Chitrangda Singh might be known for her beauty but the actor has said that she has faced discrimination in the past because of her dusky complexion.
Chitrangda revealed that she not only faced biases growing up but also professionally, as she lost out on modelling assignments.
Last month, Chitrangda put up an Instagram story, in which she said that she was "brown and happy".
Speaking to Bombay Times, in an interview, Chitrangda said, "I know the feeling of living life as a girl with dusky complexion. This is not something that people will say directly to your face. You can only sense it. I have been through the biases, especially while growing up in the north."
Before she came to Mumbai, she lived in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi.
Chitrangda also spoke about how she lost out on work because of the colour of her skin. She said, "I did lose out on modelling assignments. In fact, when I lost out on one ad in the initial days of my career, I was specifically told the reason as it had come down to selecting between two people for the part. Luckily, the audition that I did for a product was seen by Gulzar saab, who got me on board for his music video. I realised that not everybody goes out looking for white-skinned people here."
Chitrangda, whose last major release was Baazaar alongside Saif Ali Khan, was recently seen in a cameo in Ghoomketu starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, produced by Anurag Kashyap. During the coronavirus induced lockdown, the actor also began working on a short film.
Speaking about it she told Fever Digital and said, "I have done the dialogues, screenplay, everything. For the first time, I am doing everything by myself. That is the one that I am finishing up."
