Richard Gere too Vulgar for India, Warrant for Arrest is Issued

Richard Gere is finding out that a kiss is not just a kiss when it happens in India. The Golden Globe winning actor was appearing at an HIV/AIDS awareness event in Mumbai when he kissed Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty several times on the cheek sparking outrage among citizens who believed the act violated the country’s public obscenity laws.

Now Gere, 57, along with Shetty, 31, are subjects of a court issued arrest warrant for what has been deemed an act that “transgressed all limits of vulgarity.”

So outraged were some citizens that they took to the streets to burn effigies of Gere while one man actually filed a legal complaint which led to the arrest warrant being issued.

Whether or not Gere responds to the warrant is unknown but he could face three months in prison and fines for the kiss. Shetty, a highly regarded actress in the Bollywood film industry, was born in India and has been ordered to appear in court May 5.

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