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The world is watching Indian Kissing scandals closely. The world can understand that the public display of affection by kissing hurts Indian feelings. But we have news of complaints filed in Indian courts against the kissing scenes in the movies. Just a few days ago Aishwarya Rai was summoned by the court to explain an “obscene” kissing scene in the movie Dhoom 2.

Christian Science Monitor takes a good look at the Indian sensibilities and the controversy over the Gere-Shetty kissing. In India, a public kiss is not just a kiss is the title of the story. They interviewed people like shopkeepers, college girls and sociologists.

“Courts spend 20 years on rape cases, and here they’ve issued a warrant in weeks,” says Hardeep Singh, sitting behind the counter of his father’s shoe store.

Since Bollywood has taken the lead to break the kissing taboo so it is easily understood why the actors and actresses are becoming victim of public anger. But Bollywood refrains to take part in the debate openly as they have always tried to keep a distance from politically charged controversies. It is not good for their business, I guess. I liked what Dipankar Gupta said while explaining the Indian fury over the kissing scenes in the movies and real life.

“Two very different societies are colliding with each other,” says Dipankar Gupta, a sociologist at Jawaharlal Nehru University here. “Because of the Western influence, the changes here are not a natural evolution.”…
….After all, this is the land of the “item girl” – that would-be Bollywood star whose dancing includes everything short of a pole and a wardrobe malfunction. Yet for all her overt sexuality, the temptress is acceptably Indian. The public kiss is not.

I like Kareena Kapoor. No kidding, I really like her. You know she is the kind of person who is always willing to give a little something to little bloggers like us. I think she looks like Paris Hilton but unlike Hollywood, Bollywood doesn’t have much room for the people who are famous for being famous. Here you give a lot more than the viral mms video clips, dumping boyfriends and giving major hit almost every year.

Well there hadn’t been any new Kareena video clips for quite sometime now. She hasn’t kissed her boyfriend at a public place for at least an year or so. She is out of the Yash Raj circle and she is dating the same guy for a very long time now.

The only press Kareena gets is either her appearance on Koffee with Karan or her so called ‘guest appearances’ in some movies. Usually these guest appearances are Item numbers. The Don’s ‘Ye Mera Dil’ was a great dance number and Kareena should have stopped item numbers there, instead she decided to appear in Kya love story hai’s dance number ‘It’s Rocking’. The disgraceful part is that the song itself is quite ordinary and kya love story hai is not Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan or even Abhishek Bachchan’s movie.

So what does Kareena get? hmm may be she would get mentioned here and there but thats it. She is not going to get any more buzz around her sexyness. She has had it all and she didn’t took any advantage of it. If I were to advise Kareena about getting press attention and new projects I would advise her to ditch that boyfriend of her’s. What’s his name? Shahid Kapur? I guess?? I mean the guy is totally flop at the box office and has no value. So to rejuvenate her career, Kareena should ditch him, find herself some new guy who knows the art of being famous, get herself involved in a few scandals and consult some cosmetic surgeon to give her some thing to display during item numbers.

Remember we talked (like every body else) about the innocent Richard Gere kissing Shilpa. Well, but a court in India finds it Obscene and has issued arrest warrant for Richard Gere. While talking to Jon Stewart on the Daily show Richard Gere said:

Me kissing the girl on the cheek was nothing. There is a very small right-wing, very conservative political party in India and they are the moral police in India … they do this kind of thing quite often. I do not know of anyone who has gone to jail for something like this.

Shilpa Shetty’s spokesperson Dale Bhagwager told that Shilpa had not received any court order or summons and was currently away visiting temples. He said Shetty had not done anything wrong.

What is there to comment? They were three innocent, natural cute pecks on the cheek. What can one say, when three pecks can be made into an issue in the land of the Kama Sutra? People should concentrate on the bigger issue of Aids, rather than this.

Under the Indian law a person convicted for public obscenity may end serving up to three months in prison, a fine or both.

Shahrukh Khan may not be a living legend but he is certainly one of the most loved Indian actors ever. He has done the typical Hindi movies, romantic comedies, action movies, beautiful movies like Paheli and Swades and he has hosted KBC. People are asking now what Shahrukh is up to. Whats next? How he is going to continue his role as an entertainer in our daily lives?

