Fair Skin Obsession! People Savagely Troll Ranu Mondal's Makeup For Being Unrealistically White
Ranu Mondal is the overnight singing sensation after the video of her singing Ek pyaar ka nagma hai at Ranaghat railway station in Kolkata went viral. She was immediately signed up by Himesh Reshammiya and she recorded three songs with him. Images of Ranu Mondal caked with &lsquofair&rsquo makeup have become a butt of jokes on Twitter.
We all know Ranu Mondal by now, the overnight singing sensation. After the video of her singing 'Ek pyaar ka nagma hai' at Ranaghat railway station in Kolkata went viral, she was immediately signed up by Himesh Reshammiya and she recorded three songs with him.
She has been on reality TV shows and all over the internet since she was ¡®discovered¡¯. She is going viral again now, and this time it's not for a good reason and not for any fault of hers either.
One of the many things that I have not been able to understand about the citizens of India is their obsession with fairness. It is the mother of all ironies that, being the country of mostly brown people that has set fairness as a beauty standard. This idea has also been explored in the recently released movie Bala.
Bhumi Pednekar plays the role of a dark skinned girl who represents people who have to face bullying, criticism and rejection because of their color, in INDIA. We are not whites and we are still racists. This obsession with color is very visible in the make up industry and beauty products too.
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We have Fair and Lovely, because being dark skinned is apparently ugly and in the name of foundation range big brands have like ten shades of color.
Images of Ranu Mondal, caked with ¡®fair¡¯ makeup have become a butt of jokes on Twitter with people questioning Bollywood¡¯s obsession with fairness, through memes. Images from her ¡®initial¡¯ days show her to be a dark skinned person and we cannot understand why is there a need to cake her face to make it appear what it is not. Makeup is supposed to make people look pretty but they way Ranu Mondal has been ¡®made up¡¯ has had people compare her to The Nun.
It is unfair to her to become a butt of jokes for something she probably did not ask for, it is more the fault of the makeup artist who turned Ranu Mondal into an unrecognizable doll.
Here are some of the jokes people made regarding her makeup:
#RanuMandal's Special Makeup!.. pic.twitter.com/7BX3uYu3yf
¡ª Ashwath (@3DAshwath) November 17, 2019
#RanuMandal
¡ª Ashutosh Sharma?? (@ashutosh381995) November 17, 2019
All indians after seeing this?
?????????????????? pic.twitter.com/QlVe0jbPZC
Jeewan ka Anth, hoga turant !#RanuMandal
¡ª Akash gupta (@sky_gupta27) November 17, 2019
Why should Ranu Mandal have all the fun ? pic.twitter.com/WNGpaH0dcr
she is in Halloween dress #aaaaa #RanuMandal pic.twitter.com/oceekuvMp3
¡ª ravi singh (@Ind9470) November 17, 2019
#RanuMandal is ready to play the role of The nun biopic ?? pic.twitter.com/eMnRTGYCZA
¡ª Amritesh ?? (@amritesh_21) November 17, 2019
#RanuMandal
¡ª Dhavan Kadia (@dhaone110) November 17, 2019
Breaking News...
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Log muh par cream lagate hain, #RanuMandal ne cream par muh laga dia... ? pic.twitter.com/Ryo9H8rs6X
¡ª R A K E S H (@iamrakeshoo7) November 17, 2019
Pic 1: Photo in Aadhar Card
¡ª Nikunj Raj (@rajrogue) November 17, 2019
Pic 2: Photo in Instagram and Facebook#RanuMandal pic.twitter.com/OA40fbeeSG
Bollywood verson of The Nun #RanuMandal pic.twitter.com/52NnEKOL4i
¡ª Sarcastic_boy_45?? (@rupeshrazzpuro) November 17, 2019
We as a people need to stop obsessing over fairness and do away with the idea of ¡®what¡¯s light is beautiful¡¯.
