Sanjana Sanghi Slaps Co-Star In An Ad 8 Times, Receives Huge Backlash For Promoting Violence Against Men
Sanjana Sanghi's Latest Ad Draws Major Backlash
Updated : December 10, 2020 01:25 PM IST
An ad featuring Dil Bechara actress Sanjana Sanghi has landed in trouble for promoting violence against men. The actress and the makers of the ad have been receiving flak online for showing her slapping a man 8 times.
The ad is for a new OTT platform and Sanjana and her co-star are shown struggling to pick what to watch, when he asks her she slaps him 8 times till he tells her to stop and she decides they’d watch the eighth film on the app. The idea was to show how one can avoid doing ‘crazy things’ to select what to watch by downloading the app.
Actress Pooja Bedi reacted to the ad saying she’s absolutely horrified and that it should never have cleared the advertising board. In a tweet Pooja wrote, Absolutely HORRIFIED 2 watch this advt. Domestic violence against men is NOT acceptable. What if a man was slapping a woman in this advt? This should NEVER CLEAR an advertising board! #men have rights!
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Absolutely HORRIFIED 2 watch this advt. Domestic violence against men is NOT acceptable. What if a man was slapping a woman in this advt? This should NEVER CLEAR an advertising board! #men have rights! #domesticviolence@sharmarekha @smritiirani @DeepikaBhardwaj @amitdeshmra https://t.co/9yph7VMuAw
— Pooja Bedi (@poojabeditweets) December 9, 2020
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Imagine the guy slapping the girl to decide which tv show to watch. Violence against men also is an offence!! @ascionline please take notice of this advertisement
— Prithvi Burgula (@PrithviBurgula) December 8, 2020
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Update | #SanjanaSanghi has deleted this Ad from her Instagram account
— Men’s Day Out (@MensDayOutIndia) December 7, 2020
ASCI has reverted they are in process of evaluating several complaints sent in this matter#LionsgatePlay @lionsgateplayIN https://t.co/ZzbWNGPF01
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Imagine the guy slapping the girl to decide which tv show to watch. Violence against men also is an offence!! @ascionline please take notice of this advertisement
— Prithvi Burgula (@PrithviBurgula) December 8, 2020
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Complaint raised against Lionsgate Play for breaching Advertising Standards Council of India guidelines and promoting and trivialising violence against men #DomesticViolenceOnMen #Shame @sanjanasanghi96 for promoting it pic.twitter.com/OXcvNQSNw5
— Jithu Mohan (@JithuMo10673413) December 6, 2020
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Like seriously !! What were the makers thinking...?? Such synical approach to promote.. this should go down immediately..No kind of voilence is appreciated.
— Ritika Majumdar (@RitikaMajumdar3) December 9, 2020
Reaction from several other users on Twitter followed saying that if the tables were turned the ad would never have seen the light of the day. The makers or Sanjana Sanghi herself are yet to react to the massive backlash the ad has been getting but deleted the ad.