--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> 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.
Her eyes are naturally like this. She is from Karnataka but her ancestry is from Kashmir. > > 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. Saw that too.Its okay but not my favorate with her. I love most Devdas and Taal, in Devdas I think she acts best,Taal is best for the music (by A.R. Rahman) > > 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. I have no idea if she would have applied plastic surgery, but I do know that she looses or adds weight for specific roles.She is very disciplined http://www.ourbollywood.com/2006/08/ben_kingsley_all_praises_for_a.html > 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? Always in India, being fair-skinned is looked upon superior, so models or actors with fair skin have better chances. Thats maybe a caste thing, lower castes are often associated with darker skin. I have been surprised how Indians call themselves 'white' and 'black' where we just see different shades of brown. There is certainly a strong tendency of westernization in indian films, which you can see in the fashion, the locations, but there is a certain westernization in indian society at large. Simply, the west is still regarded as rich, and someone who has a job in America or England is thought of as lucky.
