Bollywoods obsession with beauty irks me: Konkona Sen Sharma - Page 6

Originally posted by: lhcj21

Kareena? Sometimes, not always!

Like I said, I thought Kajol was a natural beauty back in the day. Regardless of color, having good skin matters. Deepika and Bipasha have good skin and don't look drastically different without makeup.

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Originally posted by: Resident_Evil

It is NOT about skin color. Even at her maximum dusky/dark color Kajol was beautiful. Konkona however is not and she has to deal with it. I loved Kajol in the 90s more cuz she (for me) was breathtaking and had such sharp amazing features.

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Vidya not getting good roles after marriage is part of the same problem, just because shes a married woman now producers think she wont appeal to the masses.

Its actually the disgusting producers who are to blame, they take actresses who can reveal their bodies, do item dances and be show pieces in crappy movies.

Only a few producers take risks with talented actresses and they do make money most of the time, in fact they often do better business than many utterly flop commercial movies.

Mardaani did good business, was a semi hit! Kajol is returning with Dilwale, she did get a warm welcome back after marriage and motherhood, in My Name is Khan.

So its not the audiences, its the fault of the producers and directors and often the heros themselves who want young girls opposite them.🤢

And why shd the producers only cater to the backward classes and small towns? Dont multiplex audiences matter? They also bring in crowds.

Anyway, Konkona is pretty in an unconventional way, and shes a damn good actress so she shd definitely get more roles..

Originally posted by: kumro-potash

I agree with her. Bollywood is so so obsessed with beauty that all the time an actress needs to look drop dead gorgeous- like all the time. It's one thing to look presentable and quite another to ridiculously deck oneself up from head to toe with costly brands whenever you come out in public. And here we get comments like it's part of their job- part of their job really?? I don't think so. Not every hero heroine needs to learn about fashion. They don't get paid for how they dress up when they are spotted in airports or visiting restaurants with friends.

And here also its the women who get lot of flak and men get away easily. Look at SRK- how badly he dresses up at every event he turns up. Nobody cares. But women.. they need to look picture perfect.

Originally posted by: anonymous39

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.

That's why they go crazy over someone like Aishwarya with her light eyes or even Hrithik on the male side. Those light eye-light skin genes are hardly there in the desi population so it's weird that they consider almost the whole country ugly.

At least white people appreciate their own kind of beauty and don't constantly call the majority of their population ugly because they're too light.

Even on this forum, everyone jumps in to show how saintly they are when the topic of skin lightning products comes up but then spend the rest of their time calling everyone dark-skinned ugly in other topics.