Akshay Kumar breaks silence on his Vimal ad with Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgn after social media outrage

Recently, Akshay Kumar joined Shah Rukh Khan, and Ajay Devgn for a new advertisement of Vimal. Actor and model Soundarya Sharma is also a part of the commercial. However, it seems like Akshay Kumar fans are not too excited about him promoting a tobacco brand.

The clip shared by a SRK fan page opens to Shah Rukh and Ajay Devgn waiting for Akshay Kumar in a car, but the OMG 2 actor is unable to hear the horn as he is busy listening to music on headphones. SRK tries to get Kumar to listen by throwing a ball toward his glass window, but it ends up hitting his neighbor Soundarya Sharma’s window. An irritated Ajay Devgn opens a packet of Vimal and points towards Kumar’s window. Drown by the aroma of it, the OMG 2 actor comes to the window and Ajay Devgn asks him to come down.

Clarification by Akshay Kumar

Seeing the backlash on social media, the Mission Raniganj actor shared a note X and wrote- “These ads were shot on 13th October, 2021. I have not had anything to do with the brand ever since I publicly announced the discontinuation of the endorsement. They can legally run the already shot ads till the end of next month.”

‘Returns’ as ambassador? Here’s some fact check for you Bollywood Hungama, if by chance you are interested in things other than fake news. These ads were shot on 13th October, 2021. I have not had anything to do with the brand ever since I publicly announced the discontinuation…

— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) October 9, 2023

Netizens react

‘He did wanted To return money. But he would have run through court cases due to contract he had signed,’ said one user. He added, ‘That’s why he had announced he would denote that money to needy that time whatever he got Now he has clarified about new Ad’

Another one wrote- ‘That’s exactly what I want to hear from Akshay Kumar!’

A third one stated- ‘ Everybody need to counter fake news like this for some views and publicity the run fake news but if you will expose them than they will think to fake any news in future. Be like Akshay Kumar.’

When Akshay Kumar Apologised To His Fans

For the unversed, earlier, Akshay Kumar was trolled for being a part of the Vimal brand. Following this, the Bell Bottom actor even apologized to his fans with a heartfelt note on his official Instagram account.

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