Does anyone also feel this is subtle racism?

Took a glance and watched an episode while mom was watching this serial . They painted(lol) her black just to showcase that she is pretending to be ugly. Like black= ugly?

As a matter of fact I know in india it's still prevalent in considering black/brown tone as ugly and fair is beautiful. But using it in serials is kinda really regressive.

If this happened in america or any other country, it would have got cancelled.

Feel free to disagree