“Hypocrisy is a word one can apply to the actions of certain people. Day before yesterday, there was a music program in Delhi to raise awareness of Aids. There were 4000 truck drivers who attended the program. The chief guests were Hollywood actor Richard Gere and actress Shilpa Shetty.
Gere is on a world worldwide tour to raise awareness of Aids and he has visited India several times in this connection. In one of these programs, Radhika and Kamal Hassan have also participated.
During the Delhi show, Gere got a bit carried away and he hugged Shilpa Shetty and kissed her. Shivsena who deem this against Hindu culture, started to protest by tearing up posters and burning effigies. They demanded that Shilpa and Gere have to apologise to remove this slur on Hindu culture.
It does not look like Shilpa has paid any heed to something ordinary like a kiss. Richard Gere has requested that arrangements be made to help him leave India with pleasant memories.”
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Source: TamilStar
I think its ridiculous that people are burning posters and stuff. It was a gesture of affection and i think it should be perceived like that. We have smooches in our movies what are we talking about. These same people go and watch blue films at a morning shows.
i dont think richard did anything wrong with shilpa , come on now we have so much vulgar things going on in our own bollywood so what so fuss about it. Moreover what is the difference when one english celebrity jade abused shila we burned posters and alleged her by saying her racist now another celebrity richard showing shilpa his affection and love and we again started burning posters and protesting against him. Do we guys have any personal problem with english?
Fricking hilarious whole thing including the Bhaashan from pitiful Shilpa.
Nice kiss though!
hey guys whats with the whole thing…indians are supposedly the most educated people..we should not let the media rule us to such an extent…lets not make a fuss over nothing…if we are to focus n the wrong things we wont go far in life….hats off to shilpa and richard gere.it was sweet of them both to help people..its people who sit and do nothing have all the time in the world to create havoc…
Thank god that no one has talked about Indian culture and blah blah blah here,, when we are ready to see a french kiss in Indian movies and all those scantily clad women.. this doesnt mean anything…
man that kiss sucks…
take a traning class from emraan hashmi… he does much better than that.
smooch would have been better, disappointed.
who cares about culture and society, when there is a show, we have to take full advantage of it, gets more publicity too.
unnecessarily famous shilpa
Nothing wrong their,
Its funny that people make such things a big fuss !!! If the same happens in movies the same people watch it eyes wide open !! Come on people, grow up….forget about the example what other are setting, jus look into ur own walk and talk that ur children watch n learn everyday. Lazy bugs…look for a job n feed ur family.
i think media is jealous that no one got a chance to kiss shipla at least they should be satisfied that they enjoyed by watching them
What the Shilpa and Gere are upto?
1. Reduce the number of Aids cases or increase.
or
2. In the cover of AIDS awareness they want to increase their fame.
Why are they making fuss of this? Its not a big deal. This is very common. Some people want India to be backward so they try hard to push its growth in the opposite direction. Lets become a developed country rather than staying as developing, so my people please stop caring about these trivial things and do something to contribute to the countries growth. Though Gere apologises for what has happened it is ultimately us who’ll become fools.
well unfortunate replies all these. What is the purpose of the show–.to control Aida? And kiss and smooch on the dais? And say nothing wrong? you kidding.
The purpose of the show apart,
what picture do you get if some one kisses like that outside of the screen, well thatz ridiculous that we support that issue and say we are most educated people to do that.
He actually had insulted our females. Just lets reverse the issue. Say we happen to kiss an american on any dais like that, what do you think the reply would be from the american crowd after knowing that we are from a different nation? It really is a horrible act.
Actually since we support these activities, that people like ponting dare to do all kinds of shit with indian ladies. Indian actresses are not prostitutes to really behave like that. He actually bend her on the back for kissing. You do that either with you wife or a prostitute. That is not a mere kissing. Its an aggressive intent of sex.
Wht is so vulgur in that ,tht this video is causing so much nuisance.
hai vinutha do you like that?
in a unexpected moment,she too did’t expect this.so wat she can do.y media giving publicity much for them.
Did any one think about this ?
If an Indian actor does the same thing in USA to an American lady. She will sue him for the sexual harrasement.
From the above comments it is clear that some Indians are ready to accept even the developed nations wouldn’t accept.
I think its unexpected thing happend but richard have to know our indian culture this is india a well cultured country in my opinion its a accident but richard have to control himslef it seems like he is so horney.
Richard Gere kissing Shilpa is not something to be offended by. But what is the point that he’s trying to prove when neither of them has AIDS.
if any actor from India kiss any woman in USA she will definitely sue him..
we Inidans are always trying to adjust with the world but the world never acknowledge us.. just compare this with the US ambassador issue in Mumbai.
one more ex: none of the US media is talking bout Minal Panchal. she is still an un identified body.
