Few People Are Mistakenly Slamming Microsoft Excel Instead Of Surf Excel For Their Holi Ad

Recently, Surf Excel came up with a colourful advertisement promoting religious harmony. A Hindu girl is seen taking all the water balloon shots at herself till they run out to help a Muslim friend go for namaaz in a clean white kurta-pyjama without getting hit with colours.

But very soon, the ad started receiving a lot of backlash after the internet was left divided over the message and #BoycottSurfExcel started surfacing on social media feeds.

#BoycottSurfExcel@HUL_News made a controversial statement in his Kumbh Mela ad stating "People visit Kumbh mela to get rid of their family and friends",
Now again stating "Being Hindi is a Daag(Mark) and Namaaz it's more important than Holy".#BoycottHindustanUnilever pic.twitter.com/Ue1mFa4lud

— Real Fake Artist (@RealFakeArtist) March 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/niketsharmaa/status/1104407146181980160

Throwing @HUL_News products into dustbin . Vow never to purchase them again . Sensitising my family and friends too . #BoycottSurfExcel #BoycottHULproducts #BoycottHindustanUnilever pic.twitter.com/Ld1YE9ZPCF

— Zinga (@ShrikZinga) March 9, 2019

Canceled my order, cited Hindu phobia as the main reason! #BoycottSurfExcel pic.twitter.com/LWb2fqeeDq

— AtmaratiH (@aarthaH) March 9, 2019

https://twitter.com/arti_agarwal/status/1104701132130136064

However, quite hilariously, another brand which shares half of Surf Excel’s name started receiving a lot of negativity too!

Microsoft Excel, having no fault of their own, but just by virtue of its name, started to get slammed by people.

Many people confused Microsoft Excel for Surf Excel and started slamming it for the ad and posted negative reviews on Google Play because, why not!

When you are confused between #SurfExcel and Microsoft Excel, shit happens. pic.twitter.com/vxJaVfLzcw

— Aparna (@chhuti_is) March 11, 2019

When you beat up anyone similar you lay your hands on because you cannot find the real culprit.. #MicrosoftExcel bearing the wrath of #bhakts because they could not differentiate it from #SurfExcel .. #lmao #BMKJ #Excel pic.twitter.com/DlwoM2SwRH

— Amit Goel (@amitgoel1287) March 12, 2019

https://twitter.com/itsMichaels12/status/1105415772208152576

I think they got lost online a bit. pic.twitter.com/zo5AqSxb5J

— Karthik (@beastoftraal) March 11, 2019

#BoycottSurfExcel Some super bhakts are boycotting Microsoft Excel pic.twitter.com/trVky6i3Q6

— kamlesh tajpuri (@ktajpuri) March 11, 2019

You know you're illiterate if you doesn't know difference between #SurfExcel and #MicrosoftExcel #BoycottSurfExcel. I'm dead 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/whPbVY8otZ

— Sameer (@imSAM33R) March 12, 2019

Bhakts giving bad to reviews to Microsoft Excel bcz it ends with Excel.#Surf_Excel #SurfExcel #Surf_Excel_India pic.twitter.com/hQVBtvLiBk

— Riyaz Ahmed (@RiazJS) March 11, 2019

Knowledge level of people, who are blinded. Blindly giving reviews to Microsoft Excel, rather than #Surf_Excel_India@acjoshi pic.twitter.com/YTtoVN25N5

— Praveenkumar K: Kalam way (@praveenkalikeri) March 11, 2019

A similar case had happened a few years back when people mistook Snapdeal for Snapchat after the latter’s CEO commented something stupid about Indians.

Poor Microsoft!