He is getting older but thank god Bollywood is evolved and now there are lots of opportunities and fresh characters for every one. But apparently Shahrukh has his eyes on a different field. He wants to produce a film with amazing special effects. FX as he likes to call it, is the new challenge that Shahrukh has created for himself. In a recent interview with Subhash K. Jha, Shahrukh said:

I want to take time off with my kids, and also work on a project that’s very precious to me. I want our production company to become truly FX-savvy.

…When I am asked what next, then I guess this is what I want to do next. This is where my heart is at the moment. I want our FX to be comparable with the best in the world. Dhoom 2 and Don got it right. I want to take the optical illusions even further.

… I want to spend the next three months honing up the F-X in our production house. Have you seen films like 300 ? That’s the level of special effects we should be aiming at. And I’m going to go for it

Shahrukh Khan has some great movies. Yash Raj film’s Chak De India and Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om. Talking about Om Shanti Om Shahrukh said:

…I don’t want to be in the so-called offbeat films. I’d rather do my enjoyable stuff. Farah’s film Om Shanti Om which I’m now shooting is again a lot of fun.

Based on a previous post on Desi Galaxy, we ask our readers to vote and tell us what they think about Bachchan’s not inviting Muslims to attend Abhishek’s wedding?

In the previous poll we asked:

Do you think Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif are going to get married?

We recieved a total of 125 votes

49 out of 125 think that Salman and Katrina are really in love.
29 out of 125 voted that they are more interested in Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan wedding.
28 out of 125 thought that it is none of their business to spend time thinking about whether or not Salman and Katrina will get married.
19 out of 125 think that it is just a publicity stunt.

It has been rumored that Bachchans did not invite a single Muslim colleague or friend to attend the wedding of Abhishek Bachchan. Well they also didn’t invite a whole lot of Hindu, Sikh, Christians but surprisingly there is not even a single Muslim celebrity or politician who attended the Big Bollywood wedding. May be it is just a coincidence but what I have read about the religious activities of the Bachchans and Aishwarya Rai to remove some superstitious astrological curse, makes me believe that they are a religious family. May be they feared that a Muslim attending their pious spiritual Hindu wedding would cause them some astrological harm or would make this marriage unlucky. Or some other stupid super mythological beliefs.

We have read that, Shahrukh Khan was not invited. This guy has worked in many movies with Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. Hrithik Roshan and Rakesh Roshan were not invited. Because Hrithik’s wife is Muslim. It is rumored that the Bachchans specifically asked Mumbai police not to send any Muslim police officer to provide them security. Private security guards hired by the Bachchans were all Hindus.

Well of course it is none of anyone’s business to discuss the religious beliefs of the Bachchans. I wish that these rumors are not true. But unfortunately it seems like no matter how secular and modern India has become, no matter how people of different religions work closely, there is an integration but when the time comes to show just how integrated different Indian cultures are people prefer to remain secluded in their own religious nutshells.

With help of 103bees we get a report each week in our email box containing the questions that people asked search engines and found our website. We have previously talked about these funny bollywood queries. Last time we checked all questions were stupid MMS clips download related questions that had nothing to do with our blogging. This week we received some interesting questions. We are surprised to find out how accurately Google helped people find the answers of these questions.

This week’s most interesting question was “How many times Aishwarya Rai been married?”

We answered this question in our post titled “Aishwarya Rai - Bride of Trees“. Aishwarya Rai who is now married to Abhishek Bachchan has previously married trees to get rid of the mangalik curse.

Another question related to Aishwarya Rai and Vivek Oberoi and why the broke up. We tried to answer this question in Aishwarya Rai’s biography here at Desi Galaxy. Actually Aishwarya was never in love or a relationship with Vivek, however Vivek often expressed his love for Aishwarya. But the truth is that they never had anything beyond casual friendship.

About Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif’s wedding, well its not going to happen. Not atleast this month or in near future.

Recently we realized that there are certain news, gossip and other topics where the visitors can interact with the blog and express their opinion by simply clicking Yes or No and submit button. So we have added a plugin to organize polls on this blog. I am personally excited about this new feature as it will be showcasing the interesting information about what the visitors of this blog feel on certain issues, news items and the gossip that we blog so passionately. Every one is talking about Aishwarya and Abhishek’s marriage, with all the media hype surrounding the biggest bollywood wedding ever, our beloved Salman and his new love interest Katrina are also getting lots of press. We would like to know your opinion about Salman’s marriage plans and Katrina’s denial?