We all know what India's priorities are.. its not helping kids with aids. I think Jungle Fever is not on Bollywood's top 100 movies. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/26/gere.arrest.reut/index.html India court orders Gere's arrest Story Highlights • Gere's kisses at an AIDS event caused mass outrage • The actor can face up to three months in prison • Shetty said it was overboard, but not obscene JAIPUR, India (Reuters) -- An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS awareness event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public. Gere's repeated kisses on Shetty's cheeks at an event to promote AIDS awareness in New Delhi sparked protests in some parts of India, mostly by Hindu vigilante groups, who saw it as an outrage against her modesty and an affront to Indian culture. The order by a court in the northern city of Jaipur came in response to a complaint by a local lawyer. The judge watched a video recording of Gere kissing Shetty and found him guilty of violating Indian laws against public obscenity, the lawyer, Poonam Chand Bhandari, said. The court also summoned Shilpa Shetty to appear on May 5, Bhandari said, adding that Gere was also ordered to be arrested. Gere can be sent to jail for up to three months or fined or both for the crime if he is arrested. He is not in India now but can be held if he visits the country again. The Hollywood star is a devout Buddhist and a vocal supporter of the Tibetan cause and visits India frequently to meet the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India. He is also involved with charities looking after HIV-infected people and orphans, as well as AIDS prevention groups in the country. Groups of men had burned and kicked straw effigies of Gere and Shetty in sporadic protests across the country after newspapers published the picture of the kiss on their front pages and TV channels aired visuals of the event. Shetty, the winner of the "Celebrity Big Brother" reality TV show in Britain this year had said the kiss may have gone a "little overboard" but it was not obscene and the protests made India look regressive. She said Gere was only re-enacting his moves from the film "Shall We Dance" to entertain the audience at the AIDS event and communicate in a Bollywood style as he did not speak Hindi. Many commentators had subsequently expressed their unhappiness at what they said were fringe groups making a mountain of a harmless peck on the cheek. Copyright 2007 Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Richard Gere should be arrested....for impersonating an actor. But I have heard his new movie is pretty good.....
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What!?! Dont hate on an Officer and a Gentlemen! Who knows what tomorrow brings In a world, few hearts survive All I know is the way I feel When it's real, I keep it alive The road is long, there are mountains in our way But we climb a step every day Love lift us up where we belong Where the eagles cry on a mountain high Love lift us up where we belong Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow Some hang on to "used to be" Live their lives, looking behind All we have is here and now All our life, out there to find The road is long, there are mountains in our way, But we climb them a step every day Love lift us up where we belong Where the eagles cry on a mountain high Love lift us up where we belong Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow Time goes by No time to cry Life's you and I Alive, today Love lift us up where we belong Where the eagles cry on a mountain high Love lift us up where we belong Far from the world we know, up where the clear winds blow
Awards for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) Academy Awards, USA Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s) 1983 Won Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role Louis Gossett Jr. Best Music, Original Song Jack Nitzsche (music) Buffy Sainte-Marie (music) Will Jennings (lyrics) For the song "Up Where We Belong".
I am not surprised to see this at all...someone in India will file a case like this purely for publicity purposes...it obviously won't get anywhere. It happens all the time with Bollywood movies...shortly before a big movie release someone will file a copyright infringement type lawsuit to try to hold up the movie premiere.
$50 bucks says Richard Gere is did his "WTF, my wife is screwing this French azzhole" face from "Unfaithful" after reading the news of his warrant. It's unfortunate that Richard Gere spends his time raising money for AIDS awareness and this is how these ingrates treat him? Well done India.
Well, he did sorta force a kiss on that woman. She tried her best to break free but couldn't. In some countries, that would constitute sexual assault.
Yeah seriously - how could these people do anything right they are so uptight no? Ya know, it's totally cool to go to another country and just do whatever you want. If it's ok in your home country, then hey, too bad for the locals right? Why don't they just get a deal? They should come over here and demo the kama sutra on PBS and show us that they aren't so repressed! And we can show how tolerant we are.
thats odd; this article makes it appear like it was some major incident in India, but I was there when the kiss and the "protests" supposedly happened. I didnt hear, see, or read anything about it at all while I was there. It wasnt front page news (at least not in the newspapers I read), and I didnt see any visuals of it aired on the many news channels that they have there. The first time I heard about it was when I got back here late last week. I'm also not really sure why the article is trying to make it appear as if those 10-20 people protesting and that 1 idiotic judge (whose ridiculous case is going to be thrown out) are representative of what 999,999,990 other Indians think of the incident or of kissing in public. Rather than those staged "protests", I think a more accurate gauge is the reaction of the crowd present at the place Gere was speaking and where he groped Shilpa -- they were cheering and clapping throughout the entire episode.
