Richard Gere Kiss Causes Havoc

ANGRY crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere yesterday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event.
Photographs of Gere embracing Shilpa Shetty and kissing her on the cheek at the New Delhi event were splashed across yesterday's front pages in India, a country where sex and public displays of affection are largely taboo.

In Mumbai, members of the right-wing Hindu nationalist group Shiv Sena beat burning effigies of Gere with sticks and set fire to glamorous shots of Shetty.

Similar protests broke out in other cities, including Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city, and in the northern town of Meerut, where crowds chanted "Down with Shilpa Shetty!"

The two appeared at a press conference in New Delhi on Monday to highlight the HIV/AIDS epidemic among India's truck drivers.

In front of a cheering crowd, Gere kissed the giggling Shetty on the hand, then kissed her on both cheeks before bending her in a full embrace to kiss her cheek again.

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[jatin911]

I think he was drunk !

[wwwshaunwww]

I'm a hindu, and if that was me i wouldn't give a crap if people didn't like it. There's worse things in the world. Get over it. Freedom.

[user25505]

@SUPERBADMASH1 To be fair all women who are in holywood should do that at some point in front of the cameras!

[user25505]

If you invite someone to your country you are inviting their culture too. All I see in a few Bollywood movies which I saw, couldn't finish watching any of them till the end but no offense to Indian movie lovers who I know aren't few, is that they want to imitate the Western way of life and culture. But an incident like this shows us that just like Holywood what happens in their movies, in many cases, isn't actually the reality of life in their country.

[SUPERBADMASH1]

am sure she got phucked by him!!! all indian actresses will drop there pants to star in hollywood!!!

[ntdnad]

THANK YOU FOR DOING SO MUCH???

i can do that , even more

[bibihyfor]

llmatar7 you sir are an uneducated, classless,out of date twit! how do you think India got such a population, by dancing around trees?

[roossiboy]

don't they kiss in bollywood movies? theres so many love story movies out there. i wonder why they make them if its wrong. and millions even wana see the movie.

[bertyblue]

this is one reason why India will never be a super-power - insanely, ridicolous backward laws like no kissing in public/no public displays of affection etc

I mean wtf!? seriously who cares...recently a MARRIED couple got taken to court over kissing in public (but released later)...India need to get with it, if they're going to be taken seriously on the world stage, they do have alot going for them but the world laughs in their face when they read/see stories like these.

[chutchybo]

omg i wish it was me up there.

[greatgreatguy]

Thats class

[steelermia]

stupid feminists lol