As Samantha Akkineni dons dark makeup for her starring turn in The Family Man 2, B’wood’s tactic of ‘browning up’ to get into the skin of roles, questioned once
B wood continues getting into the skin of roles a tad too darkly
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Mumbai, June 6 : Samantha Akkineni just gave a fabulous performance in The Family Man 2 , if you choose to overlook the make-up slip about her antagonist, the Tamil terrorist Raji. On the show, Samantha s face was browned up more than necessary, to pass her off as the Sri Lankan Tamil character she plays. The outcome was not quite what one would have hoped for. The brownface syndrome had struck in Bollywood again, this time on the OTT screen.
The term brownface generally refers to lighter-skinned actors getting drastic darkening make-up to pass off as darker-skinned characters. We have seen it happen in Indian showbiz many times, and more often than not, like Samantha, the outcome has come across as a gaffe on screen. Several actors have gone a shade too many deeper while browning up for a role.