Calcutta High Court lawyer Divyan Banerjee has filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court against actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui alleging that he hurt Bengali sentiments in an advertisement for a cold drink. He claimed that recently Nawaz had advertised a soft drink. Where Bengalis are made fun of.
The petitioner has no objection to the Hindi version of the advertisement.
Targeting Bengalis in the name of a joke, some such things have been said which have hurt the sentiments of Bengalis. So he filed a petition in the High Court. However, the petitioner has no objection to the Hindi version of the same advertisement. But the lawyer objected that the Bengali dubbed version of the advertisement was being aired on channels and websites.
what was said in the complaint
In the video, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui is seen joking. He said in Bengali that if ghee is not smeared on his straight fingers, Bengalis go to sleep on an empty stomach. That is, if they do not get anything easily, Bengalis go to bed hungry. It has been said in the complaint that Bengali sentiments have been hurt by this. The ad is actually based on a popular Bengali idiom. It is said that if ghee does not spread on straight fingers, bend them.
Advertisement pulled from TV and internet media
This means that if you cannot achieve something, you will have to work harder to achieve it. The ad has been pulled from TV and internet media following complaints and protests to the police. The beverage giant wrote on Twitter in Bangla that we deeply regret our recent Bengali advertising campaign and Bengali media immediately retracts this inadvertent error.
