Matter Of Color Through The Vision Of Nandita Das

Almighty has made humans with varieties of shape, size, color, caste etc. But generally when we look at someone, we firstly judge his/her beauty by his/her color. If a person uw fair in color then that guy is beautiful. In this sense we ignore his/her other talents. Colorism is a worldwide issue. From education to sports this is a common thing. In the film industry also colorism suffers a lot. 

In this context actress/director Nandita Das has beautifully presented her opinion. According to her,  you don't have to be a dark person to be fighting against the discrimination. And you don't have to be a woman only to be fighting against women's inequalities. Men can also fight against it. Because it is a societal issue. In fact we should be fighting for each other's cause. Why should people with HIV AIDS come out for his rallies…And why should dark skin people for that matter be saying please don't discriminate against us. If you are progressive liberal person who believes in equality you should be doing it as much even though you are fair. Why does a dark person have to be spectacularly amazing to be able to be noticed or to be able to get some attention or to be able to be recognized. 

Nandita Das spoke about the kind of roles she is repeatedly offered and how she is asked to lighten her skin while being offered roles. She has been quite vocal about how she hates colourism in Bollywood and is even a part of the Dark Is Beautiful campaign. Dark is Beautiful. When there is a role of a rural woman, or a Dalit woman, or the role of a slum-dweller, then my skin colour is fine. But the minute I have to play an educated, upper-middle-class character, invariably someone comes up to me and says "I know you don’t like to lighten your skin, but you know this role is of an upper-middle-class educated person".

Colorism is nothing but just like a virus that has been created by educated people. And this can be erased by the help of educated people.