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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