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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Bollywood star cleared of obscenity 15 years after Richard Gere kiss It took 15 years, but a Bollywood star (an actress in India is considered a Bollywood star) has been cleared of obscenity after Richard Gere kissed her in public. Kissing (or other forms of affection) in public can be considered obscene, in India. ---------------- ---------------- Bollywood star cleared of obscenity 15 years after Richard Gere kiss NBC Universal Mithil Aggarwal and Anisha Kukreja January 28, 2022, 4:32 AM It started with a kiss from Richard Gere to raise awareness about AIDS. Fifteen years later, Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has been officially cleared of obscenity charges by an Indian court. Shetty, 46, was at an event in New Delhi to promote safe sex and the use of condoms in April 2007, when Gere hugged her and planted kisses on both of her cheeks. Public displays of affection are considered taboo by some in India, and the kiss set off protests by radical Hindu groups at the time. Effigies of the pair were burned in the streets. Gere, the star of “Pretty Woman” and other films, quickly apologized, saying that he wanted to show that kissing was safe and could not lead to the transmission of HIV. Shetty was also quick to defend Gere, saying he was enacting a scene from his film “Shall We Dance” to entertain the audience. An arrest warrant was nonetheless issued for Gere, although the obscenity charges were quickly thrown out by India’s Supreme Court, which dismissed them as “cheap publicity.” But the case against Shetty had languished in the Indian court system until last week, when Mumbai Metropolitan Magistrate Ketaki Chavan dismissed it as “groundless.” Describing it as “baseless and frivolous,” in a written submission to the court in 2017, Shetty’s lawyer, Madhukar Dalvi, had argued that the entire case rested on the fact that “she did not protest when she was kissed by the co-accused.” “This by no stretch of imagination makes her a conspirator or perpetrator of any crime,” he added. Chavan appeared to agree in the court ruling released Monday. “Shilpa Shetty is the victim of alleged act of accused No. 1,” she said in a written ruling, referring to Gere. Shetty has not commented on the ruling. | |
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| 01-31-22 04:52am - 1013 days | #2 | |
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avgazn86 (0)
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That's interesting. Although, I feel like Gere is worse in this situation. It may be commonplace to greet someone like that if you are in Europe or of a gentrified society, but it caused 15 years of grief and it was culturally insensitive of him to not know the customs, especially since it was with a high profile person in a society like India. I'm glad the charges were dropped on Shetty, but still. 15 years? | |
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| 01-31-22 09:57am - 1013 days | #3 | |
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LKLK (0)
Active User Posts: 1,583 Registered: Jun 26, '19 Location: CA |
Different countries have different customs. NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. So I guess that women are treated differently in India than in the US or many European countries. India seems to be more like an Arab country, where women are second-class citizens. But many men (and women) in India and Arab countries would deny that women are second-class citizens. | |
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