Why is India so obsessed with being the fairest of them all?
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00:00I want a white kid, listen to me carefully
00:07Don't drink tea, kid, you'll turn black
00:30Don't drink tea, kid, you'll turn black
01:00It's so fair and lovely
01:21Marketing people for cosmetics get more success
01:25when they say a product is for fairness
01:29rather than for any other thing
01:31Fairness is the supermost requirement
02:01The colour of the skin in a natural and gentle way
02:19When I saw the commercial, it took me looking at myself
02:23and seeing that commercial for me to understand
02:26that I'm standing for exactly what made me insecure as a teenager
02:31And then I got out of the contract, of course, and never did it again
02:33But it took me actually seeing myself saying that
02:37and remembering what I felt like as a 12-year-old
02:40when I used to watch the commercials and buy those creams
02:43and try and change my skin tone because I would be prettier
02:47And I don't think that's the standard of beauty I want for my children
02:50or for the children of the world
03:10I faced a lot of rejection as well
03:12I would meet people, they would give me excuses
03:15how they can't cast me, sometimes because of my complexion