Crazy Is as Crazy Does: Shilpa Shetty Speaks Out Against ‘Lunatic Fringe’
May 7th, 2007 by dd
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty blamed India’s “lunatic fringe” for an uproar over enthusiastic kisses bestowed on her by Richard Gere at an AIDS charity event.
An Indian court last week issued a warrant of arrest for Gere on charges of “obscene” behavior after the televised embrace in which the star bent Shetty backward on stage and kissed her repeatedly.
The incident triggered a public storm in India, known for its chaste public behavior despite Bollywood’s sexually suggestive song-and-dance routines.
But Shetty, 31, who is in Australia to promote her latest film, said the kisses have been “blown out of all proportion” and Gere “was just being very sweet.”
“The media tends to get slightly irresponsible at times but that’s the price one has to pay for celebrity,” Shetty said, “The majority of Indians don’t feel that way. It was the lunatic fringe that took over.
In Sydney to promote her film Life in A … Metro, Shetty said the scandal has been good for her new movie. “It’s great timing,” she said. “Hopefully, people will now be interested to see what I actually do.” [Standard]
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