When will we stop with this culture bull shit…. we do everything that is supposedly against Indian culture (look at the movies)…. and what the hell is Indian culture anyway it has mixed so much with other cultures, over 100’s of years, that we forgot what Indian culture is; one just has to look at our historic temples to realize how we perceived sex in the past. We were very open to talk about sex (look at the sculptures). The kiss is a way of showing affection no one is going to sue anyone for a kiss…. feeking hell grow up…. if we are treated equally with the whites we say that it is against our culture if we a left out we call it racism… make up your mind…. I for one see nothing wrong with this….
bull shit political partys change ur name from the gods name i couldnt even scold you,whats wrong in that video
Oh yeah !!!
No one touch a lady unless she allows it, here Shilpa wants Richard to proceed, many more beyond the screen which we can’t see it. May be Richard wants to show his love in front of the audiences, In the other words may be sex appeal.
I am 100% agree with thinking and dudes better grow up
How I wish Indians were a little more sensible! I feel embarassed that Indian general polulation is so highly stupid!
That was such a nice kiss out of affection! Can’t people see the sweetness in it? What is vulgar? He didn’t do anything wrong!
O god! Will public never improve??
shilps is trying to show her sex appeal to the public.The bollywood is trying to make india as a westernised by smooching and flirting openly like the american do. shipa got the money to do such things.She is the one who is allowing to do this.Shilpa is an international prostuitute and she is after all a hindu randi.
There is nothing wrong in the kiss , but shilpa looks like a great preacher by saying atidhi devobhava, I feel she over reacted to situation. This happens to every celebrity.
If some country media generalizes other country as idiots based on some issues, then we can find many idiotic nations. So some one who wrote that O god! Will public never improve?? you have seen .001 percent of our population reacting to that. Infact 60 to 70 % of our rural populstion doesn’t even care abt that.
guys there is dif between normal kiss and kiss given by this guy
It Doesnt seem like a kiss..
It seems .. Kiss …given to the girl frnd…
may be last 5 months back this guy (he was some previous american idol i think)covered morning TV show show host Kelly ripa’s mouth with his hand(mugh band kardiya in hindi), actually he just covered her mouth while she was telling something its reaction was horrible entire news, televition pgms was showing that here. so better understand in no culture its ok to do such a thing publicaly as it not a normall kiss he is applying force what do these ppl think they can do anything with Indians?, richard gere wants to get publicity in India as his new movie is getting released.now in every village ppl will be knowing richard gere as some white man kissed shilpa shetty.. its all publicity stund.
showing in bollywood movie is totally different stuff, u are going to watch the movie .. but this definitely is against Indian woman. will u tolerate if richard gere does this to ur sister or any social worker? will u again say thats what bollywood shows.shilpa shetty is thr for a cause and no man is allowed to touch her or any woman like this..
ppl grow up have sence dnt just try to get along with these chauvinistic ideas just to show that you are ‘cool’ India is a place of tollerance and thats the reason the whole world was coming and using us for 1000s of years and we have this so called mixed culture.its only because we still have some value that u still wants a virgin wife even though u watch all the porn sites everyday
so understand we have our coulture may be some ppl dnt have it atleast we woman wants safety in the society we dnt want any one doing this with our sisters since bollywood is showing cleavage or skin show..
a women,
with your comments, I hope people will open eyes. I know that Indians are tolerant people. But I was suprised to see that many people are taking it casually and are ready to allow foreigners to do whatever they want.
EVEN TOLERANCE HAS SOME LIMITS.
1000 years of foreign rule, Indians seem to be totally dominated and miguided.
I think all of you guys missed the comments of this muslim b***** called “julia robert”(above). Why didn’t nobody give some piece of sh** to this lunatic.
Guys, forget about these un-necessary things….all actress, actors wants money and publicity….as common man we should not waste our valuable time for these….if u like the scene enjoy it else leave it….don’t waste your time…..
Media and celebrities know that Indian public is so stupids…..they will make big scene of small things….that’s why they will do….
No one can decide whether Gere did right or wrong….it’s all depends on person to person….Shilpa thinks it’s correct…but some of the Indian’s are thinking it’s wrong….
Indian public always talks about their old and great culture….which is of no use at this point….no one will care about your past greatness….you can’t survive with your past greatness…. who cares about your past….think about your future…
Sorry if I hurt any Indian….btw, I am also an Indian.
Here’s the deal: Everyone has to stop thinking of people as American, Indian, white, black, whatever. Celebrities kissing each other or non-celebrities kissing and finding each other attractive transcends racial and ethnic boundaries. Heck, those boundaries are man-made and false anyway. If I find an Indian woman attractive, you bet I am going to try and kiss her if the time is right. The same can be said for a Kenyan woman, a Thai woman, an American woman, or even a man. It’s no one’s business but mine and their’s. Back off racists and homophobes and those who think there is really such a thing as race. Let people be free to love and lust whither they will.