Sunny Deol’s old pan masala ad resurfaces, sparks fresh controversy

Bollywood actor Sunny Deol has said he has never endorsed paan masala and would never do it. But now an old advertisement featuring the actor has resurfaced online. The commercial appears to promote a paan masala product and has sparked questions over his recent comments. The old video features him alongside actors Ravi Kishan and Vijay Raaz. In the ad, Sunny arrives at a paan shop and then consumes the paan The packaging prominently says no tobacco and no nicotine. The resurfaced video now has drawn attention yet again because of the actor's recent remarks about refusing such endorsements. In a recent interview, the actor said he has received offers for paan masala advertisements but has always turned them down. He said he does not want to promote anything that he does not adding that he does not consider such products good to promote. The actor's comments come amid a separate controversy involving Shah Rukh Khan, Ajay Devgn and Tiger Shroff. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration has issued show cause notices to the three actors over their 2024 advertisements for a paan masala brand, even marketed as the cardamom-based mouth freshener. The regulator is examining whether the campaign amounts to surrogate advertising or indirectly promotes the product through the brand's association with the mouth freshener.