What rubbish. Freddie Mercury’s parents were Gujarati’s.

Parsi’s identify as Indians, they don’t identify as Jains, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims or Charistians. But like the Jains, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and Christians in India they identify as Indian.

Residual racism? What are you talking about?

That’s not true. There are many dark skinned bollywood actors and to be fair South India has a thriving film industry that’s as big as the film industry in the north.Tamil films are a class apart from hindi films, are often dubbed into hindi, star dark skinned people and do very well in the box office.