Condom ad featuring ex-**** star Sunny Leone stokes anger in India

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Condom ad featuring ex-**** star Sunny Leone stokes anger in India
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Published: September 19, 2017
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Sunny Leone's Play with love this Navratri ad. PHOTO: @DeepakNair1991/TWITTER

AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Indian authorities tore down dozens of billboards Tuesday after a slew of complaints over an advertisement depicting a former **** star promoting condoms ahead of a major Hindu festival.

The image of Sunny Leone, a Canadian actress of Indian origin, advertising contraceptives ahead of the religious celebration of Navratri proved too much for some in the western state of Gujarat.

The advertisement features no image of a condom, but stoked outrage in conservative India for its slogan “Play with love this Navratri”.

In a written complaint, the Confederation of All India Traders accused the condom manufacturer behind the risque ad of taking marketing “to an all-time low”.

“This is an immature attempt to boost sales by putting all our cultural value at stake”, the traders group said in a statement.

Hundreds flood Kochi streets to catch a glimpse of Sunny Leone

The group took particular umbrage at the link between sex and Navratri, a nine-day Hindu festival of fasting and prayer.

Local authorities in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, removed the advertisements as controversy mounted.

Leone is brand ambassador for Manforce, India’s largest condom manufacturer, and one of its most searched celebrities online.


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[Baby Leone]

Hope she will be alive or have already left india.

 

[Viny]

Hope she will be alive or have already left india.

Dont you worry this is India and this is attack on Hinduism culture.
Some other country, some other religion then i am sure even company would have to run for its life.

Yes, Manforce went wrong way and too far and thats why the Trade association took a step against it. **** star endorsing a condom act is not an issue..there are plenty of condom packets having explicit photos of **** stars. Issue is that they are trying prove a religious affair that has dance and lots of fun is same as some rave parties.

 

[gangsta_rap]

WHATS A CONDOM!?!?!?

 

[El Sidd]

Everything just has to be a controversy in India.

Strange bunch of identity crisis societies living in a country as diverse as Africa. Feeble and without a narrative.

 

[doe33]

Religions are behind all madness..
BTW religious values shouldn't be linked up with such things as few people have their sentiments attached to it.Better avoid.

 

[Peshwa]

Everything just has to be a controversy in India.

Strange bunch of identity crisis societies living in a country as diverse as Africa. Feeble and without a narrative.

Show me a country that is devoid of controversy.

 

[Imran Khan]

WHATS A CONDOM!?!?!?

go to shop and ash him

mery shezaady ke liye sherwaani dikhao

 

[El Sidd]

Show me a country that is devoid of controversy.

This is an unwanted controversy which can only happen in extremist society.

 

[Peshwa]

go to shop and ash him

mery shezaady ke liye sherwaani dikhao

HAHA!
Literally was the most embarrassing thing as a teenager, walking into a pharmacy in India to ask for condoms.
All heads would turn immediately and the judgy eyes would burn a hole through the back of your head...

Had an easier time scoring charas than I had buying condoms..lol

 

[doe33]

Hope she will be alive or have already left india.

Like Qandeel Baloch or Kismat Baig?
Don't worry it would not be more than a FIR at extreme or a apology tweet.
Nobody is gonna attack or blow up their offices.

 

[nang2]

Hold on. By looking at that billboard, I cannot tell if she is that kind of star. I wonder how those who protested could tell.

 

[Peshwa]

This is an unwanted controversy which can only happen in extremist society.

Yes you're right, extremists often tend to write letters to show their displeasure towards events they consider morally degrading.
In fact Ive heard that the Taliban routinely circulate letters to Pak Govt. before they blow themselves up in the market or stone a woman for adultery.

 

[WhyCry]

This is an unwanted controversy which can only happen in extremist society.

like killing if not treating bunch of papers right.

Hold on. By looking at that billboard, I cannot tell if she is that kind of star. I wonder how those who protested could tell.

Because there is no censorship

 

[El Sidd]

Yes you're right, extremists often tend to right letters to show their displeasure towards events they consider morally degrading.
In fact Ive heard that the Taliban routinely circulate letters to Pak Govt. before they blow themselves up in the market or stone a woman for adultery.

They could have.

But you are 7 times bigger and most affected country of terrorism.

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