Times of India, one of the leading Indian dailies, has found themselves in a soup, after a recent post on Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone’s cleavage!
The Times of India Entertainment Twitter post (https://twitter.com/TOIEntertain) provoked widespread reaction and many were as harsh as expected.
And, TOI went a step further in attracting more ridicule after they took a stance not to apologise too.
It all began after TOI posted a headline that held forth the awesomeness of Finding Fanny actress’ cleavage.
Absolutely in bad taste, the post triggered ridicule and many went ahead lambasting such an irresponsible post from one of the most respected dailies.
The matter came under the limelight when Deepika (https://twitter.com/deepikapadukone) herself tweeted the image of the entertainment post alongside scribbling “Supposedly India’s ‘LEADING’ newspaper and this is ‘NEWS’!!??”
She further went on to tweet “YES!I am a Woman.I have breasts AND a cleavage! You got a problem!!??”
The B-town actress also slammed the leading media house by tweeting “Don’t talk about Woman’s Empowerment when YOU don’t know how to RESPECT Women!”
Times of India tweeted their response explaining that what they had intended was a ‘compliment’, which only invited wider resentment.
That in fact added fuel to fire, and the film world was up in arms on social media against the irresponsible statement.
“It’s a compliment! You look so great that we want to make sure everyone knew! :)” tweeted TOI entertainment desk.
Outraged celebrities and common readers began to fill Twitter supporting the actress.
Celebrities slammed TOI and also made sure that they applaud the actress for sending out the right message.