Actor Mammootty is being criticised for his racist remark during a promotional event of his latest film Christopher.
In a now-viral video on Twitter, Mammootty can be seen interacting with his co-star Aishwarya about his skin colour. The actor says that she could have addressed him as 'white' sugar instead of 'jaggery', which is made of 'black' karipetti.
Along with the video, a Twitter user wrote, "Colourism in our society is so deep-rooted and normalised. In this clip, #Mammootty can be seen casually cracking such colourist jokes. Most of his supporters may think it's harmless, but something like this shouldn't be normal, especially coming from someone like Mammootty."
Netizens react to Mammootty's video
Several other users also strongly reacted to the video and slammed Mammootty for his choice of words.
"This also wrong. Sad part is that it happens now also. Brown face is used by actors when they portray characters belonging to the backward classes," a user commented.
"Here Mammootty says that she could have called him "white" sugar instead of jaggery which is made from "black" karipetti, implying that white skin is good and black is not," read another comment.
Another user wrote, "True fact. Basically whole Kerala society is racist. They do not prefer people with dark skin. Sad state of educated Keralites."
"Racism is deeply rooted among the people as well. That's the reason you rarely find dark-skinned heroes, especially heroines," wrote a Twitter user.
About Christopher
Mammootty's Malayalam movie Christopher, which is an investigative thriller, also features Sneha, Shine Tom Chacko, Vinay Rai, Aishwarya Lekshmi, and Amala Paul.
Directed by B Unnikrishnan, the film hit the big screens on February 9.
