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Perhaps the most beautiful expression in the world, for when two lips lock, there is a direct link between the hearts. And to top it all, the kiss is even said to be an export from our own desi culture!
We compile the special moments when a kiss made us sit up and take notice – from the controversial to the simply sweet. Some of these kisses have a story to tell, the rest are just delicious.
Former tennis champions and life partners Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf kiss just before they take on former Tim Henman and Kim Clijsters in a mixed doubles exhibition tennis match to showcase the moveable roof installed on the Wimbledon court complex. After all, how many couples get to kiss on the holy soil of Tennis?
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Adrian Brody sweeps Halle Berry off her feet as he accepts the best actor Oscar for ‘The Pianist’. |
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Supermodel Naomi Campbell kisses Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin. So what’s unusual about thaT
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Ellen DeGeneres shares a passionate kisses with partner Portia de Rossi after winning an Emmy for outstanding talk show host for her ‘The Ellen Degeneres Show’. |
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Rocker Gene Simmons looks stunned as two women kiss onstage during the 2008 MTV Latin Video Music Awards in Guadalajara, Mexico. A visual expression of his band ‘Kiss’, perhaps! |
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While still on desis, Cristiano Ronaldo picked a desi babe for his Lisbon escapade, at the unveiling of New 7 wonders of the world. Bipasha Basu and her associates still maintain this is not a kiss! Illusion or the 8th wonder? |
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Down to Desi shores, the HIV-AIDS awareness event in New Delhi in 2007 ensured Shilpa Shetty lived up to her tag of controversy’s favourite desi babe. Hollywood star Richard Gere literally swept her off her feet in what may have been a harmless gesture. Of course, the moral police cried foul. |
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Pop princess Britney Spears planted a wet one on Madonna during the MTV Video Music Awards at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Plus, we were in for a repeat performance at the NRJ awards the very next year. |
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Another one for art: Sean Lennon kisses his girlfriend, model Charlotte Kemp Muhl, during the inauguration ceremony of the 53rd Biennale International Art Exhibition in Venice |
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This is one kiss that'll be stored for eternity. Artist Charlie Murphy (unseen) is timing this couple as they kiss with dental alginate in their mouths to form a mould of their kiss, at The Science Museum's Dana Centre in London. The mould will soon be transformed into a glass sculpture |
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis kisses actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger while receiving the "Courage To Care" award at the Noche De Ninos benefit gala in Beverly Hills. The original Terminator on full charge, we'd say! |
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Ignatas Konovalovas of Lithuania gets kissed by the race's hostesses after winning the final stage of the Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race. Some guys have all the luck! |
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One from Hollywood...Halle Berry kisses presenter Jamie Foxx as she is presented with the Decade of Hotness Award at the Spike TV "Guys Choice" awards |
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Now this one is historic! This balcony is part of the house of Juliet - where, legend has it, Romeo wooed the young maiden under her balcony! A Shakespearian expression of love! |
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And some kisses say 'Thank you': Johnny Harris of Salt Lake City gets a thank you kiss from "Beneatha Serta" of the "Utah Cyber Sluts" after helping her get up after falling off a bicycle at the Utah Pride Parade in downtown Salt Lake City |
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Tyler Frost gets a goodbye kiss from his girlfriend Rebecca Smoody in Findlay, Ohio, in a parking lot across from Heritage Christian School. Frost was suspended from the school for attending the prom at Findlay High School with Smoody this past Saturday. The fundamentalist Baptist school in northwest Ohio forbids dancing, rock music and hand holding. And we thought we Indians were the worst in moral policing! |