Suhana Khan slams trolls

Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan’s daughter Suhana Khan recently penned a long post about being trolled for her skin colour on social media and shared the kind of comments she often gets. Sharing the same, Suhana hit back at trolls and demanded an end to colourism in the country. Amid this, Suhana even shared comments where trolls accused her of getting her skin lightened via treatments. Now, Suhana has hit back at them and mentioned that she would never get it done.

In a a maturely written, encouraging, even necessary statement Suhana gave on the double standards of Indians to discriminate each other despite us all being just different shades of brown with different degrees of melanin.

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The star kid posted a beautiful photo of herself and then a series of comments she has been receiving from Instagram users calling her ‘kaali’.

 

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There’s a lot going on right now and this is one of the issues we need to fix!! this isn’t just about me, it’s about every young girl/boy who has grown up feeling inferior for absolutely no reason. Here are just a few of the comments made about my appearance. I’ve been told I’m ugly because of my skin tone, by full grown men and women, since I was 12 years old. Other than the fact that these are actual adults, what’s sad is that we are all indian, which automatically makes us brown – yes we come in different shades but no matter how much you try to distance yourself from the melanin, you just can’t. Hating on your own people just means that you are painfully insecure. I’m sorry if social media, Indian matchmaking or even your own families have convinced you, that if you’re not 5″7 and fair you’re not beautiful. I hope it helps to know that I’m 5″3 and brown and I am extremely happy about it and you should be too. #endcolourism

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Suhana’s Instagram post caption reads,

There’s a lot going on right now and this is one of the issues we need to fix!! this isn’t just about me, it’s about every young girl/boy who has grown up feeling inferior for absolutely no reason. Here are just a few of the comments made about my appearance. I’ve been told I’m ugly because of my skin tone, by full grown men and women, since I was 12 years old. Other than the fact that these are actual adults, what’s sad is that we are all indian, which automatically makes us brown – yes we come in different shades but no matter how much you try to distance yourself from the melanin, you just can’t. Hating on your own people just means that you are painfully insecure. I’m sorry if social media, Indian matchmaking or even your own families have convinced you, that if you’re not 5″7 and fair you’re not beautiful. I hope it helps to know that I’m 5″3 and brown and I am extremely happy about it and you should be too. #endcolourism

Suhana is studying films at New York University. She completed her graduation from Accordingly College in England. Some time ago, she made her acting debut with a short film called The Grey Part of Blue.

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