Army furious at ‘bollywood babes’ advertisement

[notsuperstitious]

As far as I know Preeti Zinta's father served in IA

So the ad wants to show that your child can be successful too like these girls with parents having IA background

they should have done the ad in better way though, explaining IA background of parents/relatives of these women

Buddy it is all pretty clear, even the backgrounds - all of them army. Some indians don't have a sense of humor and pakistanis here are just being adequate to the occassion of a news item about indian army.

Look at this as a way of celebrating successful army daughters. At the very least, there's nothing offensive about it.

 

[Huda]

The Add doesnt sound tharkism driven but more focused on econmoic aspects of joining army though they have to lace it with words like beautiful daughters instead of future miss world

Poor indians maybe they all want gud looking daughters and joining army is the only way

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Lol... bewakoufi ki inteha hoti hai!

 

[Huda]

Lol... bewakoufi ki inteha hoti hai!

T0u ap inse kuch aur b expect krte ho

 

[Alpha1]

Lol... bewakoufi ki inteha hoti hai!

bro mayri to hunsi hi nai ruk rahi

 

[My-Analogous]

Good News for Pakistan army, now we can have army in laws after tennis in laws

 

[Slav Defence]

“If you want to have beautiful and successful daughters, join Indian Army”.

How, do you get free supply of fair'n lovely in your quota.

Wouldn't go down too well with Indian Air Force and Navy. !!

lol @Windjammer WINDY i don't even understand....how Indian army will beautify their daughters??

 

[My-Analogous]

lol @Windjammer WINDY i don't even understand....how Indian army will beautify their daughters??

Simple they have separate brigade for that

 

[Marshmallow]

... @Talon, @Marshmallow @Mirzay wanna say something ?

yes cuz Army thinks Pakistani girls r more beautiful than bollywood girls so its not fair to put bollywood girls pix everywhere

 

[Gandhi G in da house]

I find it funny . It was supposed ot be funny and not meant to be taken seriously

Just because they are in the army does not mean , they can't have a lil fun.

 

[janon]

As @fateh71 says, it was OBVIOUSLy meant as a tongue-in-cheek ad. Does anybody think that they were claiming it as a literal truth, that joining the army gets one beautiful and succesful daughters by default? Or that that would be on the minds of the teenagers joining the army, of having beautiful daughters in future?

It can be criticized on the grounds of being patronising to women and slightly anti-feministic. But seriously, if anybody thinks that this was meant as a real claim to increase recruitment, is seriously underestimating the intelligence of people who sign up for the armed forces.

But hey - its given a chance for lots of pakistanis to laugh mindlessly over a non-issue, by missing out the toungue-in-cheek humor provided and intead scoff and mock and ridicule. Laughing through mockery and ridicule is more satisfying for some people than laughing in good humour.

To everyone who doesn't get it: The ad may have been a tad insensitive to women, but nowhere near what other advertisements in various media are. The ad may also have displayed a touch of light heartedness that is usually alien to the affairs of the armed forces and the government of India. But solemnity and seriousness is not cast in stone for them, is it?

So if you want to keep laughing at them, by all means do so. The joke is on you, for not realizing that it was tongue-in-cheek, and not meant to be taken as a statement of fact, and definitely not meant as a real motivational tool for young aspiring soldiers.

But none of these considerations should stop the trolls from doing what they do best, so...

 

[Spring Onion]

As @fateh71 says, it was OBVIOUSLy meant as a tongue-in-cheek ad. Does anybody think that they were claiming it as a literal truth, that joining the army gets one beautiful and succesful daughters by default? Or that that would be on the minds of the teenagers joining the army, of having beautiful daughters in future?

It can be criticized on the grounds of being patronising to women and slightly anti-feministic. But seriously, if anybody thinks that this was meant as a real claim to increase recruitment, is seriously underestimating the intelligence of people who sign up for the armed forces.

But hey - its given a chance for lots of pakistanis to laugh mindlessly over a non-issue, by missing out the toungue-in-cheek humor provided and intead scoff and mock and ridicule. Laughing through mockery and ridicule is more satisfying for some people than laughing in good humour.

To everyone who doesn't get it: The ad may have been a tad insensitive to women, but nowhere near what other advertisements in various media are. The ad may also have displayed a touch of light heartedness that is usually alien to the affairs of the armed forces and the government of India. But solemnity and seriousness is not cast in stone for them, is it?

So if you want to keep laughing at them, by all means do so. The joke is on you, for not realizing that it was tongue-in-cheek, and not meant to be taken as a statement of fact, and definitely not meant as a real motivational tool for young aspiring soldiers.

But none of these considerations should stop the trolls from doing what they do best, so...

Dear Indian if at all what you had said in above post was all about the add then why Indian army is angry at it?

why din They take it as Toungue-in-CHEEK humour

 

[janon]

Dear Indian if at all what you had said in above post was all about the add then why Indian army is angry at it?

why din They take it as Toungue-in-CHEEK humour

I knew this would be the next question.

The army being "furious" part is only in thhe headline of this news item. It is not a statement from the army. The relevanant sentence in the article:

The officers in the recruiting centre had not taken permission for placing the billboard and were pulled up for this act, Army sources said.

That is what they were pulled up for. For a procedural issue, that they did not take prior permission. Nowhere does the article say that the army is angry for the CONTENT of the ad.

Now why was this particular ad pulled down? Because it went around in the social media, and many people took it literally and began ridiculing the army for believing that joining the army would get you beautiful daughters. Whoever made that ad should have remembered that there are plenty of idiots on the social media, who cannot see tongue-in-cheek ads for what they are. There are even websites claiming that the Indian army is encouraging incest.

Because of the sudden negative publicity, and because the army cannot cure people's stupidity, it did the easiest thing, which was to take down the ad.

But hey...don't let any of this stop anyone. Sure, continue believing that the army was actually suggesting it as literal truth, and using it to motivate soldiers to sign up, by promising beautiful daughters. What can I say!

(Other than what I sad before.)

 

[Tshering22]

The Army should be pissed off at one and only one entity that is the MOD. Instead it is focusing on bullcrap like this. Even the US Army campaigns with girls like that in fact in a more provocative manner. People there take it in light humor and those who want to join the Army, join regardless of any babes there or not.

Really.

 

[RazorMC]

The design seems like a magazine cutout or something.
I doubt the IA would have put this up.

Maybe an IA fan with something for military-background babes ??