Why is Amy Jackson a Tamil Actress???
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Why is Amy Jackson a Tamil Actress???
As a tamil girl, I've grown up watching tamil movies and it wasn't until recently that I realized there are a few things that are wrong with them. One of which is the fact that almost all of the actress es are light skinned and not tamil. I specifically had the question of why Amy Jackson is a Tamil actress. Amy Jackson has played the role of tamil girls in quite a few films now but is that really okay? Shouldn't a tamil actress actually be tamil the same way most tamil actors are actually tamil? In this video we talk about the colourism in tamil media. Why is Amy Jackson playing the role of a tamil girl? Why can't directors actually cast dark skinned tamil girls to play those roles? Why is India still so colourist even though it's been so long since colonisation? We take a look back at the history of India to see the root causes of all of these problems and talk about the effects of the lack of representation on young Indian girls.
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Why is Amy Jackson a Tamil Actress and Why is Amy Jackson in kollywood???, but Why is Amy Jackson in bollywood??? there is so much colourism in tamil media, and colorism in India, why can't dark skinned Indian women get married, Amy Jackson, Aishwarya Rajesh, Samantha, are tamil actresses, in tamil cinema, kollywood, India
As a Tamilian myself I can't help agreeing to everything you said. You just earned a new subscriber.
Thank you so much:))
As a Tamilian you should be more worried about neighbouring state artistes depriving Tamezh artistes of opportunities.
There's a tamil movie dialogue "intha maari vella iduppelaam veyla padakoodath patta color poyidum🤤". You know which movie it is?
this is SO fucking incredible and well put. this is such a huge problem that we indians just do not talk about. thank you so so much for shining light on this💛
Thank you so much:)!!!
Why most Hindu Gods & Goddesses are portrayed as fair skinned beings in the first place? It has consciously and sub-consciously influenced the minds of the devotees for generations.
This is a good point, I never thought about it that way
Not only Kali Mata 🌻☠️
@@ItsLavaMost of them are North Indians? Don't spread false information! In fact Tamezh movies discriminate against Tamezh girls and favour actresses from neighbouring states... NOT North Indians. You must be another soreyaarist trying to cover up this secret discrimination. The so-called lady superstar 9thaara is from Kerala,Snake-a is a Taelugu to mention just a few.
SO DISCRIMINATION EXISTS IN TAMEZH CINEMA... BUT ONLY AGAINST TAMEZH GIRLS IN FAVOUR OF NEIGHBOURING STATE GIRLS. Are you a Tamilian? Please identify your background and then this whole nonsense video will be seen in proper light.
@@ItsLavaIt's not true at all. Hindu gods like shiva, kali, krishna are portrayed as dark skinned. This commenter is extragrading
@@geography2154 I believe that her opinions actually show her ignorance of India and is based more on what she heard from other Indians without applying her own objectivity or research. Because if she did...then she'd have realised that the current "lady superstar" is 9thaara from Kerala.... NOT A NORTH INDIAN.
Hey i am also Indian and I understand all of this
And you are great making videos on this, I appreciate your concern
Love from Delhi
Thank you!!
I am glad and happy that you talked about this huge issue even me I grew up watching tamil movies and i had always this question on why always light skinned actress and they didn 't even know tamil most of them as you said 🤨?
Since I was small and until now I’ve always had this inferior complex because "My skin is not clear enough" that’s what I always hear from my own family and it hurts me that beauty was related to color for them. But now I try not to let it happen and be more confident myself : my beauty is not related to my skin color! Self love is important 🥰
Aw that makes me happy, I’m so glad you’ve learned to disconnect beauty and colour! Slowly our generation will change this idea and we’ll let the colorism go with the old generations :)))
This is so true and I love when we see more representation but we need more thank you for bringing awareness
thank you!
It's rare to see such progressive videos about Tamil community.
Would be more effective of you released the video in Tamil so that more people can understand.
Some of these discrimination based on looks/colour/gender still exists. cinema impacts a lot of people.
Anyways appreciate your efforts 👌 👍. This video is ahead of its time. And people in Tamil Nadu are changing little by little.
Guess what, little by little little becomes a lot. Hopeful about a progressive future and progressive Tamil community. 🤞
நன்றிகள் பல✌️
As a Tamil guy from Tamilnadu, I myself have had a lot of bad experiences and faced discriminations about being black. I try to forget my whole child hood which is filled with the imitations of my classmates and others make from recent or popular movie comedies ( which they think is funny) and other kinds of bullying. Most people never understand the impact of these types of acts. They are just casual about it.
