Desi Galaxy

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.

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.

Poor Richard Gere he didn’t know that kissing someone is such a big issue in India. And kissing someone in public is a horrible act. The controversy sparked when Richard Gere kissed Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty during an AIDS HIV awareness rally.

Some Hindu fundamentalist parties hijacked the issue, claiming that Richard’s kissing was vulgar. They organized protests in Mumbai shouting “death to Shilpa Shetty”.

Shilpa Shetty dismissed the public criticism by saying:

What he did was very sweet. It was all in good humour, He especially told me to tell the media that he didn’t want to hurt any Indian sensibilities. I am happy that this has happened because at least now people will talk about the issue of Aids and HIV.

Richard surely didn’t know the sensibilities of macho Indian society where all Indian men want all Indian women for themselves. A Gora kissing their big brother winner is disgusting. However, if the same gora or even if some desi had kissed Shilpa on screen then they would have loved it. Kissing to Indian society is something so special and fantastic that they can not see it happening in real, under broad daylight.

I remember watching Main Hon Na and there was this sweet girl Mini who was addicted to applying lipstick on her lips. Her role was short but as a performer she did a great job.

Unfortunately she went un noticed and didn’t get much work afterwards. So the poor girl decided to do things that could bring her some fame, and work. She appeared in the item songs. Modern mujra videos, wearing revealing outfits and exposing her body parts. She got involved with music videos, these garam masala videos has made her the sex bomb about to explode. She then appeared in the Big Boss reality show. She filed a police complain against pop singer Mika for sexual harrassment. Kolhapur police registered a case against her on obscenity charges after a stage performance in the town. She is brave, out spoken and has a wild sense of humor.

Her father is a police officer who went mad on her for exposing her cleavage. But her Mother Usha and Brother Rakesh are cool with her career choice. In fact she even worked in a movie directed by her brother “Hot Money” in 2006. She appeared wearing even shorter skirts and showed her body like she never did before. She said “I was wearing these costumes for every one’s item songs why not for my brother?”. Some bindas Babe she is.

She also donates and openly supports organizations such as Hriday Mitra Foundation, and PETA. She performed for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) by appearing in a cage wearing the make up of a tigress. Below are some pictures of Rakhi Sawant:

Vimla Patil over at South Asia Women’s Forum asks this question:

Is Bollywood debauchery encouraging adultery in our society?

Vimla is quite confused here. First of all I can not understand why she thinks that the adulterous relationship between Saif and Rosa was the reason behind Saif-Amrita divorce. She claims to know it all, she knows that Aamir Khan’s marriage ended because he was committing adultery with Kiran Rao and Akshay Kumar has adulterous linkages with Kangana Ranaut. I feel that the main reason behind the tragic endings of celebrity marriages is work environment, jealousy and negative press. Adultery is probably the most common reason behind broken marriages all over the world, not just Bollywood. But there are many things behind the news headlines that we people don’t know about these celebrities. We don’t know about their domestic lives.

I don’t know what Vimla thinks about Bollywood, but I think that Bollywood is just a popular name for Indian film industry. You can not say that Bollywood is encouraging adultery. It is just a coincidence that these men work there. She begins her article by quoting Billy Crystal saying, “Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place!”.

The adultry was there in Indian culture, even before Bollywood. I agree that movies have a potential to influence popular culture. But I don’t think that movies can change people’s nature. It is Men’s nature to lust, they would go for it even if Bollywood discourages them. There are many couples who work in entertainment industry and are happily married since years. Why look further, we have examples of Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bahduri, Shahrukh Khan and Gauri, Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan and Suzzane Khan. They are all living like normal couples. But blaming Bollywood for something that is already so common every where is totally baseless.

Movie industry in Pakistan is nearly dead now. With the movie industry’s death there is no room and work for illiterate, incompetent, B-grade female dancers in Lollywood (Lahore based Pakistani film industry). But there is a growing market for Pakistani Mujras all over the world.

Literally a Mujra is presentation of a poem, a song or a ghazal combined with classical or semi classical musical instruments and performed by a female courtesan. But since the courtesan culture is almost dead now, Mujras now refer to cheap dances designed to penetrate sexual desire among male audiences. Organizing such Mujra in Pakistan is illegal but still somehow these dancers find organizers for their shows and arrange their performances on stage in Punjab, Pakistan’s largest province. Recently government took strict action against such mujra shows and banned the theaters organizing such events. But the Mujras has found an alternate in Digital format. Available easily every where in Pakistan.

