Tanishq Pulls Down Ad After Facing Social Media Outrage
A day after receiving severe backlash on social media for an advertisement featuring a Hindu-Muslim marriage, Tata Group’s Tanishq Jewellery has pulled down the controversial advertisement from its YouTube page.
The jewellery brand pulled down the advertisement because of the vicious trolling it was subjected to and is expected to issue a statement regarding the same soon.
Also, ‘#BoycottTanishq’ was a top trend on Monday and ‘#TanishqMaafiMaang‘ on Tuesday. Moreover, several people tweeted against the advertisement claiming that it promoted “fake secularism” and “love jihad”.
As a result, the company made the YouTube link to the video private Monday evening, making it unavailable to people. By Tuesday morning, the advertisement was no longer visible on its YouTube page.
Communications strategy consultant Karthik Srinivasan confirmed the news on Twitter about withdrawing of Tanishq ad
https://twitter.com/beastoftraal/status/1315848777123598337?s=20
Moreover, several social media users condemned the trolling that Tanishq was subjected to.
CHECK OUT SHASHI THAROOR TWEET ON TANISHQ AD
Responding to the backlash the jewellery brand faced, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said, “So Hindutva bigots have called for a boycott of @TanishqJewelry for highlighting Hindu-Muslim unity through this beautiful ad. If Hindu-Muslim “ekatvam” irks them so much, why don’t they boycott the longest surviving symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity in the world — India?”
https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1315833504253374464?s=20
RAJ NAYAK’S TWEET ON TANISHQ AD
Former Chief Operating Officer (CEO) of Viacom and now managing director of House of Cheer Networks Raj Nayak expressed his disappointment at Tanishq for withdrawing the ad and said, “This is really sad! How can a brand as strong as Tanishq from the House of Tata’s chicken out based on trolls?”
https://twitter.com/rajcheerfull/status/1315852848140218368?s=20
DILIP CHERIAN’S TWEET
Image and communications consultant Dilip Cherian also said the move by the jewellery brand was not warranted.
https://twitter.com/DILIPtheCHERIAN/status/1315868801196466176?s=20
WHY TANISHQ AD IS CONTROVERSIAL?
The advertisement by Tanishq was released on 9 October and promoted its new jewellery line called ‘Ekatvam’. The 45-second video showed a Muslim family preparing a traditional South Indian baby shower for their pregnant Hindu daughter-in-law.
The YouTube description of the video had noted, “She is married into a family that loves her like their own child. Only for her, they go out of their way to celebrate an occasion that they usually don’t. A beautiful confluence of two different religions, traditions, cultures.”
Moreover, the outrage was partly fueled by the recent case of an 18-year-old Rahul Rajput, who was brutally hacked to death by his Muslim girlfriend’s brother and his friends.
The Muslim girl’s family, particularly her brother, were opposed to their inter-religious affair. Further, in reality, there have been innumerable cases where Hindu women are forced to convert to Islam and marry Muslim men.
Recently, family members of a 20-year-old girl have alleged that one Salman entrapped their daughter, forced her to convert to Islam and marry her. In September, an aspiring model Pooja committed suicide after her husband allegedly forced her to adopt Islam.
Following the release of the advertisement, several users on Twitter called for its ban and boycott of Tanishq, including authors Shefali Vaidya and Sanjay Dixit.
https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1315860500383588354?s=20
https://twitter.com/Sanjay_Dixit/status/1315526297691381760?s=20
https://twitter.com/bagga_daku/status/1315492776604098560?s=20
When the video was up on YouTube, it had received more ‘dislikes’ than ‘likes’. Till Monday afternoon, the video had garnered more than 2,000 dislikes and only 500 people had liked the advertisement. The comments section of the video was also disabled by the company Monday.
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