Of late, social media has been abuzz with calls for boycotting or taking down one advertisement or another for hurting religious sentiments or not being in good spirit. 

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The recent target of netizens wrath is popular chips and snack brand Bingo and it's ambassador Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh, who are both alleged to be making fun of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput through their latest collaboration for an advertisement titled ‘Beta aage kya plan hai’. 

The now controversial advertisement plays out with Ranveer Singh attending a house party when an elder person asks him about his future plans. Soon, several uncles and aunties suggest ideal plans while Ranveer, after having a Bingo chip, utters some scientific terms like 'photon', 'algorithm' and 'paradox' to shut down the relatives. 

And as soon as confused relatives walk away, Ranveer reveals that the only solution to such tricky questions is by using a 'mad angle'.

After the advertisement was released and audiences saw it, social media users took offence at it considering how words like 'photon', 'algorithm' and 'paradox' were included in the script to take a jibe at late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who loved talking about science, stars and all things space. In fact, Sushant's Instagram bio reads, "Photon in a double-slit". The late actor often also mentioned about algorithms and space in his social media posts. 

Consequently, the advertisement led Twitterati to believe that Ranveer was making fun of Sushant and so they demanded that the advert be pulled down and also trended #BoycottBingo to express their anger over the ad. 

Some users also made attacks on the Gully Boy actor, questioning his education qualification etc.

Take a look at some of the tweets here: 

While such massive social media backlash often led to the brand taking down the video, Bingo did not do so. However, it hid the likes and dislikes from YouTube on the advertisement titled ‘Beta aage kya plan hai’ video which many Twitter users pointed out.

Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, Jewellery brand Tanishq was targeted with accusations of promoting ‘love jihad’ in one of their ads. Later, the brand took it down after facing massive flak for it.