Condom ad featuring ex-porn star Sunny Leone stokes annoy in India
Sunny Leone’s Play with adore this Navratri ad. PHOTO: @DeepakNair1991/TWITTER
AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Indian authorities tore down dozens of billboards Tuesday after a slew of complaints over an announcement depicting a former porn star compelling condoms forward of a vital Hindu festival.
The picture of Sunny Leone, a Canadian singer of Indian origin, promotion contraceptives forward of a eremite jubilee of Navratri valid too many for some in a western state of Gujarat.
The announcement facilities no picture of a condom, though stoked snub in regressive India for a aphorism “Play with adore this Navratri”.
In a created complaint, a Confederation of All India Traders indicted a condom manufacturer behind a obscene ad of holding selling “to an all-time low”.
“This is an juvenile try to boost sales by putting all a informative value during stake”, a traders organisation pronounced in a statement.
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The organisation took sold displeasure during a couple between sex and Navratri, a nine-day Hindu festival of fasting and prayer.
Local authorities in Gujarat, a home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, private a advertisements as debate mounted.
Leone is code envoy for Manforce, India’s largest condom manufacturer, and one of a many searched celebrities online.
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