Why are Sehwag and Gavaskar being trolled on Twitter?

Virender Sehwag and Sunil Gavaskar are being trolled on social media platforms like Twitter for their ‘Kamla Pasand’ advertisements. Both Sehwag and Gavaskar were seen eating ‘Kamla Pasand silver coated elaichi’ in the advertisement. Kamla Pasand uses surrogate advertising through their ‘Elaichi’ to basically advertise their ‘Pan Masala’.

Kamla Pasand even has great Bollywood actors in their advertisements. Last year they created ads featuring Bollywood legend, Amitabh Bachchan and actor Ranveer Singh. They too were involved in surrogate advertising as they were also advertising for ‘Kamla Pasand’s silver coated elaichi’. The ad featuring former Indian batters Gavaskar and Sehwag caused an uproar among their fans and cricket fans. Here is a look at the reactions from people on Twitter.

Here is the advertisement.

Kamla Pasand has recently onboarded former Indian cricketers- Virender Sehwag and Sunil Gavaskar pic.twitter.com/XZGNf2MNF4

— Monish (@Monishroy) May 6, 2023

Here are the reactions from people on Twitter.

Money can change people just like that

With a single ad, it has managed to destroy both my and my father’s childhood cricketing idols

Sunil Gavaskar and Virendra Sehwag endorsing Kamla Pasand

Such a shame! pic.twitter.com/votaWfCrXv

— लक्ष्य (@lk6nar) May 7, 2023

Looking at the stellar star cast of Pan Masala ads; Amitabh, Ranveer, Gavaskar & Sehwag for Kamla Pasand & Shahrookh, Akshay & Ajay Devgan for Vimal; I wonder what must be the volume and margin in this biz! pic.twitter.com/6TYmdvjicJ

— Anurag Katriar (@KingKatriar) May 7, 2023

Sehwag and Sunil Gavaskar are brand ambassadors of Kamla Pasand Guthka. What a shame!!

— Rattan Mukherjee (@RattanMukherjee) May 7, 2023

Why two icons of the country needs to do surrogate advertising to promote a Pan Masala brand? Who eats Kamla Pasand Elaichi? None of them really have any need for money! They have fledgling businesses, lucrative contracts then why? Why spoil your own image? #Gavaskar #Sehwag pic.twitter.com/IP1xFyGM58

— Rana. (@bladeit) May 4, 2023

Sehwag was trolled even further as his statement on the clash between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir also went viral. Sehwag argued that the two “icons” shouldn’t set a poor example for children by engaging in such activities, but those same remarks came back to bite him when critics accused the former India opener of being hypocritical in light of his involvement with an advertisement for the Indian tobacco company.

On Twitter, people aired their annoyance against Viru and Sunil Gavaskar, two Indian sports legends who starred in the endorsement. Sehwag and Gavaskar both called for a much harsher punishment for Kohli and Gambhir after their brawl, arguing that the 100% fine levied by the BCCI was insufficient and that banning them would prevent future fights of this nature.

Virender Sehwag on Cricbuzz (on the Kohli-Gambhir spat): "These are the icons of our country. If icons say or do something, lakhs of kids follow them. They think if my icon has done so, it must be right."

Also, @virendersehwag: pic.twitter.com/qyqWS0mgWl

— Zucker Doctor (@DoctorLFC) May 3, 2023

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