Bollywood's Rai targeted in new Indian kissing row

[JODO 2]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070428/en_af...rY4G_KIwb4nHL8C

Bollywood's Rai targeted in new Indian kissing row

Sat Apr 28, 12:14 PM ET

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.

[William33 110]

You know, birth control should be in the forefront of the Indian mindset.

The majority of the 1.1 billion people struggling?

Go figure.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I understand now. The reason for Rai's alleged actions that lead to her situation is a result from jealousy of her fans. It's a simple case of jealousy.

[ELW 5]

Summoned for being kissed lightly on the cheek? Oh brother, how ridiculous, is all I can say.

[Fandango 1,440]

I googled her image cos I wanted to see what she looked like, and I found this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...ficial%26sa%3DN

not gonna post the img cos there's full boobage. But how can they have a problem with a kiss if she's posed in the semi-nude?

[Alex+R 0]

I googled her image cos I wanted to see what she looked like, and I found this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...ficial%26sa%3DN

not gonna post the img cos there's full boobage. But how can they have a problem with a kiss if she's posed in the semi-nude?

eeeeyah, plus, I've seen way worse in a Bollywood movie. This must be just some sort of crusade. Besides, Hrithik Roshan, kinda foxy:

[Ban Hammer 14,298]

I googled her image cos I wanted to see what she looked like, and I found this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...ficial%26sa%3DN

not gonna post the img cos there's full boobage. But how can they have a problem with a kiss if she's posed in the semi-nude?

thanks for the boobie pics lisa

[sereia 0]

he's hot! *drool

[Nikita2Charles 33]

they are just HATING.

Those lawyers are just looking for Publicity, They could use that energy to help out poor women whose fighting their husband family for Dowry request, and ABUSE

[ELW 5]

Those lawyers are just looking for Publicity, They could use that energy to help out poor women whose fighting their husband family for Dowry request, and ABUSE

Agreed.

[Niels Bohr 72]

I googled her image cos I wanted to see what she looked like, and I found this

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...ficial%26sa%3DN

not gonna post the img cos there's full boobage. But how can they have a problem with a kiss if she's posed in the semi-nude?

Fake (.)(.)!

[ELW 5]

Yes the image is a fake, there are many fake (racy) pics of Aishwarya out there.

However it is still true that complaining about a kiss on the cheek in a movie is ridiculous, and there are many worse things happening in India that the judges could concentrate on.

[chri'stina 190]

they are just HATING.

Those lawyers are just looking for Publicity, They could use that energy to help out poor women whose fighting their husband family for Dowry request, and ABUSE

And do more to help with the massive poverty...

I am not surprised the new complaint is from Bihar. But I remember watching a program on TV, some travel show, about India and when it was in Bihar, there was strange tent shows of women dancing provocatively and the men acting like crazy nasties. Yet they are complaining about a kiss on the cheek in a movie shown in their state? And yes there is worse in Bollywood movies these days. It's a publicity thing definitely.

I understand that there are cultural issues that have to be respected, like if I go to India I will not kiss my husband in public or act too affectionately, because you will stand out immediately and draw all sorts of attention to yourself if you do that. It's a big no-no.

But it irks me that there is more outrage towards kisses on cheeks than about all the homeless kids, huge slums, and other problems.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

(doing buzz-saw imitation)

Edited April 30, 2007 by CherryXS