Bollywoods obsession with beauty irks me: Konkona Sen Sharma - Page 4

Originally posted by: ILoveSonam

Not only fashionistas,all the duskies look the same without make-up tho.😛

Sonam has pimples?As far as i know she's a dusky with darker circles around eyes.Nothing else.In fact she has good facial features.She herself posts her without make-up pics on Twitter/Insta.

Originally posted by: fivestars

exactly! if people like natural beauty as some are claiming here! then they should even like sonam's are whoever without make up na?

sonam has sharp facial features which koko is lacking !

Point to be made here is all these other actresses who hide their real complexion under layers of white makeup DO get lead roles because of the desi obsession with fair skin.

I think this was true more before. Deepika romanced Srk when she was 21 and Katrina with salmon when she was 21 as well. That's very young! If Alia bhatt who is now this age romanced Srk and salman it would not be accepted by audiences. I think the elder heros- the khans have reached a point where they are unable to romance young women because it visually looks wrong. It's awkward to watch. Also cinema is chaninging so I feel her statement is outdated. But it's also true to the extent that youth and beauty for women is sometimes a priority over talent. But honestly if that's a priority for an actress- she wont last in the industry. Katrina just got lucky with the time frame she was in. I feel like there needs to be more roles for women of all ages overall. And it's about time the khans romance women there own age. It's a discriminatory

So if you cover your face with make-up, you get called out for hiding your imperfections and if you don't, even then get called out for displaying the imperfections...LMAO, the double edged sword.

Frankly speaking, there is nothing wrong with using make-up to hide your imperfections if it makes one more confident and presentable. In this age, who doesn't. Sure one can blame the society, norm etc etc, but it is what it is. Most of us want to look attractive cuz end of the day humans are shallow and they get drawn to beauty. Bitter or not, that's the reality. No wonder the multimillion beauty industry.

As for BW, every actress out there uses layers of make-up in movies to hide their imperfections, at least in the commercial cinemas whether it's Miss fashionita or Safedi ki chamkar Deepika or the plastic queens. No wonder we get the flawless porcelain finish. Even Konkona herself has done the same in Wake-up Sid. She hasn't given us Ooo so natural face in that movie. End of the day, beauty sells, the same reason why even heroes plaster their hideous faces to hide their imperfections.

Anyways, OT: It's the same old debate. And it won't end until and unless society gets revamped. Not only BW, even HW is all about men doing the super action sequences while heroines play the damsel in distress. Of course exceptions are there. So yeh, it's the worldly obsession with beauty.

Everyone is obsessed with beauty but unfortunately Indians are quite self-hating and obsess about the type of beauty almost none of them actually posses.

Originally posted by: ILoveSonam

That happens in this forum specially If the actress is NOT their favourite!😆

Originally posted by: Siddymfc

I think this was true more before. Deepika romanced Srk when she was 21 and Katrina with salmon when she was 21 as well. That's very young! If Alia bhatt who is now this age romanced Srk and salman it would not be accepted by audiences. I think the elder heros- the khans have reached a point where they are unable to romance young women because it visually looks wrong. It's awkward to watch. Also cinema is chaninging so I feel her statement is outdated. But it's also true to the extent that youth and beauty for women is sometimes a priority over talent. But honestly if that's a priority for an actress- she wont last in the industry. Katrina just got lucky with the time frame she was in. I feel like there needs to be more roles for women of all ages overall. And it's about time the khans romance women there own age. It's a discriminatory

This total obsession with beauty and makeup must be a recent trend because Smita Patil and Amitabh Bachchan were big stars back in the 80s, and both were not conventionally good-looking or fair skinned. Smita did not put on layers of white paint either. And yet people loved her because of her acting skills. She acted in many commercially successful blockbusters as well as in parallel cinema.

If ugly HR and kajol can make it to superstardom, anyboby can. Ask Ajay.