Hrithik Roshan justifies skin darkening for Super 30 in this audio excerpt

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Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/84dd0d6dfceb000 See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos/Best of Bollywood  In this audio recording, Bollywood top actor Hrithik Roshan, who sparked widespread criticism for going several shades darker than his natural skin tone to play the Bihari mathematician Anand Kumar in ‘Super 30’, seems to be in denial mode.

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00:00You are several shades darker in Super 30 and that has invited polarizing opinions.

00:04Many feel that your deliberate darkening of the skin propagate the stereotype that being

00:08dark is reserved for the poorer, underprivileged sections of India.

00:12What are your thoughts on the same?

00:14Well, I think to be honest, I think first of all I feel a little, I feel there is racism

00:25in the question itself because you are saying that a fair-skinned actor has got no right

00:31to choose roles like this, that I have no right, only dark-skinned actors can play dark-skinned

00:38characters and I don't have, you are telling me that I don't have the right and the freedom

00:42as a creative mind and as a professional to explore, to do various, a variety of roles.

00:55You know, I can play a westernized guy in Kites or Dhoom 2 and I can play Koi Mil Gaya,

01:06I can do Super 30.

01:09So and I also think that it is important to make sure that you are being true to the events

01:16of the film.

01:17Now, in the film, if you are selling papad in 45 degrees heat in the sun, you are not

01:24going, and if you keep your skin fair, it's just going to look like this guy has no idea

01:29what he is doing, you know.

01:31This actor has got no right to do this film.

01:34So in fact, this is something that are devices and they are techniques which I have used

01:41multiple times in my film.

01:43In fact, I was even darker in films like Agneepath, I was darker in so many other films.

01:53I was my normal skin in ZNMD, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was my natural skin.

02:02But then I have the choice of playing around in other films and I think that is absolutely

02:07fair.

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