'Anupama' actress Madalsa Sharma said people discriminated against her father-in-law Mithun Chakraborty and didn't cast him initially. People told him that because of being dark-skinned "it's not going to work", she added. "But when he did his first film, 'Mrigayaa', he got National Award…Later, people who had told him…that he won't…sustain...those people only cast him in their films," she stated.