Short film
Dark Skin
2021 · 11 min
A quiet, painful slice of life that lets everyday rejection and colourism sting without melodrama.
- Directed by
- Shivankar Arora
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Starring
- Ankita Mittal, Ankit Narang, Anuradha Sharma
- Overview
- ‘Dark Skin’ follows Ankita, played by Ankita Mittal, a woman who has been at the end of multiple rejections for marriage proposals because she is considered to have a darker complexion than what the groom’s family would want.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, family, gender, isolation
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Shivankar Arora
- Genres
- Drama, Family
- Starring
- Ankita Mittal, Ankit Narang, Anuradha Sharma

