bases, Abishek Bachchan, Salman Khan, Zayed Khan, Celina Jaitley, Sushmita Sen, ...
These images were found mostly via google and yahoo's search engines. They were made for the South Asian section of 'The Dailies'. I gotta take a moment to bow in amazement at meenaxi/lapetitediva for her many communities devoted to South Asian actors.
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South Asian women are so beautiful, and you never see them in American pop culture. My best friend is (East) Indian, and when she was little, she didn't understand why she didn't look like Snow White or any of the other Disney princesses. (Of course, now they've branched out -- kind of . . . they're all still shaped like Barbies -- with Jasmine and Mulan, but this was back when we were children). And it still hasn't gotten much better; whose was the last Indian or Arab face you saw in Western television or cinema that wasn't playing a terrorist?
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for your tireless efforts of "bringing the pretty," making available beautiful pictures of actors/models of color that I already know, and introducing me to new ones that I should. I really, really appreciate it beyond just looking at pretty pictures, even if I don't always take the time to thank you.
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South Asians in American pop culture: All I can think of is Parminder Nagra, really (from Bend It Like Beckham and Er) in terms of South Asian women in Western Media. I think for many people, the casual, everyday beauty of beautiful South Asians is about as hard to handle as a South Asian rocking trendy stuff, traditional stuff, or traditional/trendy stuff.
But I firmly believe that it isn't beauty that is being advertised and promoted by Western media/fashion.
The last Indian face I saw on American network TV was Sendhil Ramamurthy. And I'm not so sure he's Indian. P'raps he's Pakistani or Bangladeshi.
But thank you thank you thank you.
*hugs*
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