Infact I never like to revisit my child hood even in my memories. I was the scape goat or go to person for my whole class and to the bullies in my school days. Whenever they feel bored they will pass some hateful/hurtful comments about me.
While I am still carrying the impact of those trauma after 3/4 years. Most of those bullies wouldn't even be aware of me or their hurtful actions and words towards me. 😠😡😤😭😭😢😢
I became anti social and I isolated myself everywhere I go, because of my insecurity about 'what others will say about me' mindset. Now I am fine (but still introverted) and out of these stupid mindset and am not insecure anymore about my looks or colour.
I am sorry for such a long comment but I have never expressed all these things to anyone neither do I have the courage to say it to anyone. so I just let all the years of my trauma in this comment because I am anonymous here.
மனசுல இருந்த பாரமே குறைஞ்சுடுச்சே 😂😂
@@sabari_sk Haha Thank you:) I had to make it in English because it was also for a school project but yes I fully understand what you mean. Thank you again for the appreciation!!!
@@sabari_sk so what is ur age, am a girl and facing this everyday in my life, even girls bullying other girls for being dark this is what happening nowadays.
@@sreesree8794 I am 21 now. I can feel you 😌
If you are from India , probably you being a girl will face even more discrimination based on skin colour right. Because that’s how even women themselves are programmed to behave and think of fair skin being desirable in our patriarchal society. I being a stranger don’t know how much you have gone through, but more power to you👍. Be strong, if you’re still young and in school, it might mean everything to you. But believe me after certain age , once you get into college or find a job,these noises and comments about your skin colour will reduce. Just bear through tough school days. It will get better. At least us (this generation people) should stand against such discrimination and not propagate this to our next generation that not to discriminate anybody based on their looks, appearances, colour, background, language, body weight, ideology they believe, etc
Colourism is just one of many discriminations of our society. Our society has set standards for everything, hair should be black, skin should be white, height should be 6ft, weight should be …….. etc it’s an endless 🔁 loop of unattainable expectations. These discrimination sometimes get even uglier into religion, caste 😒
Even elder women I have seen commenting bad on brides skin colour behind their back on multiple occasions of weddings. These are women who have been turned blind eye to society’s stereotypes. What else can we do than to ignore such comments?
Stay strong girl, all I can say is believe in yourself that you are powerful enough and can overcome this. There’s nothing wrong with you at all. Just ignore and go ahead with your real priorities in life. On much larger scale of your life hopefully it won’t mean much that who said what about your skin colour. You will find your true value only when you believe in yourself 💪
Do something great in whatever you like, so that people have a lot to say or talk about you than just colour of your skin. Let’s just do our part in educating people closer to us , and hope for a good society in future without any discrimination.✌️
Let’s be a better human by not discriminating anyone based on anything. Have a nice day and a future too
Amazingly explained. The colorism also has to do with casteism apart from colonisation... in general, lower you are on the caste ladder, darker your skin. British are not responsible for everything related to colorism. Indian people themselves wanted to emphasise their social standing by associating it with their color, which indirectly tells they are from a higher caste.
Thank you! And yes I agree. I didn’t want to get into caste because it would have made the video much longer and that is not something you can talk about vaguely. But I completely agree!
@@ItsLava No worries. Hoping to see more content about cinema on your channel!
@Nope it's not.
Colonialism directly influenced the creation of modern castes.
Stop writing about something you don't know.
Just stop this bullshit
That’s BS, I am fair, my first cousin is dark like a copper vessel. And yes we look very very different. But that’s has nothing to do with caste. All our parents are from same caste.
Infact her skin colour is similar to another cousin who is from another caste. I have friends who are white as a bunny and from tribal origins.
May be that’s in south India, not in Maharashtra everybody is pretty mixed up. Have seen in many families that strictly follow intraccaste marriages that people look very different within the same family and are of different skin tones. Now even if my family is pretty mixed up, and has inter community marriages too. Few look Caucasian, white with blue eyes, blonde like hair. And some look like half Africans. My grandfather looked like Tamilian Anna. India is pretty mixed up in middle section atleast.
This topic is so very sad and infuriating at the same time. I know such things have happened in American media but was unaware of such similar, despicable actions happening elsewhere. Call it my uniformed naivety. Regardless, it sucks and the only way to change it is to talk about it. I hope this gains traction and moves because more people need to know about this.
yes I totally agree!
