Surf Excel’s youtube and facebook ad titled ‘Rang Laaye Sang’ (colours bring us together) shows a little girl in a bicycle get stained with colours to pretect her Muslim friend who has to go to a nearby mosque to offer namaaz. The ad ends with the boy entering the mosque, in a pristine white kurta-pyjama, and promising the girl he’ll join in the celebrations soon after.
This ad also received some negative comments like it is promoting “love jihad” and others questioned the logic of the ad as namaaz can be offered at home too. Some others were irked by Holi colours being compared to ‘daag’. A few even asked Hindustan Unilever, the company which owns Surf Excel, if they would reverse the gender in the ad and show it differently. However, many online came forward to laud the brand for its advertisement and said Holi has always been a festival for all and the ad truly reflects what it means to be in India, slamming people who tried to promote hate online.
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