'I was always told not to play in the sun, pushed to buy skin lightening creams'
November 07, 2013  14:30
When Bollywood actor Nandita Das was growing up, her relatives would warn her not to play out in the sun. As a teenager if she went to buy cosmetics, the sales assistants would advise her to try skin lightening creams.

On some of her first movies, directors and producers told her to go a shade or two fairer. The actress, who is something of a  non-conformist, refused every attempt to make her whiter. Read
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