Aishwarya targeted in kissing row

PATNA: Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai has been summoned to explain an �obscene� kissing scene, Indian officials said on Saturday, just days after a similar row engulfed Hollywood�s Richard Gere. Rai, who married into the Indian film industry�s most famous family last week, was ordered to appear before a district court over a scene in which she is kissed lightly on the cheek. Her �Dhoom-II� co-star Hrithik Roshan and the owners of a cinema which screened the action film have also been summoned to Muzaffarpur court in the eastern state of Bihar on May 30. �The court also sent notices to the Bihar government for allowing screening of the film despite its �obscene� content,� a court official said. He said the judge handed out the orders after a lawyer argued the film �offended public sensibility.� The 33-year-old Rai has not responded to the court order, government officials said in the state capital Patna. The summons came after a district court in another state issued arrest warrants for Gere and Indian actress Shilpa Shetty, whom he kissed enthusiastically at an HIV/AIDS awareness show this month in New Delhi.