Nargis, khushboo and Mahnoor are some popular Mujra dancers. Their Mujra videos are available not only on CDs and DVDs but also on the web. Searching for Pakistani mujra, Lahori Mujra, Multani mujra or just the mujra would take you to sites offering downloads of the mujra video clips. I don’t think that mujras could be classified as porn since in most cases there is only female performer showing her upper body parts or shaking their bodies crazily. They are funny, sexy and some people find them erotic, porn or not but they are highly popular among Pakistanis and Desi men who are always looking for hot new desi mujra.

Pakistani entertainment industry has lots of jobs in television but these performers are incompetent to grab work on TV. Also the monetory benefits are huge. Performing in a Mujra CD for 50 to 100 thousand Pakistanis Rupees is just one day long job requiring the only talent of being shameless and pert. Thats easy money for these girls who never had a chance to earn proper education. The only education they have is the training they recieved in their red light district neighborhoods like Shahi Mohalla, Hera Mandi or Ghanta Ghar of Multan to entertain male desires and get a benefit out of it.

A whole lot of people visit this website in search of MMS Clips of Indian actress, school and college girls. Shot by mobile camera phones, these mms clips are available on internet on several sites for download. Sometimes these clips alledgly show school and college girls, house wives, working women from different Indian cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, etc. There are also MMS clips of Mallika Sherawat, Preity Zinta, Kareena Kapoor, Riya Sen, Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai and Sania Mirza.

Most mms clips featuring Indian actress or models are fake. Like there is an MMS clip showing some model who looks like Preity Zinta taking shower nude. The model in this clip doesn’t really look like Preity Zinta but still someone took advantage of the buzz. But also there are some real MMS clips like kareena-shahid MMS clip showing the couple kissing each other or Ashmit Patel and Riya Sen MMS clip. Riya Sen blamed Ashmit Patel for leaking the clip out.

These MMS clips has sparked the debate to combat cyber crimes in India. The girls shown in such clips are usually unaware that they are getting filmed by someone. Like recently, a police complain filed by Hetal Gandhi, a resident of Srinath Society of Kalol about an objectionable MMS clip of her was allegedly filmed and circulated. The girl said that the MMS clip, which showed her nude, affected her marriage. Gandhi claimed that the MMS clip was shot against her consent and was used to blackmail her.

In the Indian State of Jharkand, the police has sent a request to local government for setting up a special cell to combat hi-tech and cyber crimes. The State government refused the proposal. Nearly six months ago an MMS scandal rocked the Regional Institute of Technology in Namokom, Ranchi. Two boys allegedly prepared a three-minute MMS clip of a girl and circulated it among students. But the police failed to act due to manpower shortage.

It all started with the DPS MMS clip which showed a DPS RK Puram school girl in 3gp format video clip. Some one on eBay provided the dps mms download for a fee. People downloaded this video clip and circulated it around and soon the “dps dhamaka” video clip was on every teenager’s computer and mobile phones. The debate on media and the pressure on local authorities to curb down on such scandals resulted into further popularity of these videos. Now the net is flooded with adult video clips of desi girls. There is no evidence whether these Girls are models or regular girls who didn’t know that these clips would be circulated around this way.

MMS clips also sparked a trend of videos clips showing wadrobe malfunctions during Lakme India Fashion weak. The video clips of Carol Gracias, Gauhar Khan and Nigar Khan are also in circulation as MMS clips and also available on the internet.

Well you must have read about the Mallika Sherwat’s performance at J.W. Marriot Hotel in Mumbai. A 49 year old businessman cum social activist Vinod Jain has sued Mallika for obsenity. You can read Vinod Jain’s interview on Mallika is caught pulling down the trouser of a man and the man appears quite embrassed about that. There are Millions of men who would love to get their trousers pulled away by Sherawat, but unfortunately that night became nightmare for Malika because it seems like that this unknown man is already on the list of Mr. Vinod’s list of witnesses and most probably he is going to tell the court that Malika attempted to molest and seduce him in front of a huge crowd.