Is Bollywood Racist?

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Re: Is Bollywood Racist?

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There was an incident two years ago when actress Pooja Bhatt, daughter of Indian soft pornographer Mahesh Bhatt told a dark skinned actress in Hyderabad to forget about acting in Hindi movies and to concentrate on Telugu movies instead. There is an undercurrent of discrimination based on colour in Hindi films - it cannot be called racism as there are no racial differences involved, just those of colour. This difference, however, does not apply to the huge regional film industries in the South of India where people are dark and do not have any qualms or reservations about choosing actresses with more realistic and natural looks. The Mumbai film industry probably gets reported more on in Pakistan as the Hindi language is understood to an extent there while Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada etc, all languages with rich literature and film industries fall flat because theya re completely different from Hindi. For someone who understands the Southern languages, their films are usually preferable to some of the Mumbai crap.

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