Though it's an attempt at telling people to love themselves for all that they are, it fails miserably as a terribly hypocritical movie in the sense that Bhumi Pednekar has been roped in to portray Latika.
I mean, you're trying to tell people that the world is a terrible place because it makes you hate yourself and that's all that marketing is about. And then you use a fair-skinned actress and put some absolutely horrific makeup (I didn't even know who Bhumi Pednekar was, and I knew she was not really dark-skinned the minute I saw her in the movie) to make her look dark-skinned to explain the injustice that is meted out to dark skinned women in our country?!
How about you right the wrongs and actually rope in a dark-skinned woman for the role if you really thought it no crime to be dark-skinned, Bollywood? What a laugh!
I mean, you're trying to tell people that the world is a terrible place because it makes you hate yourself and that's all that marketing is about. And then you use a fair-skinned actress and put some absolutely horrific makeup (I didn't even know who Bhumi Pednekar was, and I knew she was not really dark-skinned the minute I saw her in the movie) to make her look dark-skinned to explain the injustice that is meted out to dark skinned women in our country?!
How about you right the wrongs and actually rope in a dark-skinned woman for the role if you really thought it no crime to be dark-skinned, Bollywood? What a laugh!