Are We Missing Diversity In Bollywood?

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Shaitaan Haiwan

@Shaitan-Haiwan

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Posted: 11 years ago

On a more serious note, I feel as though, especially with actresses, that the actresses that we have currently - all of them are very similar looking and they don't represent the diversity that India has to offer.

For example - Alia, Shraddha, Pari, Sonakshi, Anushka - are deemed to be the upcoming bunch - but they all have that "north" Indian look, and they're all fair skinned.

We don't have distinct looking actresses, this may have been an issue in the past but at least in the past we had actresses like Kajol, Manisha Koirala, Urmila, Nandita Das, Konkana, Bipasha Basu, - who looked different than the mainstream commercial actresses.

Deepika and Priyanka may have been distinct before, but it seems they are becoming lighter and lighter as the days go by.

This topic is not only about color of skin, but about the way someone looks...Is anyone even unique anymore? 😕...10 years ago we had Preity-Rani-Ash three VERY unique looking actresses...I just feel like currently they all are not AS different. I just don't feel that the current group is diverse.

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light_year

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Posted: 11 years ago

Its it glorify the dark skin and mock the fair skin topic again. Sonakshi is bengali and is more of nutrel complextion. And there is another mohinjadaro female who is dusky, not much south indians though.. but even in south india they they prefer North Indian models as actress.

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Sandhir_fan1

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Posted: 11 years ago

Let me tell you first that only north indians are not fair skinned people!! Go to Mangalore and you will find people far more fair than your so called north indians 🥱

There are dark skinned people in both the regions! It is unfair to generalise that if you are fair you are more like 'north indian' !!

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Dhee Jattan Di

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Posted: 11 years ago

Since the average skin colour of Northies is lighter, "fair skin" is associated more with them than it is with South Indians.

Sonakshi is quite dark and has good features, Pari has the typical Indian look, Anushka is pretty, Shraddha is the conventionally beautiful one and then we have Alia.. who has a cute school kid look. So I do not believe we're missing diversity.

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Cheesy-Chants

@Cheesy-Chants

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Posted: 11 years ago

they may be distinct but off screen only...on screen they all look same,painted and plastic...

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CeaselessBanter

@CeaselessBanter

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Posted: 11 years ago

We could have diversity, but people who look like Dhanush are automatically called ugly regardless of how talented they are. How can we have diversity then ? That Mohenjodaro girl was also called ugly. Not so long ago, people who looked like Rani, Kajol and Karishma, not exactly great lookers but excellent actors were in BW. Now all we have are pale imitations.

If someone who looks like Lupita N'yongo comes to BW and has her talent will we shut the door because she is dark skinned ? BW's loss

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Posted: 11 years ago

Originally posted by: light_year
Its it glorify the dark skin and mock the fair skin topic again. Sonakshi is bengali and is more of nutrel complextion. And there is another mohinjadaro female who is dusky, not much south indians though.. but even in south india they they prefer North Indian models as actress.

Sonakshi is not bengali, she's bihari