Sonali Kulkarni is one of the most gorgeous and popular divas in the Indian entertainment industry. She’s best known for her acting stints in movies like Dil Chahta Hai and Mission Kashmir and even today, she continues to have a humongous presence on social media platforms. What’s amazing is that despite not having any direct connection with the film industry, Sonali has managed to make a mark in the industry to establish her niche.
The thing with the entertainment industry is that often, actresses go through different obstacles that come off as a hindrance in their career. One such obstacle that Sonali faced in her life was colorism. During a conversation with Times Of India, the actress was once quoted as saying,
“I haven’t faced colorism in Bollywood but I have experienced it in Pune. I have only received compliments and encouraging kind words in Bollywood. More than Bollywood, I have received a huge amount of compliments when I have traveled abroad for my international films. Be it in Italy or my films representing India in a variety of other countries. But when I appeared for my first audition in Pune. I was meeting Girish Karnad for the first time and one of the girls had come with her mother. And the mother had asked me, ‘Why have you come here?’ Thankfully, I didn’t understand the sarcasm in her tone.”
She further added,
“You know, we are all meeting Girish Karnad sir and I am here for that meeting because someone asked me to be here.’ And she asked back, ‘But have you seen your face in the mirror? Dark girls don’t look good on camera.’ I felt so embarrassed that day and I just felt like melting into the earth. But within 15-20 minutes we got to meet Girish uncle and he made me feel equal and perfectly normal as he spoke to all of us. He was speaking to each one of us individually and when my turn came he asked me, ‘What’s your name and what are you doing?’ And I mentioned the name of the play I was acting in and he said, ‘How interesting! I have done some work on the same play, too.’ And then he asked me more things and it made me feel so nice. So the humiliation and the sarcasm didn’t linger with me for long. I just felt that, probably someone just uttered the truth. I didn’t take it that seriously.”
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