Just when I thought that the Indian film industry in particular is keeping up with Western trends, I'm proven wrong.
I mean, don't get me wrong because I'm not advocating that this is the way things should be but then, in the past few years, I have seen Indian movies churned out by Bollywood in particular featuring striking resemblance to what is accepted as a norm in English movies - such as a kissing scene.
And so, with time, I figured that the Indian community has come to terms with accepting the fact that as in real life, actors in the silver screen also kiss to make a scene more believable.
But then, I'm wrong. So bloody wrong because I read here http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-12-04T144950Z_01_DEL207809_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-BOLLYWOOD-KISS.xml&WTmodLoc=OddNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-3 that a lawyer appears to have taken serious offense with a kissing scene in a hit Hindi movie between Bollywood's beauty Aishwarya Rai and hunk Hrithik Roshan.
Time and again, I hear of certain quarters being unhappy with this and that showed in a film, claiming that all these will contribute to moral decay among cultural and traditional Asian community.
Now, the pressing question is, in an increasingly free world who should be given the right to do moral policing?
And just because you are unhappy with a kissing scene in an Asian movie, would you file a legal suit?
Of course, I don't and will not question the right of the lawyer who decided to bring his unhappiness to be adjudicated by the court of law but all I'm asking is - where is this going to bring him, really?
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