Sara Ali Khan On Skin Colour

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Did Sara Ali Khan flub her lines while talking about India’s fair skin obsession? The young actor was speaking to Barkha Dutt at the We The Women summit in Bengaluru.

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00:00Mean if you want to be tan just put some bronzer if you want to be fair put some powder

00:03I don't think it's the end of the world

00:13There were many girls who talked about how their tan or their color has made them suffer

00:20so anytime do you fantasize about being tanned or

00:24You want to go on beaches and get tanned does that color? I love going on beaches

00:30It has nothing to do with being tanned, but I mean I love the beach

00:32And I don't necessarily think that I mean if you want to be tan just put some bronzer if you want to be fair put

00:38Some powder I don't think it's the end of the world, but I don't think it should define you at all

00:41You know I think this whole chatter about skin color is like really

00:45You know I mean I wanted to put pink nail polish. I put it if I want to look dark

00:49I'll just spray-paint myself. It's fine. You know what about people who are dark and are under enormous pressure to look fair

00:54This again. What is pressure? I think that at the end of the day prejudice, rude comments

00:59I understand that, bias, you won't get married

01:02But you won't change

01:04I can say that everyone should say that all beauties are the same

01:08But maybe they won't say it

01:10But you should have the confidence to say whatever you want to say

01:13It should happen but not everyone can do it

01:15But I believe that there is a larger probability and a higher success rate

01:20For you to attempt to change yourself than to change the world because they are not going to change

01:25Just change the world

01:31Sara, this burden of celebrity that you carry before you have a chance to find

01:36Find who you are, establish who you are, carve out your own personality

01:40Not just famous parents, famous grandparents on both sides

01:44How is that growing up?

01:47See, I'll be honest with you

01:49I don't... you know, people have used words like burden, pressure, all of that

01:54But I don't really believe in that I think that you know

01:57You're as burdened as you want to be and you take as much pressure as you want to you know

02:02of course

02:03I'm aware acutely aware that I come from a film background and therefore the

02:08Scrutiny or the attention that I have received has been more than it would be otherwise

02:13But I don't necessarily look at that as a burden because if I do then I will be stiff

02:19And I won't be able to perform and I don't think that that's fun. Then, you know, I think that

02:26I'm like I said, I'm aware of where I come from

02:28But I don't at all look at it as a burden and I don't think I ever have

02:33So I think there's a part of it. That's a privilege. There's a part of that's fun

02:37I'm this part of it that must be mildly suffocating. I

02:41See again suffocating is an intense word. I don't know about that. But I think that with any form of kind of

02:48Like you said

02:49Privilege. Yeah, there is a setback to it as well. You know, there is a lot of scrutiny

02:54There are a lot of eyes on us for instance

02:57And I can't deny the fact that star children as much as I hate those words do get it easy

03:03You know

03:04We do have a privilege in terms of access that others don't have

03:08but it also comes with scrutiny and at the risk of sounding negative which I don't intend to at all because whether it's the

03:14Audiences or the industry or the media everybody has been very very loving maybe even more than I deserve

03:20but I do think that there is a

03:22Whole lot of people out there who are waiting for you as a star child to make one mistake

03:27Of course and to falter even a little bit to be able to say they come

03:31Oh, Scott, I saw me similar. Yeah, let's make a bad. Hey, have you and your brother had equal freedoms?

03:36again, it's different because I think that I have a progressive mother and

03:41you can't also

03:42Make the difference, but see we are not equal. Okay, we should be treated equally politically, but we are not equal

03:49What do you mean by that? I can't argue that me and my brother deserve to come home the same time

03:53We live why not because maybe it's a little more dangerous for me to be able to change those

03:58But can I say a rude word change those people outside?

04:01I mean get them to stay in but can I or can you I would fight for the right of

04:06Women to stay out as late as men

04:08I appreciate that

04:09But I also understand and recognize the fact that I as a woman or my mother as a woman or my brother as a man

04:15Cannot change the intentions of the man on the road. I know but it's not because we are not equal

04:20It's because the world is not equal. Of course, of course, but if there's a difference, right?

04:25You see the difference the world is not equal. We are fighting to make it. I totally agree

04:29but I don't think that it makes it, you know a

04:33Example of inequality to allow my brother to come home later than me

04:37I think that these are just few basic things that enable safety and I think that that's a personal choice and that's okay

04:43But there are bigger things like political rights or access to education or employment to equal pay and I think in factors like this

04:52Equality is more necessary. The fact is that you're Sara Ali Khan new entrant exactly

04:56But there are the men who are still playing the roles of the play 20 years ago

05:00Like that has to be slightly buggy, I mean, yeah, but I see audiences are watching them, you know

05:06So, I mean you can't just blame them

05:07I mean the audiences are wanting to watch them like romance the daughters of the heroines. So then

05:17I

05:18Think that it's also it's a give-and-take, you know, I think that we as people

05:23Yeah can turn around and you know kind of criticize a question, but look at the people

05:28I think it's also about acceptance. If we women were to put our foot down, maybe we would be treated differently

05:34Yeah, maybe we would I don't know. Maybe if you said I'm bored of watching him. Maybe he wouldn't be cast for the 97th time

05:43But don't you make like jokes about it or does it make you angry I'm a newcomer all my jokes are private

05:51You know, you know your get-out-of-jail-card is

05:55Oh, no, some people have been regressive I don't take it seriously, but this stuff like like, you know

06:03Tutu or a tattoo. Yes, sir. They say this. Yeah. Yeah, I know I've heard this. I'm I'd you say I'm a newcomer. Yeah

06:15You know, honestly, I

06:17Really feel like I ignore these things because I think the best thing to do when somebody is trying to take away your agency is

06:24Give yourself multiple agency by ignoring it and being you anyway

06:27It's not about getting into like a banter of name a or a to make a ruby to Corona

06:31Chupachap say Karo

06:32Jab kuch karna hota hai toh nare laga ke karne ki zarurat nahi aap chupachap bhi kar sakte ho

06:37We have all these conversations about body positivity now

06:40Does it really work or our women still battling some guy's idea of what beautiful is?

06:46No, I am sure there I am sure they are

06:49I think that they do and I think that it's not just guys

06:52I think I honestly feel that women should be women's best friends

06:55But unfortunately in the world that we live in it's really not that way

06:58I think it's the woman that will first say are a look at her. She's looking so fat. I mean, she's looking so bloated

07:04I don't even think men notice this stuff, you know a lot of times

07:07so I think it's this whole agenda of like kind of

07:10You know adhering to this perfect image when I don't even know who came up with it

07:16Like who decides what's perfect?

07:18I mean if you want to be a little larger than what you know

07:21The neighbor's wife thinks you should be then you be that just be healthy because I think that's important

07:27But the rest is your choice and should be always

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