The Colour of Darkness is a 2016 film written and directed by Girish Makwana, focusing on the 2009 attacks on Indian students in Melbourne and the caste system in India.

According to Makwana, he got the initial idea of the story during a phone conversation with his father around the time of 2009 attacks on Indian students in Melbourne.

His father's experiences of discrimination in India gave Makwana an idea to connect two tales and two countries.

The Board insisted on several changes such as removing the word achhoot (untouchable), and cutting a dialogue which described India as the "most racist country in the world."

About the censorship, Makwana commented "The fact is that untouchability (achhoot) is a part of our history and is still prevalent and it seems strange that a movie which explores caste discrimination has been asked to beep the word.