Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Is this "fair"???

Is this "fair"???

First of all I would like to say that I am no enemy for those who are fair in complexion :). This is just my thought on certain advertisements and movies that tend to preach negative thoughts based on the color.

As we all know, the media is as powerful as ever and its importance has increased in the recent past. In such a scenario where everyone including the future of India - the youngsters - take a close look and tend to follow by that, such things might make a bad impact in the younger minds. So when an advertisement/movie appeals for fairness alone, what message does it send to the viewers? What about those guys in dark complexion? What will the younger generation think about those in dark complexion?

When we talk constantly about eradicating racism elsewhere, how such ads/movies get an OK? The other concern is - How do the cine stars or the models, who have a large fan group following, act in such ads/movies? Is money the only factor for them? Also, the masterminds behind these ideas are to be blamed. Cant they think of some good concepts other than this?

Are the Men in Black/Dark complexion not handsome? Atleast I dont think so. Look at these personalities who are dark but looks very handsome to me:
Nelson Mandela (more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela),
APJ Abdul Kalam (more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APJ_Abdul_Kalam),
Arthur Ashe, Rosa Parks (I came to know about her from my friend Raj. more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks),
and a lot more including our own Super Star Rajnikanth (more details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajnikanth)
and obviously ME :))

Hope, in the future, those who are involved will give a second thought before they make it available for the public and be really fair :)

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2 comments:

த.ராஜசேகர் said...

Hi Jai,

Good that atleast one person... remembered something from the everyday... SNS . that i sent.. :-D

Jai T said...

Yes... if not for all I remembered atleast what I wanted for this post :)