{"id":3479,"date":"2007-09-27T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gere-kiss-still-a-problem-for.html"},"modified":"2007-09-27T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T17:35:00","slug":"gere-kiss-still-a-problem-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/gere-kiss-still-a-problem-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Gere kiss still a problem for Shilpa Shetty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe this poor actress<\/a> is suffering because of Gere’s kiss on stage at an AIDS awareness event. I posted the video here<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n

Five months later, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere.
\nImmigration officials at Mumbai airport briefly detained Shetty, saying she was still wanted for obscenity charges filed in the wake of the public kiss with the Hollywood star, her publicist, Dale Bhagwagar, said Thursday.
\nShetty was in tears late Wednesday after being stopped at the airport while on her way to Berlin where the musical “Miss Bollywood” opens this weekend, said Bhagwagar. Shetty plays the musical’s lead role.
\n“She called me in the middle of the night and was in tears,” said Bhagwagar, adding Shetty was finally permitted to join her dance troupe after prolonged questioning.
\n“I can understand something like this if I’d committed a criminal offense. But what was my offense, when I’m just an actor, going to perform a musical on foreign land,” Bhagwagar quoted Shetty saying.
\nGere embraced and kissed Shetty on her cheek at a public AIDS awareness event in New Delhi in April, sparking an outcry among conservative hardline Hindus, who claimed the pair had violated the country’s strict anti-obscenity laws.
\nA regional court issued arrest warrants against Gere and barred Shetty from leaving the country. The order was soon overturned by the Supreme Court.
\nBut the Supreme Court ruling didn’t show up in the immigration department computer system, Bhagwagar said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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