Richard Gere is in hot water in India for kissing their popular Bollywood actress, Shilpa Shetty! 

((ANGRY crowds in several Indian cities burned effigies of Richard Gere yesterday after he swept a popular Bollywood actress, Shilpa Shetty into his arms and kissed her several times during an AIDS-awareness event.

Photographs of Richard Gere embracing Shilpa Shetty and kissing her on the cheek at an HIV/AIDS awareness event in New Delhi were splashed across yesterday’s front pages in India – a country where sex and public displays of affection are largely taboo.