An advertising campaign featuring India’s rising tennis star Sania Mirza sparked off protests in her hometown Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday.
The Lotto sportswear campaign features Sania resting her foot on a guitar painted in the colours of the Indian flag.
Members of the ‘Rahul Priyanka Youth Brigade’, an affiliate to the state’s ruling Congress Party, shouted anti-Sania slogans and burnt her effigies, demanding an immediate public apology from her.
“We hereby ask her to apologise to the whole country. While endorsing a foreign brand, she is demeaning the Indian flag rather than holding it high. That she chose to feature in that advertisement is a shame,” said Manoj Alexander, president of the Rahul Priyanka Youth Brigade.
Among the protestors were several Muslim women clad in traditional black veils…..
this is so funny… first of all i saw a picture of that ad on TV and it was not the Indian flag painted on the guitar it was actually the Italian flag (Lotto is an Italian brand).. which does look a little bit like the Indian flag except that the stripes are vertical and the saffron band is more reddish in color.. =)
i guess either way the Congress workers will latch on the chance to take offense since Sonia is of Italian origin =)
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September 20th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
So typically vai, in lak fin viau hi. Hit fuh an intih ve don tehreng nen Cong ho chu
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September 20th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
uizz indian flag velz an in la sensitive over ..M.F. hussain in mother india a paint teh kha arrest warrant an ti thul..over hlom lutukz…muslims ho pawh engkim ah hian an over react in ka hria..pope comments an lak kawih dan te..leh cartoon controversy tih vel..”fatwa”issue e ek e bal e…ka ning heng ho khawvel ti zeem lutuk hi..
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September 21st, 2006 at 12:21 am
Sania does not insult the Flag…. she just rest her foot on the flag.
Hehe…ni mai lo’m ni?
Tak tak a….. fimkhur ve deuh hi chu a tha…. advertisment titu te pawh chuan thil an va hre zau lo em em.
India flag hi kawr leh lukhum vel atan hman phal a ni a…. kekawr atan hman phal a ni lo, tih vel a ni lo’m ni kha? In man thiam mai em?…kekawr… a awmna zawn a fuh lo dun bawk a ni…hi hi…ha ha!!
Hetih vel hi kan nia….sawiseltu pawl hi an awm ve hrim hrim a… fimkhur ve mai tur.
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September 21st, 2006 at 12:39 am
India ramah hian Flag zah leh zah loh tih vel aia buaipui tur hi a tam lutuk.Eg. population,pollution,corruption,Zoramthanga etc.Thil dang poimod zok kan ti tha anih phot chuan Flag te chu kikawrte ah poh hmang mah i la engnge a poina????
BTw,Sania Mirza hi ka hne reuh ania.a tir kha chuan ka ngaisang ve viau don a mahse advertisement ilo velah hian a in hmang zo reuh lutuk.chak loh reng bok si.Thau deuhhlek leh nghal.I think she is pulling an Anna kournikova.
hmanni a webside pakhat a ka poll hmuh poh.the question was somethin like this ‘Do you think Anna K is really interested in playing tennis professionally?’ chuan a answer ah hian option pahnih a om a No and Not Really.
lol
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September 21st, 2006 at 4:35 pm
….talk about being jobless in India haha.. dont blame em…protesting has become an unpaid occupation….heights!!! lol
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September 27th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
these folks protesting sound a touch extreme, like the Shiv Sena people.Its silly i think.
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