
What Is Your Brown Number?
Animation
Overview
The film talks about how in India everyone wants to be light skinned, and how there is a sense of idealism and beauty associated with fair skin, whereas it is negativity and repulsion that is associated with dark skin.
Top Cast
Sonia Nair
Sonia Nair
Sonia Nair
Soman Nair
Soman Nair
Soman Nair
Saattvic
Saattvic
Saattvic
Ram Menon
Ram Menon
Ram Menon
Aditya Antony Mathew
Aditya Antony Mathew
Aditya Antony Mathew
Alpesh Sigh Jadeja
Alpesh Sigh Jadeja
Alpesh Sigh Jadeja
Sunita Kathiwada
Sunita Kathiwada
Sunita Kathiwada
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