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Friday, December 17, 2004
Wag the tongue
In a matter of such national importance as the alleged kiss between Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapur, how could you expect the Supreme Court to stay silent? While discussing a case pertaining to the section of the penal code that deals with media reportage of public figures, a Supreme Court bench said that the pictures and Kapoor and Kapur were in bad taste. PTI reports that the judges said: “That cannot be in public good. In the name of public good, the media might go on doing whatever it intended to do.”
In this instance, I agree with the Supreme Court. As I said in my earlier post on this subject, the pictures were neither newsworthy nor even aesthetic – they were lewd sensationalism of the most frivolous kind. That doesn’t, of course, mean that Kapoor and Kapur have a legal case against Mid Day. They won’t come out entirely as the wronged party if it is proved that their denials were lies, and it was them in the pictures. In fact, it is now being rumoured that Kapur might have known about the pictures beforehand, and that he allegedly called up Tariq Ansari, Mid Day’s director, to try and kill the story.
Maybe they’ll kiss and make up. Maybe we’ll get to see those pictures as well.
Update (December 18) - Mid Day issues a clarification.
In this instance, I agree with the Supreme Court. As I said in my earlier post on this subject, the pictures were neither newsworthy nor even aesthetic – they were lewd sensationalism of the most frivolous kind. That doesn’t, of course, mean that Kapoor and Kapur have a legal case against Mid Day. They won’t come out entirely as the wronged party if it is proved that their denials were lies, and it was them in the pictures. In fact, it is now being rumoured that Kapur might have known about the pictures beforehand, and that he allegedly called up Tariq Ansari, Mid Day’s director, to try and kill the story.
Maybe they’ll kiss and make up. Maybe we’ll get to see those pictures as well.
Update (December 18) - Mid Day issues a clarification.
