -- winner of Britain's Celebrity Big Brother reality show this year -- appealed for calm after the kissing incident.
Gere later offered a "sincere apology" for any offence he caused.
"What is most important to me is that my intentions as an HIV/AIDS advocate be made clear and my friends in India understand it has never been nor could it ever be, my intention to offend you," he said in a statement.
"If that has happened, of course it is easy for me to offer a sincere apology," Gere said.
In both cases the celebrities are accused of indulging in "obscene acts" which carries a penalty of three months imprisonment, a fine or both.
Public acts of endearment are banned in India under the British-era Obscenity Act.
So...this might be viewed as standard practice in India but we are only aware of it now because this time it involved a western movie star or it might just be viewed as a veiled attempt to legitimize what steps they took with Richard Gere and Shipa Shetty.
What grabbed my attention was this line at the end of the article:
Public acts of endearment are banned in India under the British-era Obscenity Act.
So basically I blame the British  |
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