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S'gor MB’s brother in the soup over kicap ‘parody’
Published:  Jan 18, 2016 10:00 PM
Updated: 2:04 PM

Celebrity Azwan Ali will face a lawsuit from the makers of soy sauce Kicap Tirana if he does not apologise over a parody video of the product’s advertisement posted on his Instagram social media account.

Azwan, who is brother to Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali, posted a video lampooning the soya sauce advertisement on his Instagram account dubbed Diva Azwan Avazz.

Although his Instagram has a whopping 141,000 followers, it is a private account and those wanting to follow it must first be approved by Azwan.

“We cannot accept that our image is smeared. […]

“His comments are scathing and overboard. Even if our advertisement is bad, there are more polite ways to say it, as Malays and Muslims,” Tirana Products Sdn Bhd founder Murad Hilmi said.

“At first, we did not want to entertain him but he is uploading six or seven posts a day (against us) and it’s not constructive criticism […] what of our rights?” he said at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today

Tirana Products wants Azwan to apologise in writing, promise to never make any statements or videos smearing the firm or its products and to agree to publish an apology in a Malay language newspaper by Jan 26 or face a lawsuit.

Azwan, better known as 'Diva AA' among his fans, is seemingly not fazed at all by the threat.

“Billions support Diva AA! All agree it’s just a parody! So what?” he replied on his Instagram account.

In another posting, he reiterated that Kicap Tirana’s advertisement was poorly-made and deserved the ridicule.

“Pitiful. All desperate to be on TV,” he said, with the hashtag #NOTmyLEVELLLL

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