After the death of industrialist Cyrus Mistry in a road accident, a fresh discussion has started on road safety rules. From celebrities to the government, at their own level, people are warning about road safety rules. An advertisement of Akshay Kumar has also come in this regard, in which he is seen telling the importance of airbags in the car. However, on social media, the tone of protest against this advertisement of the actor has become high. Netizens are accusing the actor of promoting dowry system.
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Let us inform you that the government has issued a TVC ad with Akshay Kumar to bring awareness among the people about 6 airbags. This advertisement of the actor has been released by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of India (MoRTH). In the ad, Akshay Kumar is in the role of a traffic cop. It depicts the scene of the bride’s farewell. The bride is crying at the time of farewell while sitting in the car gifted by her father. The father is also getting emotional seeing the daughter. Then Akshay Kumar goes to the father of the bride and says, ‘If you send your daughter away in such a vehicle, then she will cry only.’ Then he tells the father that there are no 6 airbags in this vehicle, so the daughter will obviously cry. After this, the father gifts her a car with 6 airbags and the daughter starts smiling with great excitement. The importance of 6 airbags in the car has also been told with the help of graphics in the advertisement.
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Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has shared this advertisement with his official Twitter handle. With this, he has written the caption, ‘Make life safe by traveling in a vehicle with 6 airbags.’ There are different reactions of people to this tweet of Gadkari. On one hand, people are advising him to look into the condition of the roads apart from the road safety rules. So, some users are opposing this advertisement calling this advertisement of the actor to be promoting the dowry system.
Akshay Kumar Trolled
Questions are being raised on the content of this ad by Akshay Kumar on Twitter. One user wrote, ‘Do you know that you are promoting dowry?’ Another user wrote, ‘Why we and you are increasing the burden on the poor parents of daughters in North India? There could have been some other way to make an ad for six airbags’.