Nawazuddin Siddiqui finally opens up about the cryptic tweet highlighting racism in Bollywood

On the cinema front, Nawaz is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film 'Munna Michael'. Tiger Shroff will be seen playing the lead role in the Sabbir Khan directorial.

New Delhi: On Saturday, Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui stunned social media users by tweeting something really unexpected. The 43-year-old star, apparently, implied via his social media post that discrimination on the basis of skin colour exists in the film industry.

"Thank U 4 making me realise dat I cannot b paired along wid d fair & handsome bcz I m dark & not good looking, but I never focus on that," he tweeted. Post this, the entire social media went abuzz and the cyber citizens started talking about the biases in our society.

However, Nawazuddin later issued a clarification on the tweet and said that it aimed at a particular individual and not the whole fraternity. "I tweeted what I felt. Someone had said something to me and that tweet is a reply to that," ANI quoted him as saying. 

Nawaz further said, "No, the industry is not like that. But that person belongs to the industry, whose reply I have given. I have been hearing that since childhood but still I am still here and the industry has accepted me. When I was young and I expressed my desire to become an actor, people around me said, 'Have you looked at yourself?'. Even later, when I used to go to offices in Mumbai, everyone used to tell me that I don't look like an actor. So these things are there everywhere, not just in Bollywood."

On the cinema front, he is gearing up for the release of his upcoming film 'Munna Michael'. Tiger Shroff will be seen playing the lead role in the Sabbir Khan directorial.