New Delhi: Bollywood star Aamir Khan won't be endorsing Tourism Ministry's 'Incredible India' campaign any more. According to sources, His contract with the advertising agency McCann Worldgroup is over and a new star is likely to be roped in to endorse the Tourism Ministry campaign.
According to a report in The Indian Express, Tourism minister Mahesh Sharma said that it was purely a contractual matter with advertising agency McCann Worldgroup. The contract worth Rs 2.96 crore with the agency, which featured Khan in a film for the ministry, has recently ended.
"Our agreement was with a media agency namely McCann. That was for a particular work. That work they have delivered to us. They have completed that project. Hence, that contract is now over," Sharma said.
Some unconfirmed reports claimed that the Centre is likely to rope in another Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan for the campaign. Sources said that the matter would be discussed on Friday.
Speaking at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in November 2015, Aamir Khan said that his wife Kiran Rao has suggested that they should leave India due to a "sense of growing disquiet" and "growing despondency" in the country. Following the uproar over his comments, the Bollywood actor said he stood by his comments but that his family had no intention of leaving India. He accused those creating a storm of "deliberately trying to distort what he said".
On November 25, 2015, Khan wrote: "Let me state categorically that neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intention of leaving the country. India is my country, I love it, I feel fortunate for being born here, and this is where I am staying. To all those people who are calling me anti-national, I would like to say that I am proud to be Indian, and I do not need anyone's permission nor endorsement for that."
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