Bolloywood’s fair maiden Dia Mirza is all set to shock her fans by turning several shades darker for Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Dus Kahaniyan’. For her role as Sia in the short story ‘Zahir’ opposite Manoj Bajpai, Dia’s skin tone has been made 15 shades darker than her normal peaches and cream complexion.

When Dia was told about the requirement, the lady naturally asked that a duskier actress could be taken for the role, but Sanjay Gupta was adamant on casting Dia for the role as ‘she has the eyes that say it all’.

So, now the actress takes almost three to three-and-a-half hours of grueling make-up sessions, trying to get the right skin tone, instead of a normal 45 minutes makeup session including hair and other stuff.