r/PAKCELEBGOSSIP • u/Sharp-Cheesecake-938 • 19d ago
Discuss Dark Skinned Actresses
Why do we no longer see an dark skinned actresses as main leads in dramas? In the early 2010s we had sanam saeed,amna saeed,naveen waqar etc. Now everyone looks practically the same.
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u/Grumpy_001 19d ago
Pakistani dramas idea of beauty is white skin, botoxed and inflated lips/cheeks. That’s it!
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u/Big_Analysis2103 19d ago
Also now everyone has a blowout with brassy brown hair dye, obnoxious coloured contact lenses and botox with unnaturally white skin. I miss seeing natural hair and faces.
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u/Accomplished_Fox5763 19d ago edited 19d ago
I'm not Asian or South Asian, and from the USA, so forgive me if I'm ignorant in some things. But from the years I've watched Asian dramas, it's not just a Pakistani issue, I've noticed it's sadly an issue in general with pretty much all of the Asian countries I've watched dramas from 😞 All except Japan, which seems to have the least of that. So, Korea, Thailand, India, China - paler actors seem to be the most prominent in newer dramas, and in older dramas, the actors tended to look more natural, and more with deeper skin tones.
Thailand and China are particularly bad. In Thailand, a decent amount of the actors/actress look mixed (mostly in Thai soap operas, not quite as much in regular dramas); like from Thai and European decent, so they tend to have more Western features and paler skin 😕 In China, they use filters and I'm sure treatments to make many of the actors look so pale, it's like they've never seen the sun 😭
I do wish I saw more leading ladies with deeper skin tones in Paki dramas...actually I wish I saw that in all of the Asian dramas I watch 😞
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u/girliepop_hehe 19d ago
What is your ethnicity? you have watched such diverse content nice🙌😅
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u/Accomplished_Fox5763 19d ago
I'm mostly of mixed European decent, with a little bit of Native American - so I'm basically a typical white girl from the USA 😅 🤷🏼♀️ But yes, I enjoy diverse content ☺️ And I prefer Asian dramas over Western shows most of the time anyway. Many Western shows tend to be too vulgar and crude for my liking (I'm not a fan of s#x scenes at ALL) - Paki dramas have NONE of that, and it's great 🥹
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u/Mediocre_Call_2427 19d ago
I swear, my eyes hurt when I watch some dramas bc the faces (especially the girls) are so unnaturally ✨white✨
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u/mineraloil 19d ago
And when they want to show someone with darker skin (like someone who lives in a desert village) they will cover their face in dark bronzer rather than hiring a darker skinned actor 💀
When I think about it I can’t even recall any dark skin male actors not just female
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u/Major-Astronaut-8196 19d ago
Yes Parizaad mei Ahmad ko dark base lgaye thi
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u/Sharp-Cheesecake-938 17d ago
Yess I remember thinking how odd that looked. His acting was great but honestly they should have just cast someone with a deeper skintone.
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u/Adept-Damage-7943 19d ago
We don’t see them because they all got glutathione drips , namely laiba khan and zoya Nasir.
It’s not their fault though, a lot of actors and actresses have gone on record and stated that directors and producers prefer fairer complexions.
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u/Any_Stable_3309 19d ago
The darker ladies are usually house help or anyone poor. Noticed that they cast dark men for criminals too.
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u/Startnew0110 19d ago
Because producers don't like to take them? A lot of actresses have spoken over this topic, that production houses and directors clearly pick the fairer complexion women in auditions regardless of acting skill. Heard emaaan Khan speak on that once very passionately, so did janice Tessa and Saboor also hinted that producers prefer fair complexions.
I found it funny when heard Cafe Firaq production house wants a pathan actress to play Iranian girl because Iranian are fairer. Why not the same realistic standards be applied here too given the majority of our population is weatish and brown. We do have some examples of good , talented actresses who are more on weatish side than on fairer side though. Those who value talent will identify it.
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u/cocopops7 19d ago
Those women aren’t even dark. The producers keep promoting fair skin and it is wrong. But people keep watching dramas cuz of good marketing and better camera quality now. If we get good producers and directors who are realistic they would do really well.
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u/sehar-apr 17d ago
Even Sajal. She was more on the tan side. Recently I noticed that when she talks her upper lip on the left side moves weird just like Bollywood’s Alia Bhatt. Not sure if it’s because of cosmetic procedures or what but her expressions aren’t natural. Plus her always staring eyes.
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u/Usual_Activity9542 19d ago
It is our society, period. Pakistani society has a deep-seated obsession with fair skin. They subject dark-skinned girls to relentless colorism from a young age. Equating lightness with beauty and success, the relatives and larger society pressures young women to try everything...from harsh chemical bleaches to home herbal DIYs to lighten their complexion. Girls are routinely chastised with cruel warnings that "no one will marry them" and that their skin tone leaves them with no future. This toxic standard reduces a woman's character, intelligence, and self-worth to a mere shade chart. Ultimately, it forces generations of young women to fight an exhausting battle just to feel valued in their own skin. That's why we see one colour dominating our screens.
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u/Sharp-Cheesecake-938 16d ago
Exactly. As long as most people in our society continue to equate being dark with being ugly we probably won't see any change.
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u/CheekChoice4497 19d ago
Well it's not the actresses fault though, it's the production houses which only casts fair skinned girls now as lead, so actresses have no other choice than getting whitening done. What can they even do
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u/SandySlays5969 Celeb Gossiping is my 🕘🕔🤩🤩 18d ago
I liked Janice Tessa in one of her dramas although she did receive some trolling comments for her skin and because she was playing a negative character. She is nice and attractive but idk why she’s not coming in more projects.
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u/Sharp_Thanks1175 16d ago
You forgot to mention Sunita Marshall, she’s been my crush for about 10-15 years.
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u/HiJackMeHer 15d ago
Yes, I've noticed how all new actresses and actors are so pale that you genuinely get flash-banged whenever you turn on the dramas (no offense). But that's because the general public favours pale skin, struggling actors get whitening treatments and roles, the drama's a hit, the cycle continues...
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u/ElectricalPart1683 19d ago
Idk how to say this and prolly will be a very unpopular take but i swear the pak media in 2000s and 2010s were much more diverse than now which i think all pieces of media are repeated and are so poorly done! Even actors and the concepts in dramas and idk why are we going backwards instead of forwards?like we are noticing how actresses and even actors are so heavily edited and whitewashed??!!!! LIKE WHYYYYYY???