You just can't miss this kiss

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="31.2%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:=""><object id="MediaPlayer" width="180" height="180" classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,5,715" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..." type="application/x-oleobject"> <param name="FileName" value="http://info.indiatimes.com/it/K.asf"> <param name="AnimationatStart" value="true"> <param name="TransparentatStart" value="false"> <param name="AutoStart" value="true"> <param name="ShowControls" value="1"> <param name="ShowStatusBar" value="1"> <param name="autoSize" value="false"> <embed type="application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=windows&sbp=mediaplayer&ar=Media&sba=Plugin&" src="http://info.indiatimes.com/it/K.asf" name="MediaPlayer" showcontrols="1" width="360" height="180" /></param></param></param></param></param></param></param></object> </span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Dear, dear Bollywood and its denizens.<br /><br />Just when you think that the tinsel towners are growing up — what with some of them actually coming out and confessing to their lurve affairs rather than the hackneyed ''we are good friends'' — someone kisses, is ''caught'', denies and its back to the same ''holier-than-thou'' game. <br /><br />If you haven''t read/heard about it already, here goes the ''latest breaking news''. The Kapur and Kapoor lovebirds (Shahid-Kareena) were reportedly kissing at a Mumbai restaurant, were caught on camera (presumably a camera phone, one more down to MMS) and are now denying everything from puckering up to even being at the restaurant. <br /><br />Along with denying, the two are also demanding an ''unconditional'' apology (as opposed to a conditional apology being something to the effect of "I am sorry if...� just an after thought). <br /><br />Kareena is also apparently claiming Rs 20 crore damages for loss of reputation. <br /><br />All this over an innocent kiss (ignoring the darting tongue for now)?<br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="0" width="36.5%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" ffffff=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/960931.cms" alt="/photo/960931.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">On one hand, Bollywood declares smooching scenes in movie are aesthetical and important because they are a reflection of what is happening in society. <br /><br />The most popular refrain being, ''Couples kiss in real life; we are just portraying that.''<br /><br />On the other hand, two Bollywood ''stars'' who have publicly declared they are in love are photographed kissing and then go about denying it. <br /><br />One can try and empathise with the ''breach of privacy'' issue. But then one wonders, privacy in a public place? <br /><br />So if you are kissing in a restaurant - a very public place, the public will see you kissing. It will see you kissing if you are a star and it will see you kissing if you are not a star. <br /><br />We can understand when Kareena says that the pictures were an ''embarrassment'' — you are watching the late night news with your folks and suddenly there are pictures of you smooching your beau. <br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></div> <div class="Normal" style="" text-align:="" center=""><img src="/photo/960936.cms" alt="/photo/960936.cms" border="0" /></div> <div class="Normal"><br />One can also understand two young people receiving flak from elders back home and therefore saying, "We didn''t do it." <br /><br />But what happens when the same ''kids from respectable families'' lock lips on the screen (older sis Karisma in <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Raja Hindustani </span>and Kareena with Fardeen Khan in <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">Dev</span>)? <br /><br />If it is alright to show kissing on screen — demands of script, reality, etc - why such a big deal about being photographed kissing? Or is it that respectability only rests for the moolah?<br /><br />Let''s forget that too for a while. Shahid, in a television interview went on to say that they had "never kissed in the restaurant or anywhere else". <br /><br />Give us a break please. It is alright for a couple to kiss, especially today when things are much more out-in-the-open. <br /><br />Now to come to entire questionability of the situation — were the couple shown kissing actually Kareena and Shahid? <br /><br />According to the Mumbai tabloid, yes they were and they apparently have a video clip to prove it. According to Kareena, it was not them and she would "fight for her dignity". <br /><br />For now, one can wait and watch... but if at all it was the two, we say, Kapur and Kapoor turn your back to the world, say "yes it was us, and so what?" and walk off into the sunset.</div> </div>