Reacting to the recent Shahid-Kareena episode, TV artiste Annu Kapoor has opined that emergence of a person as a public figure makes him or her responsible to full attention to social decorum.

''However, Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor didn't even have the courage to acknowledge their relations as they trashed the pictures showing them kissing each other as 'fake','' he said here during an interaction with media last evening.

Regarding the underworld's influence over the film industry, Kapoor felt that the gangland's infiltration was consequent to persons desirous of earning quick money and fame.

''Thanks to the government's efforts, the underworld's interference has almost been stamped out,'' he claimed.

Maintaining that television was a powerful medium with potential to bring about a social revolution, the actor considered it unfortunate that TV was being ''misused, in a manner of speaking. ''By proper use of TV, social awareness can be enhanced but vulgar and obscene programmes are beamed instead. Producers and viewers are equally responsible for this. I don't take part in any programme that contains obscenity, never indulged in obscene comedy in any movie or mouthed vulgar lines,'' he claimed.

He quoted the example of the Aamir Khan-starrer 'Lagaan' that ''had a rural backdrop but no vulgar or objectionable aspect.