Movie

We realized that some of our followers don't understand Hindi, so here's the translation for them.

4:07- Nandita Das- There are so many people who've been using fair and lovely( fairness cream) for the past 10-20 years now.

4:15- Manju Jain- I use fair and lovely. I've been using it for a long time now. It makes my skin look better.

4:21- Vijayalaxmi Sinha- These days mostly everyone uses fairness creams. Not only women, even men use fairness creams.

4:32- Question- Where do you find out about fairness creams?
Shanti- I saw it on television, it comes in the advertisements.

5:34- Nandita Das- People lose their confidence because of such advertisements. Even after using the creams for 10-12 years, is not like one becomes completely fair like Aishwarya Rai. So, most of the people in India, who have wheatish complexion lose confidence because all the advertisements show fair girls, all the actors are fair. If you've noticed, the actors who were dark in the beginning of their career, somehow have become fair now.



We made this movie on colour prejudice and body image, check it out!

We are very very grateful to all the people who helped us out and agreed to let us interview them for it. Especially Kate Dillon. Kate is an alumnus of Harvard University, where she worked for her masters in International Development. However, Kate is recognized, more importantly, as one of the most gorgeous models of the fashion industry. She ALSO is one of the few enlightened people who have learnt that beauty is not just about the colour of your skin or the size of your clothes. It lies within the person.

She is, today, a plus-size model. In other words, someone who models but doesn't starve herself to the point to which her ribs stick out. She wasn't however, always a plus sized model. She used to be a "normal" skinny model when she entered the modelling world at the age of 17. Though she was very successful, she was always being told to loose more weight. No matter how skinny she got, there was always more weight she could loose.

It was only when she had been ill for 10 days with an intestinal virus that she was considered skinny enough. This is when she realized how oppressive the industry was and she decided to quit modeling and undertook a journey to discover herself. Later, somebody suggested that she should be a plus sized model. And so, here she is. She met great success as a plus-sized model. She was featured in many major fashion magazines like MODE and was also featured in a Gucci ad- a first for any plus sized model. Kate Dillon sticks to her beliefs- being healthy and holistic is what makes people beautiful- and here's what she says:

"It's really important to believe in yourself and to not get victimized by popular culture and what society says you have to be. It's never right, it's always changing."



Believe it, people. Like Olay says, "Love the skin you're in" :)