Hi Billy, On Nov 25, 2009, at 10:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ernie : > Yes, I am hip to the fair skin syndrome in India. Regardless, it seems to me > that the TI goes WAAAAAAAY overboard. Look at the paper a few days > and you'll see what I mean. Its been months now and, while I have skipped > a handful of days in that period, so far not even one ( one ) token > dark -skinned Bollywood / Tollywood actress or model.
Yes, they're about as rare as finding a fat female pop singer. This is a surprise why? > I mean., dark complexioned women can be every bit as much "sexpots" > as fair skinned women. Generally --surprise, surprise-- I am attracted to > Caucasian women, > but there sure can be exceptions. > > More to the point, the TI has a market. You can't tell me that it consists > of 100 % Brahmins who all look like Europeans. Not who *do* look like Europeans, but who want to. Do you think the market for People magazine looks like the celebrities it covers? Me thinks you under-estimate how strongly Indian culture worships fair skin: http://www.time.com/time/columnist/corliss/article/0,9565,475407,00.html > But the majority agreed that the stars on the screen are lighter-skinned than > most of the people watching them. It's not just a movie preoccupation. > "You'll find every girl in India trying to make herself more fair-skinned > than she is by every cream possible," observes Arun Mani. "Hence all the skin > care products in India are designed to match the mindset by advertising to > give a lighter skin. I am pretty sure most people in India don't know what > the word 'tanning' means Mothers don't let their daughters out the sun, lest > they will get dark skins. And guys in India always think the basic > requirement for a girl to be beautiful is that she should be fair! So > white-skinned people in India think they are good-looking. If you look at > south Indian movies, the actor might be dark-skinned; but the actress will be > light-skinned." Often they are imported, as Madras' ace auteur Mani Rathnam > did with the Nepali actress Manisha Koirala. Blame Indian media culture if you will, but its unfair to single out TI for this one. -- Ernie P.
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