Karachi restaurant Swing draws social media flak for using scene from Gangubai Kathiawadi in promotion.

Karachi restaurant Swing has drawn the outrage and ire of social media users after it used a scene from film Gangubai Kathiawadi's scene to promote an offer for men.

On Friday, the restaurant's official social media pages used a scene from the film that showed a scene from the movie in which Alia Bhatt is forced into prostitution and gesturing with dead eyes at men to get her first client.

As soon as the post went up, it received heated comments from social media users calling the restaurant out for their bad taste in content promoting offers at the restaurant. Content creator Daniyal Sheikh took to their Facebook post and wrote, "What is this? It's promoting sexual abuse of women and literally making fun of women who are forced to be a prostitute. Try to be responsible."

Other content creators and social media users commented on Instagram and called them out.

A user wrote, "If you guys think that this is some sort of marketing strategy and this will gain you some...

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