The Family Man creators Raj and DK have spoken out over their decision to put Samantha Akkineni in the brown face in the second season.
In the recently released second season of Amazon Prime Video's The Family Man, creators Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK have dismissed accusations of painting actress Samantha Akkineni in brown faces. They said that they made every decision in the character's best interests and that they are responsible filmmakers.
The directors noted in an interview that they didn't hire an actor of a different ethnicity to play Raji, the Sri Lankan Tamil rebel who battles Manoj Bajpayee's Srikant Tiwari in season two.