Guwahati News Desk: Bollywood actor Lin Laishram from Manipur has revealed an incident where two men followed her and continuously called her ‘coronavirus’ during her days in Bollywood.
Laishram worked in many Bollywood movies like Mary Kom, Om Shanti Om, Axone and Rangoon representing northeast in the global platform multiple times.
She shares that racism is still an issue in this hard time of COVID-19 pandemic.
And Northeastern talents in our own country have to go through this.
She further said that, “One is approached to play stereotypical roles like a spa girl, prostitute or a waiter. Not that playing these characters demeans an actor but it’s how we are seen and typecast. Its little knowledge about our culture that bothers us. When it comes to playing an achiever from the Northeast a non-North Eastern person is chosen as seen in Mary Kom. On the other hand, why not cast people from Northeast also as normal Indians in all walks of life which we are.”