Malaika Arora shares struggles of having dark complexion in Bollywood

Bollywood is known to be unkind towards all those that do not match pre-requisite beauty standards and Malaika Arora is calling it out by sharing her struggles faced owing to her dark complexion.

During an interview in an episode of Neha Dhupia’s #NoFilterNeha the 46-year-old Dabangg star shed light on how the industry had always been unfair to her dark complexion and the struggles that came her way owing to that.

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"I came at a time in the business when this whole thing about dark-skinned, fair-skinned was so prevalent and I was always put into the dark-skinned category so that was always there initially so ya that bias was always there," she said.

The star also stated that she has no interest in entertaining trolls: "Personally, I care a [expletive]. I really I mean if I have to say as crudely, I care a [expletive]. The only thing that comes to mind is that I just feel bad for people out there who talk or behave a certain way."

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"I mean like you gotta be really messed up in your head or you gotta be really low self-esteem or its gotta be some sort of you know for you to actually sit and belittle somebody or degrade somebody or be nasty,” she added.

She further continued: "I mean you really gotta have a lot of issues with yourself to be doing just because you have a platform. And you're faceless so you think its your birthright. I look at it that way. I feel really bad for them."