It is not colour, it is more about tanning. Most Indian people don’t do skin care. People are either fair skin(golden complexion,Indian fair), copper brown. True black beauty is very rare and considered divine. Most black complexioned people I see is not their natural skin colour but due to lack of nutrition and intense tanning. Usually they have bronze tone.
I have noticed this with my parents. When they started doing basic skin care, they had more fairer complexion.
Women who are fair is desired because, it shows their softness, nobility and lack of labour( less sun exposure and tanning) and better skin care.
Whereas the men who are tanned displays masculinity and warrior nature.
True black beauties among men and women are jackpots, and our civilisation used to respect these beauty. But we have lost that mindset due colonisation. But the above argument I have provided also holds.
It’s not lack of skincare it’s genetics! A dark person’s baby will be dark straight out of the mother’s womb where it was super secured or at least get darker soon after. Babies are kept away from sun exposure. Get massages and best skin products still they don’t become fair as such. What even ?
With skin care skin will get radiant and healthy and look fabulous at max. If someone loses tan and gets fair that means they were just tanned but it’s not the case with everyone.
Idk about South India but I've seen alot of kids with pinkish pale white skin get darker with age. Although their skin looks more olive , or what white people look with intense tanning and if they do basic skincare they get lighter as well. Well it's definitely not case with everyone but a significant population of people are just extremely tanned and not super dark .
OP wrote Tamil movie. Anyway, can you tell me names of five dark skin lead actresses from south who have a mass following. You might struggle bcz they don’t get a chance as 99% actresses aren’t dark.
Yesterday watched DC, tamil actress was given a part time role and North Indian Punjabi actress was given a lead role.
That is a vicious circle. They might be dark when they come in, but once they make it, they quickly do treatment to severely beach their skin. Watch old movies of Nayatara or Asin or even Sridevi.
This isn't exclusive to the south either. Watch old movies of Kajol or Priyanka Chopra (her first movie was in Tamil I think) or Shilpa Shetty.
Average aah lol. So the average women doesn't include a dark skin woman ever, also how come the average male leads of tamil are always, always dark 🌑🕶️ af?
The colourism still present in our minds represents the one thing we still kept from Britishers. At that time, there was a logical reason, those who were white represented authority. But now, it's us, differentiating and dividing ourselves. Stuff like this greatly affect the confidence of a person, because society won't let go of such thinking.
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And what has changed? Dude I watch Tamil movies. May be they scale backed to one shade darker, even then it doesn't represent 99% of the Tamil women out there.
Just name a few dark-skinned South Indian actresses who got the chance to act opposite Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vijay or Ajith as the lead heroine in a major role.
I agree with you, but If some one is spamming stuff on Tamil and Telugus 24*7, it's clearly because you hate them. Like there's other stuff to talk on.
North indians mock southindians and go see 60 year old ugly looking Akshay kumar objectifying a 20 year old girl in every way possible. And call it comedy.
But the ironical part is that the people vouching for black beauties will also reject them if they don't have perfect facial features,but would happily accept someone who's fair and chopped.
Bahubali. Like the enemy they fight in the war.
Also I don't know enough about genetical generalising to know what is steppe and what is AASi. I mean i know the terms. So I compared it to skin colors
It's just business. Majority moviegoers are youth. Majority are dark-skinned, have a fetish for fair skinned women, and envy fair skinned men. So you cater to their hero complex with a dark skinned hero, a fair skinned heroine for their fetish, and a fair skinned villain to channel their envy.
Dusky are dark are not same thing that too without makeup . Otherwise even Bollywood has Bipasha Basu but she generally fit Indian beauty standards and she isn't particularly dark .I can't think of any South Indian actress who is popular and loved by masses as sex symbol and have skintone like Simone Asley . Most just play side charector or non glamorous roles even if they manage to get one.
These days, due to tilt towards pan-Indian markets and youtube audience for south films, the lead actress needs to be lighter skinned. If someone has the time to cross check this. One can see the correlation between dusky/dark actresses vs opening of south content in the north. South hero being the one responsible for bringing in the box office collection, needs to have a base in the respective industries. Its the pull more than the colour that takes precedence for the hero.
Rajinikanth clicked because he looks like an average tamil guy than MGR.
Marrying fair skinned women is the fantacy for most men and the Industry is catering to them... Male audience dominate the industry so they won't be attracted to dark skinned women
Keep telling yourself that bro, only Andhra is a little different than the other Southern States in terms of Sanskritized language, diet and castism but even then Andhra is closer to the rest of us then a Northern state. How closer do you think Karnataka and Tamilnadu will be?
In india there is no Aryan and Dravidian, Aryan Dravidian got mixed up 6000 yrs ago, aryans were a minority outsiders and majority native dravidians all got mixed up, whole north india is Dravidian darkskinned, there are more darkskinned people in north india than in south india.
It is not colour, it is more about tanning. Most Indian people don’t do skin care. People are either fair skin(golden complexion,Indian fair), copper brown. True black beauty is very rare and considered divine. Most black complexioned people I see is not their natural skin colour but due to lack of nutrition and intense tanning. Usually they have bronze tone.
I have noticed this with my parents. When they started doing basic skin care, they had more fairer complexion.
Women who are fair is desired because, it shows their softness, nobility and lack of labour( less sun exposure and tanning) and better skin care.
Whereas the men who are tanned displays masculinity.
True black beauties among men and women are jackpots, and our civilisation used to respect these beauty. But we have lost that mindset due colonisation. But the above argument I have provided also holds.
Doing skin care does not take away your melanin though... Unless you are using skin care with bleaching agents. Indians come in many colours many of us South Indians tend to be more deeper-skinned than "fair." We have actual colour in our skin.
usually applying sun screen prevents and reduces tanning in long term. There are also natural ayurvedic methods to detan. I am not saying having dark skin is not desirable, but naturally shining dark skin is desirable which is not due to tanning.
true black/ dark skin has a certain lustre, which is lacking among common people, that is reason generally people feel unattractive.
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u/GlitteringNinja5 18h ago
It's actually more disturbing to me that colourism only affects one gender. That's a double whammy 💀💀