Did you also wake up yesterday to a huge photo of Pierce Brosnan gracing the front page of one of our country’s highly esteemed newspapers? Were you amused to see James Bond endorsing a top tobacco brand? So was Twitter. And Twitterati, obviously had a ball.
Check out a few hilarious jokes made at the expense of the ex-Bond:
Pierce Brosnan endorsing Pan Masala. Yeh kaise din aagaye hai! pic.twitter.com/vx6T1uqcdf
— All India Bakchod (@AllIndiaBakchod) October 7, 2016
Ajay Devgn just sent a friend request to Bond… pic.twitter.com/YNd9lhQWjK
— The Viral Fever (@TheViralFever) October 7, 2016
After having pan bahar .. Pierce Brosnan will say “I’m bond …. (Spit out) …. James bond”
— crime master gogo (@vipul2777) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan_ Pan Bahar
Pic1- when you want to kill others.
Pic2- when you want to kill yourself. ? pic.twitter.com/V0C2hKN3HT— Lazy Cat (@DenNehaS) October 7, 2016
“I believe you hold the famous ‘License To Kill’ in your possession, Mr. Bond?”
*takes out Pan Bahar from his pocket*
*130,000 people die*
— Akshar (@AksharPathak) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan.
Played James Bond.
Endorses Pan Bahar.
Licensed to kill.— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) October 7, 2016
When your #LicenceToKill expires, but you still have bills to pay @PierceBrosnan #PanBahar #JamesBond #OldIsGold pic.twitter.com/rnU22br3uH
— Ankit Verma (@a2zankit) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan, is that you? pic.twitter.com/9osA8o8mZx
— Netflix India (@NetflixIndia) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan becomes brand ambassador for Paan Bahar Masala, waiting for Brad Pitt to endorse Shaadi. com
— Sand-d Singh (@Sand_In_Deed) October 7, 2016
Breaking News: Pierce Brosnan is also going to endorse Thumbs Up.
The tagline would be ‘Aaj kuch thoo Paani karte hai’— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan is Pan Singh Tumor.
— AJ (@warpedinxs) October 7, 2016
Breaking News : Pierce Brosnan to come in a new movie ‘The Adventures of Peter Paan and Captain Thook’.
— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan says the outrage has given him much to chew on, Paan unintended
— Ajith (@ajith27) October 7, 2016
Pierce Brosnan : The name is Bond and I like my pan folded not skewered.
— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) October 7, 2016
Does Pierce Brosnan know that people used to spit this same paan on his face 15 years ago when his movie posters were on walls?
— Azeem Banatwalla (@TheBanat) October 7, 2016
So now before every Bollywood movie ‘Pierce Brosnan’ ad will be played instead of ‘Gutkha Mukesh’
. pic.twitter.com/eBuOopMSmX— PhD in Bak*****!! (@Atheist_Krishna) October 7, 2016
What the…it’s Jamshed Bond pic.twitter.com/1nIkRPDAl2
— Kabir Taneja (@KabirTaneja) October 7, 2016
However, Sambit Mohanty, the creative head of the company behind the campaign does not care about the Twitter trolls as he said:
Twitter is a minority and isn’t our audience. We are targeting the masses, and the campaign has worked well with them. I received a text from someone who said that he had been a consumer of a rival brand for the past 15 years, but was now glad to switch to our brand. When neither the brand nor Mr Brosnan have any problem with the promotion, why the hell does Twitter have a problem with it?