Just a few things I’ve noticed
It’s my first time posting and just wanted to shared some thoughts about some of the posts I’ve read about Lara and Indian culture as well.
I’m a dark skinned South Indian girl who grew up outside of India and wants to give some context.
I think the whole over sexualization of her body is a direct result of her environment. Think of Lara as Devi from Never Have I Ever and it all makes sense. Indian women aren’t really seen as desirable or sexy and don’t get much attention from the opposite gender especially if you grow up outside India. There is a good chance she faced similar circumstances which has now led to her hyper-sexualizing her self in every situation and it’s getting to a point where it is embarrassing. The back arch and siren eyes in every photo is killing me. Also her parents are wayyy too chill with her and her sister sexualizing themselves for the industry.
I saw a couple of unhinged posts that were calling her skin tone fake? Indian skin tones changes during seasons and can look very dark or light depending on the lighting conditions. That is actually her skin color, it just looks very different during seasonal changes, I’ve experienced this as well during the summer and winter(have to get different foundation shades for each season). During Coachella her skin tone got much darker for this reason as well, 2 weeks in the direct sun will darken your skin like crazy.
There is another point someone made about Lara not speaking Hindi or knowing about Bollywood. India is a sub-continent for a reason. Within India there are over 100+ regional languages who have their own regional movies and actors/actresses. While Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India it is not the national language. It is very common to not speak hindi if you live in the southern states of India because they have their own regional language. Hindi is sort of a second/third language people speak. Lara is from Tamil Nadu and the regional language is Tamil. They have their own movies (the official term is called Tollywood) which Bollywood often copies. Most of Bollywood’s top performing movies are directly copy and pasted from top performing Tamil movies.
For people who have been born and brought up outside of India, we usually learn our mother tongue as our second language and don’t really bother learning other Indian languages because we don’t live in India.
That’s it. Just wanted to provide a little bit more context.