Freida Pinto- Your 2 cents on her?

Hey!

After Aish and before Priyanka Chopra there was Freida Pinto. Stuck in the middle, she seems to be forgotten.

What is your opinion of her and her film choices? Do you think moving to Hollywood was a good decision? Or did it just invite being typecast or maybe not being cast at all?

Coming to her looks, we see a polarization of opinions where Westerners seem to think she is quite good-looking while the audience back home argues that she is an ordinary Indian girl and is nothing special. Do you think it's just a case of differing beauty standards? Or is it that her home country doesn't appreciate girls who look like her? She has also argued that it is because of her skin tone that she is not thought of as good-looking here in India. Valid complaint?

IMO, Westerners like her features and Indians don't. She is not the typical Indian beauty that Indians like nor is she exotic like Katrina Kaif. Unfortunately for her, that means most people here will not think she is a great beauty.

What do you think of her personality and acting skills? She also seems to have picked up a British accent from somewhere. She has received flak for calling out Bollywood and India in general for discrimination on the basis of skin colour etc.A lot of people seem to think she is a 'traitor'.

What say?

Not pretty. Bad actor. A very boring package.

I think she is quite good looking and more importantly she embraced fashion. Her skin tone absolutely helped set her apart in a good way IMO.The western press loves someone "exotic" who does fashion really well and Freida does both RC and casual well.

Overrated in terms of both looks and talent.

I think she is very pretty (in fact I think she could be used as a sign that Indian obsession with fair skin is alive and well since so many Indians find a taller girl with symmetric striking features ordinary. She is most assuredly not the ordinary Indians I see :).

She is not a very good actress and didn't seem to improve much even when working with talented directors. There are very few - even drop dead gorgeous girls (regardless of skin color) - who continue to get acting roles if they don't also have talent. Those girls get bit parts in action films (why I'm a little nervous for Deepika) where they look hot and nothing else or no work at all.

Like her dusky looks... acting wise she is overrated

Dont really care about her

IDK her choice of films. Because besides Slumdog Millionaire, I've seen her in that Planet of Apes movie. Ahh.. she's okay.. as an actor.

She is average as an actor and in looks