New Delhi, Feb 5: Snapdeal has decided not to renew its contract with Aamir Khan as its brand ambassador within months of the Bollywood actor's comments on perceived intolerance in the country that made him and the e-commerce giant target of severe criticism.
When contacted, a Snapdeal spokesperson said: "We would not like to comment on this." The actor was also not available for comments.
Three months ago, the Bollywood superstar had made controversial comments on perceived intolerance in the country that evoked criticism from many quarters.
At an event, Khan had said his wife Kiran Rao had asked if they should move out of the country, as she feared for the safety of their child in a climate of insecurity.
Following the remarks, many netizens vented their frustration on social networks and even deleted Snapdeal's app to show protest against the company.
Snapdeal had distanced itself from the remark, saying the comments made by the actor were "in his personal capacity" and it was in no way connected with them.
In January, Khan ceased to be the ambassador for the government's 'Incredible India' tourism campaign. Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Priyanka Chopra replaced Khan as the brand ambassadors for the campaign.
Currently, Snapdeal is not looking at replacing Khan with another celebrity, the sources said.
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He will get better than this .......we should not use SNAPDEAL to support Amir khan thats it
Good move. He shouldn't have said such irresponsible comments being a representative of India and who was preaching high standards of ethics.
He had criticized Hindu religion to a lowest level in his PK movie (recalling fancy dressed God Shiva in a toilet scene?). It was released in India. Indians (having Hindus in majority) have made the movie cross all time box office revenue records. (However, a minor incidents of protests and unrest were witnessed here and there).
Now imagine, had this movie criticized Islam (in a similar way as was done with Hinduism), definitely an emergency kind of situation would have been created in India. It wouldn't have crossed even 1 crore revenue. Can you imagine such a movie (criticizing Islam) could have been ever made and released in Islamic countries? The whole PK team would have faced death sentence there.
It proves how tolerant, intelligent and open minded Indian are. And yet, he publicly conveyed his wife's such a immature and insensitive statement.
He doesn't deserves to represent India and preach any higher morality values. Its time teach him and similar thinking narrow minded people.
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