Ajay Devgn Fan Appeals To The Actor To Stop Promoting Tobacco After He Gets Diagnosed With Cancer

Ajay Devgn's pan masala ad slogan 'Bolo Zuban Kesari' is so popular that it has been used as a meme for almost all occasions, and we have all poked fun at it, haven’t we? But this has apparently landed Ajay Devgn in trouble.

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A 40-year-old man named Nanakram is a an Ajay Devgn fan and he says he has been using the same product that the actor endorses, but now, he has cancer and he has realised that tobacco has an adverse effect on life.

So, this man from Rajasthan has made a public appeal to Ajay Devgn to stop endorsing tobacco products in the interest of society.

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He has circulated nearly 1000 pamphlets in which he has asked Ajay Devgn as to how much he and his family chews tobacco. The pamphlets have been pasted on the walls in Sanganer, Jagatpura and nearby areas of the city.

“My father Nanakram Meena started chewing tobacco a few years ago and was using the same brand for which Devgn does the advertisement. My father was impressed by Devgn but when he was diagnosed with cancer, he felt that such a big star should not advertise for these kind of products,” Dinesh Meena, the patients son told PTI.

In the pamphlet, Nanakram said that advertisements of things like liquor, cigarette and tobacco were harmful and that actors should not promote these things. A father of two children, Nanakram, who used to run a tea-stall earlier, cannot speak and runs the family by selling milk at home in Sanganer town of Jaipur.

In a country where Bollywood stars are considered demi-gods, why wouldn’t a brand use their enormous popularity to endorse their products? And these celebs also earn exorbitant amounts of money for that. From Priyanka Chopra to Ajay Devgn, a lot of celebs have been a part of surrogate advertising, a form of advertising which indirectly promotes banned products. For the uninitiated, all kinds of advertising of tobacco products (direct and indirect) are prohibited under section 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act.