Bipasha Basu, Kangana Ranaut Lauds Indian Cosmetic Brand's Decision To Drop ‘Fair’ From ‘Fair & Lovely’ Beauty Creams

Racism has been the topic of discussion for a long time. We have been witness to how people who are dark-skinned have always had to bear the brunt of their skin colour and lag behind not just in our part of the world but almost all over the globe! Same is the condition. The outrage flared up recently, especially after US-based George Floyd's tragic death.

And amidst all this controversy and tittle-tattle, one of India's leading multifunctional companies, Hindustan Unilever announced taking a progressive step and decided to remove the words Fair, Lightening and Whitening from Fair & Lovely products.

Yesterday, Shah Rukh Khan’s daughter Suhana Khan lauded the decision and now Bipasha Basu shared a moving message on social media to appreciate the move. She took to her Instagram handle and wrote, "From the time I was growing up I heard this always, Bonnie is darker than Soni. She is little dusky na? “Even though my mother is a dusky beauty and I look a lot like her. I never knew why that would be a discussion by distant relatives when I was a kid.”

She further continued, “Soon at 15/ 16 I started modelling and then I won the supermodel contest ... all newspapers read ... dusky girl from Kolkata is the winner.I wondered again why Dusky is my first adjective ??? Then I went to New York and Paris to work as a model and I realised my skin colour was exotic there and I got more work and attention because of it. Another discovery of mine.”

Basu further went on to to reveal, “Once I came back into India and film offers started... and finally I did my first film and from an absolute Ajnabee to Hindi film industry ...I suddenly was accepted and loved. But the adjective stayed which I started liking and loving by then. DUSKY girl wows the audiences in her debut film. In most of my articles for all the work I did, my duskiness seemed to be the main discussion.. it attributed to my sex appeal apparently. And sexy in Bollywood started getting accepted widely. I never really understood this... To me sexy is the personality not just the colour of your skin...why my skin colour only sets me apart from the conventional actresses at that time. But that’s the way it was. I didn’t really see much of difference but I guess people did.”

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It has been a long and sometimes a very lonely battle but results only happen when whole nation participates in the movement ????https://t.co/9xv1nkQm5P

— Team Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) June 25, 2020