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India: The Young And Fair International Actresses In Bollywood

Categories: South Asia, India, Ethnicity & Race, Film, Humor, International Relations

Santosh at Über Desi finds that almost all foreign actresses recently introduced in Bollywood movies are young fair skinned attractive females. The blogger opines [1] that: “an unhealthy obsession with skin color is not a new phenomenon to Indian society, a deep rooted post-colonial hangover, that seems to manifest itself in weird acts like smearing bleach on our skin to attain the ultimate nirvana of having ‘fair skin’.”