Shilpa Shetty arrested over Richard Gere kiss
Even 5 months later, Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty is still feeling the effects of a kiss from Richard Gere.
Immigration 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.
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Shetty 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.
Gere 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.
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Shetty, a well-known actress in India, became an international star after her appearance on the British reality show “Celebrity Big Brother.”