Celebrities and their controversial advertisements

Recently Madhuri Dixit got into trouble over the Maggi advertisement she was in. Here is a list of celebs who were in a similar soup.

In April this year, Kalyan Jewellers withdrew a 'racist' print ad featuring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan decked in jewels along with a dark and emaciated child, holding a big umbrella over her head

Not all innocent acts pass the Advertising Standard Council of India's test. A TV ad campaign for a candy brand in which Amitabh Bachchan was shown hurling stones at a mango tree was deemed dangerous with ASCI saying kids could copy action &, would, in turn, hurt themselves. The ad was stopped

The Milind Soman-Madhu Sapre print ads in 1995 for a shoe brand that showed them wearing nothing more than a pair of shoes each with a python wrapped around their bodies sparked a row. The ad was withdrawn and the models were booked for indecency

Shah Rukh Khan courted controversy by endorsing a skin-lightening cream couple of years ago. The ad sparked off an online campaign 'Dark and Beautiful'. But undeterred Khan still promotes the brand

Senior actor Shriram Lagoo, also a doctor, was deregistered from the Indian Medical Association's medical register after he endorsed Dabur's Chyavanprash

An ad in 1998 for a Swiss undergarments label in which Dino Morea was seen pulling Bipasha Basu's panties with his teeth was slammed for being obscene. Ad was stopped after public outcry and then minister Anil Deshmukh criticizing it

A coffee commercial that saw Arbaaz Khan and Malaika Arora Khan getting intimate was slammed as it was too suggestive for Indian sensibilities. The 1993 ad with the one-liner 'Real pleasure can't come in an instant' was banned following massive public criticism