Actress writes poignant FB post on being ‘roasted’ about her skin colour

The actor wrote she couldn’t take the racist ‘jokes’ people cracked in the name of a ‘roast’ and was left angry and disappointed. “I was actually looking forward to be roasted… the only thing they could roast about a dark-skinned actress was of course her dark skin. They could identify me only with that. I could not believe I was sitting in a nationally televised comedy show in 2016 in Mumbai amid such regressive (I can’t call it humour), and blatantly racist content,” she wrote. 

At a time when several campaigns like 'Dark is beautiful' and 'Proud Of My Colour' are championing the fight against racism, this incident reinstates that the change in mind-set however has been excruciatingly slow. 

Chatterjee rightly added, “In an India of 2016 I still have to be apologetic about my skin tone? What is this white-skin hangover? Where does all our pride as a nation go away when it comes to the acceptance that most of us have a darker skin tone?” And what comes across as nauseating is the fact that the actor was asked by the organisers and even a couple of her friends to “ignore” the incident because it was all in good humour and jest. “Except there is nothing funny about this,” she wrote.