As soon as the trailer of Super 30 dropped online, netizens called out the makers for 'brownfacing' Hrithik Roshan — who plays Patna-born math wiz Anand Kumar in the drama — and reinforcing the class-colour stereotype. Broach the subject with leading lady Mrunal Thakur, and she feels the audience has jumped the gun.

"I think it was required for the character. Whenever I saw Hrithik in his dark complexion, I would end up calling him Anand and not Hrithik. When people see the film, they will understand why it was necessary. In Love Sonia (2018), they [the makers] made me three to four shades darker, and it worked."