Originally posted by: hotchoco
That's my point. It doesn't matter what their real age is. They're going to play younger to appeal to younger crowds. Ranveer was playing a college kid in Gully Boy so around 20 at most. Their age is never clearly stated but they basically play guys in their 20s. Ranbir is forever coming of age in almost all his movies. His character's concerns are the types a 25 year old would have.
Salman is 55 and was laughably playing a character in his 20s in Radhe - the heroine spends half the movie thinking he's a struggling new model and calls him a cute boy multiple times. That's why it got bashed so much because he looked like a grandpa while he was pretending to be so young. You can play younger but it has to be believable in a way that the audience will buy it. It was a bad and trashy movie but it would have worked if Ranveer was in it instead.
Regarding fair and fit, those are beauty standards in India and almost everywhere. I agree with you that people are superficial. I'm sorry but I don't want to watch chubby people with their rolls jiggling as they walk unless the characterization is about that. There have been psychological experiments done and even babies automatically prefer more beautiful looking people. It's in-built in us by nature. Back in the day, before modern technology, a person who had clear skin, shiny hair, and fit body would be an indication that they are healthy and disease-free. It's naturally more appealing to us for that reason.
My question is why there is no young actor playing his real age in Bollywood, instead of oldies acting to be young if audience is so much concerned about seeing stars of their own age?
Of course an old looking guy acting young would get bashed, because society has set standards on how people of a certain age should act.
Beauty standards being everywhere like that is not an excuse. Sexual harassment happens everywhere. Does it become okay because of it? Babies act like that so what? Are we babies or are we grown ups? Something being "naturally in-built" in us doesn't mean we can't grow beyond it. That's lazy excuse to not change yourself. Our ancestors were naturally inbuilt to hunt down animals for food. We grew past that and don't do it anymore because of evolution.
Don't say sorry unless you really feel it.
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