Shruti Das

At a time when the world is trying to unite against racism, promising Tollywood actress Shruti Das has lodged a complaint with the Kolkata Police alleging that she has been receiving a barrage of online hate comments regarding her “dusky skin tone” since 2019, after getting a break in Bengali serials. In doing this, Das, 23, has possibly become the first person from the Tollywood industry to formally lodge a complaint against such a form of abuse. Das, who is originally from the town of Katwa in Nadia district some 150 km from Kolkata, shifted to the city some two…