Aahana Kumra recently took to her Instagram handle recently to dedicate an admiration post to former Indian cricket captain and pace bowler Jhulan Goswami in a series of posts. Aahana specified the photos were not part of a film promotion, but were just meant to be a tribute to Jhulan, for her incredible journey in the world of women's cricket. However, it is her dark face make-up that has drawn much criticism and backlash from the netizens.

She posted the photos with the caption, “No I'm not promoting any film. This is purely a tribute to a woman I admire the most after spending time with her and learning her whole story about her journey, her hardships and her passion for the sport! @jhulangoswami fondly called jhulan di by all her team mates is loved and admired by all the members of the Indian women's cricket team! This photo series is my tribute to her and hopefully as actresses one day we can all break stereo types and be the best versions of ourselves by telling the greatest stories!! @jhulangoswami thank you for your story! And I wish and pray the best for you forever! Your fan! AK (sic).”

 

 

 

 

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Netizens were offended by the ‘unnecessary’ imitation of Jhulan’s dark complexion and even called Aahana’s tribute post ‘disrespectful’ and ‘disgusting’. An Instagram user wrote, “What's with the darker tone make-up? Instead why don't we hire actors with the similar color tone , it would have been so much better and looked far more natural (sic).” Another user wrote “This is quite disgusting. Super unnecessary for the makeup to be "dusky/ dark". This is disrespectful (sic).” “What a shame that you need such make up to depict that character which is not even looking convincing. Infact it's ridiculing the perosn who is a legend (sic),” another comment read. Check out the comments below:

However, Jhulan gave a big thumbs up to Aahana for her take and wrote, “Great job keep it up (sic),” in the comments section. Aahana was elated receiving Jhulan’s comment and replied, ““@jhulangoswami it means the world to me J that you have liked my effort!! Thank you for inspiring me to keep working hard!!!!! You're simply the best (sic).”

(Source: Instagram)