Pooja Bhatt slams brand for withdrawing advertisement featuring lesbian couple – Times of India

Filmmaker-actor Pooja Bhatt expressed disappointment and slammed a brand for withdrawing their advertisement about a lesbian couple. Recently, a fairness bleach cream advertisement featuring a same-sex couple celebrating Karwa Chauth faced massive backlash on social media and the brand decided to withdraw the commercial.

Slamming the move, Pooja Bhatt tweeted, “Bas yahi karte raho (keep doing this).. slam, bam, ban! So much for being the ‘Mother’ of democracy! Pity a giant like #Dabur refused to stand behind their AD. While I don’t endorse a fairness cream in principal I reserved my comment as they attempted to celebrate Inclusivity & #PRIDE So why hide now?”

Recently, Pooja Bhatt’s sister Alia Bhatt courted controversy for one of her advertisements. The actress played a bride in a commercial and questioned the practice of ‘kanyadaan’ (giving one’s daughter away) at a wedding. Kangana Ranaut had slammed the ad and shared, “We often see a Martyr’s father on television when they loose a son on the border they roar don’t worry I have one more son, uska bhi daan main iss dharti Maa ko dunga… Kanyadaan ho ya putradaan (I will give him away for the protection of Mother Earth. Be it giving away one’s daughter or son)… The way a society looks at the concept of (lack of equivalent word in English or Urdu using) renunciation shows it’s core value system… When they start to look down upon the very idea of daan (charity/donation)… Then you know it is time for reestablishment of Ram Rajya…. The king who renounced everything he ever loved only to live the life of a Tapasvi (monk) Please stop mocking Hindus and their rituals…. Dharti (Earth) and woman both are mothers in scriptures they are worshipped as goddesses of fertility…. Nothing wrong in seeing them as precious and very source of existence (shakti).” She had further added, “Humble request to all brands ….. don’t use religion, minority, majority politics to sell things …. Stop manipulating naive consumer with shrewd divisive concepts and advertising.”