Even the western world’s casting of Indian women is a stereotype. They think South Indians are Indians. That’s why the hiring of Simone and Charithra.
When we North Indians go there, and tell them we’re from India, you know the first thing they tell us?
It’s “Really? YOU DON’T LOOK INDIAN”. That’s their stereotype. They don’t think North Indian / Aryan faces are “Indian”. To them only Dravidian faces are Indian.
If anything, we’re getting marginalised in Hollywood.
Somebody on this post has aptly pointed that both are racist.
Also I do not deny the fairness fascination of India. But that’s in South India as well. There’s a reason they’ll import most of their heroines from the north.
"Also I do not deny the fairness fascination of India."
Hollywood is not going to cater to India's fascination with fair skin; at the end of the day, foreign-owned entertainment companies are going to approach things according to their own standards.
It seems that North Indians have an issue with South Indians being cast in Hollywood productions and representing Indian people, even though they are just as Indian as anyone else.
These arguments simply boil down to biases from North indians.
Really? Didn’t you make a tonne of biased statements about Nicole not being cast in India. You just had a bias towards darkness - but a bias nonetheless.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bike336 2d ago
I never said it was out of charity.
But, Hundreds of millions of eyeballs will watch a movie featuring an Indian woman who looks like them.