Recently,
many
celebrities
lauded
Hindustan
Unilever's
decision
to
drop
words
such
as
'fairness',
'lightening'
and
'whitening'
from
their
beauty
products.
The
decision
was
hailed
to
be
a
positive
step
towards
ending
discrimination
and
prejudice
based
on
skin
colour.
Actor
Nawazuddin
Siddiqui
revealed
how
he
was
swayed
by
fairness
products
when
he
was
younger.
He
shared
that
he
used
to
apply
fairness
creams
hoping
to
achieve
miraculous
results.
Nawaz
also
questioned
the
lack
of
existence
of
dark
skinned
actors
in
mainstream
Hindi
film
industry.
"I
too
grew
up
applying
these
fairness
creams,
expecting
miraculous
results.
In
fact,
I
remember
that
once,
I
didn't
even
realise
that
the
cream
I
was
using
wasn't
Fair
and
Lovely,
but
some
fake
called
Fare
and
Lovely.
I
spent
a
lot
of
time
trying
to
make
my
skin
fairer," said
Nawazuddin,
speaking
to
Cinema
Express.
He
further
said
that
not
looking
like
a
conventional
actor
had
its
benefit
in
making
him
focus
on
bettering
his
craft.
"In
mainstream
Bollywood
cinema,
is
there
any
really
dark
actor,
male
or
female?
I
had
an
inferiority
complex
at
first.
But
I
guess
the
good
thing
is,
I
realised
that
since
I
couldn't
do
anything
about
my
face,
I
would
be
better
start
focusing
on
my
craft.
I
knew
I
was
nothing
when
it
came
to
my
personality
or
my
looks.
It
took
some
time
to
come
out
of
that
trauma,
but
I'm
glad
I
made
that
decision," he
said.
Nawazuddin
was
last
seen
in
the
film
Raat
Akeli
Hai,
also
starring
Radhika
Apte
and
Shweta
Tripathi.
The
crime
drama
was
directed
by
first
time
director
Honey
Trehan.
Akeli
Hai
released
on
Netflix.