Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who recently landed an International EMMY nomination for his performance in Sudhir Mishra’s Serious Men, said that more than nepotism, the film industry has a trouble with racism.
Nawazuddin was talking about his co-star in the film, Indira Tiwari, whom he wished will get another lead role after Serious Men. This, he said, will be the real victory.
He told Bollywood Hungama in Hindi that Sudhir has enormous knowledge of cinema and his intelligence is very practical. He chose her as his heroine, and I can assure you that there is so much racism in our industry, I will be very happy if she is chosen for the lead role again he added. More than nepotism, we have a problem with racism. He continued, I fought against this for decades, and I hope dark skinned actresses become heroines Its very important.
