--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are her eyes naturally greenish, or does she > use coloured contact lenses? > http://www.aishwaryaraisworld.com/aishwarya-rai-wallpapers/aishwarya-rai-wallpaper-102.jpg
The question is NOT what color her eyes were naturally, but what her FEATURES looked like originally. I recently saw my first Bollywood movie. It was called "Bride and Prejudice," and I watched it because it was indeed a takeoff on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and I thought that might be cute. Didn't like the dancing and singing much, but thought that the general acting was OK, for a remake of Jane Austen. But the thing that struck me, never having seen one of these movies before, was how WESTERN everyone looked. So I googled the subject of cosmetic surgery and Bolly- wood, and found numerous discussions of how almost every Indian star in the film has had cosmetic surgery *to make them look more Western*. It's supposedly what one *has* to do to be able to work in the Bollywood film industry. It's even more important for someone like Aishwarya Rai (one of the stars of the film), because she also works internationally as a model. So much for Indians being proud of their own culture and their own features, eh? A phenomenon like this is not driven by the "men at the top," declaring what the actors and actresses in their films have to look like; it's driven by the box office, and what Indian audiences want to see. They want to see Indians who look like Westerners, so all the actors in their films have them- selves cut to look like Westerners. Getcher nose job, chin job, eye job, boob job, and have your skin lightened to the point that you no longer look Indian, and you can become a big movie star in India. So how's that reality fit into the "Vedic ideal," eh?
