hot kissing scene of kareena and shahid in hotel.

Does it really matter?

How desperate is the media? If having the Page 3 culture wasn't bad enough, the reader has to put up with sensationalism in the name of news on every tabloid, national news in print, television and the Internet.

Okay, granted not every reader buys the whole Cinema Paradiso theory, some of them want simply frivolous information on their favourite stars: choice of food, films, clothes, colours, the works.

But do you really want to know how they kiss? How much tongue? How much saliva? Borrowing from Dustin Hoffman (Midnight Cowboy), excuse my vulgarity. But seriously, at the end of 2004, no one gives a damn. People have enough emotional baggage of their own to care about these so-called demigods.

A lot of moral, legal, personal opinions have cropped in the midst of this controversy.

Here is a penny for my thoughts.

First things first, why so much hue and cry over kissing in public? Don't you see a dating or married couple doing 'it' all the time? It's a part and parcel of any 'man-woman' relationship. And, if indeed it was the aforementioned Bollywood couple, at an alleged suburban Mumbai pub, then I would like to point out one thing. What purpose does a pub really serve? Alcohol, comes the answer. So if you can have pubs for public drinking, which is technically not in the liver's best interests, how does kissing there in the dimly lit setting corrupt the gullible public?