Recognise desi beauties, not foreigners: Abhishek - Page 2

Originally posted by: Star_No_1

It goes both ways. Don't send your wife Aishwarya Rai to Hollywood. There's Mallika Sherawat trying her luck over there. Freida Pinto is making waves. Many others are on the verge of crossing over in the West. But when western girls like Katrina Kaif + Amy Jackson have been invited to be part of a film in India, there's a big hoo haa.

It is Abhishek Kapoor not Abhishek Bachchan. 😆

But agree with the rest of your post.

Depends on the appearance and role. like somebody mentioned, snooki can pass off being as a brown chick. Otherwise why even cast foreigners as complete desi because it looks so forced. Katrina had so many desi roles that now she doesn't look foreigner to me anymore. But at the same time I realize how different an average Indian girl would look like. Then there is Jacqueline, who does not look Indian at all.

Indians are caucasians too.

Atleast the North Indians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

there's a huge difference between how Indian actresses fare in the West as oppose to white women being readily accepted into Bollywood. The light skinned white women are unknown names and most of them not talented to justify the oppurtunities they receive. Aishwarya Rai is touted as the "most beautiful woman in the world" tag, Freida Pinto is a housename because of Slumdog Millionaire. Even then, these actresses will not be seen playing America's sweetheart whereas white origin actresses like Katrina Kaif can play an all-Indian village girl. Forget her looks, her accent doesn't even match. You'd never see any of our Indian actresses playing a southern belle in small town America because that cannot be easily justified. With bollywood, throw logic out the door, it's all about the the short Indian men getting their share of fair-skinned firangis, majority of Indian men can fantasize.

forgot to add,

If the producers were casting foreign chicks out of artistic integrity, I'd say more power to them but clearly that's not the case. As someone mentioned before, if in all of India there is a lack of talented Indian girls who can genuinely portray an Indian girl, why not opt for a talented African American? It seems that instead of searching talent, producers are going above and beyond believing to add merit to their movies by sticking a foreign (white) girl in there regardless of whether she is good for the role.

You don't see white girls dominating the Chinese movie industry. At this moment there's no film industry in which brown women can relate to. American (white) women can easily watch such actresses as jennifer Aniston (America's sweetheart) but what about brown skinned women?

As an indian American living in the USA...and being given equal opportunity...i don't have the heart or it would be morally correct for me to say that ...foreigners should not get a chance to work in India...when millions of indians get a chance to work in foreign countries and make their lives better...

Point noted...lets start with kat...what does he have to say to that? Shes a full blown actress fooling the masses.

i agree with what this speaker has said ..

Couldn't agree with him more. Great article!!

wats wrong with casting foreign born? as long as thy look th part.