Being an American... it's easy for you to fall for such false information. It's true that there's discrimination in the Tamezh film industry... but not in favour of North Indian artistes. It's artistes from the neighbouring South Indian states who get preference over local Tamezh girls. It's based on a racist view that Tamezh girls are dark and ugly compared to their Southern neighbours. But the facts are different. Many of the neighbouring state actresses are also actually dark-skinned. They wear dollops of make-up to appear fair.
@@surajm4547tamil nadu has more dark skinned people compared to kerala or any other state. If u go to any village in tamil nadu, you can see all of them being dark skinned.
I wonder why don't people recognise this issue...this is a major problem but sadly we are normalised 😒
You just pointed it..🙌👏
you explained this so well, thanks for raising awareness abt this ❤️❤️
Thank you smm!!
YES LAVA, you could not have said it any better. Thank you for sharing, everyone needs to see this and can learn a lot from this. I enjoyed the typing sound effects as well. *type type type*
Hehe thank you! type type type indeed
this is a rlly rlly important topic and isn’t talked about enough, keep it going 🙌👏
Thank you!!!
I stopped watching Tamil films cuz it ain’t healthy for my psyche … albeit the storyline and songs are amazing… iv been watching western content which emphasises tanned skin … given me great confidence and happy with my appearance and I don’t have to use poison creams to change my skin tone
I'm glad you are going what's right for you!
Yea but somebody should give that credit to the malayalam film industry.We have no/less beauty standards compared to other industries .Nowadays actresses in this industry even stopped wearing makeup .Also bollywood actresses don't give an exact representation of ppl who live in north india.And girl ur bomb.I'm looking forward to see more of ur videos
Dude, people in every film industry are generally supposed to fit beauty standards. Just think abt Hollywood. Majority Hollywood actors have tanned skin, blonde hair,blue eyes. Those are beauty standard in the west. But millions of white people have pinkish skin,dark hair, dark eyes etc. Same in bollywood. Every north indian can't look like bollywood actors. But millons of north indians look similar also the rest also at least look close to them. But in case of tamil industry the actresses look 100% north indian ,and look 0% tamil.
@@stephanatlas5331 so?what does all these have to do with the malayalam industry
@@veronicasawyer731 Let's be honest, malayalis are the most north looking south indian group. Lighter skin is more common in Kerala than tamil nadu. Even most South indian origin actresses in tamil flim are malayali (who litaraly look malayali or north indian,they don't look tamil ). And it doesn't change the fact that if malayalis would look like Tamils they would NOT cast such tamil looking actresses. Only Kerala has got an advantage that many malayali women look more north indian than south indian.
oh really? why malayali directors take sexist fair skin loving movies in tamil industry? whta kind of sick psycho mentality is that ? please search for movies taken by malayali directors in tamil industry
oh really? why malayali directors take sexist fair skin loving movies in tamil industry? whta kind of sick psycho mentality is that ? please search for movies taken by malayali directors in tamil industry
It is not only in cinema ! Ask any prospective groom in tamil nadu about the choice of a girl and he would most probably say the girl must be fair skinned ! Fair skin is associated with beauty and is ingrained in a Tamilian's mind !
I know it's really unfortunate that it's an issue bigger than just cinema. But since movies have such an impact on people, it would be great if the change can start here
Why Tamil people are so obsessed with fair skin when it comes to actress
I have the same exact question
I am so glad you talked about this cause I used to think that I was the only one that thought about this
You're definitely not the only one!!
Truly a well put together video! & honestly very underrated but keep it up
Thank you!!
Thanks for posting this….this has been a thing in tamil cinema for so many years….👏
Some famous south actresses are dark skinned and they have completely changed their skin color now. They are totally fair now and suddenly they all look like a British woman with a a similar complexion. They undergo lots of treatments to completely change their skin color. Actually it is so painful to see this because the south actresses have dark skin tone but in a matter or few movies they transition completely to fair skin in real life too. How much of pressure they might have faced to do that I would always wonder!
Yea it actually is such a sad thing to think about
Yes, it is so obvious and saddening 😢I am actually very happy to see this video nobody has spoken about this. Thanks let this be an eye opener for common people😢
The original inhabitants of South Asia are the AASI, a dark skinned group falling inbetween Andamanese and Aboriginal Australians. This ancestry is spread across the subcontinent and even in northwest South Asia, it's high among Dalits and converted Dalits. Why won't Pakistani and North Indian cinema cast dark skinned people then?
Aasi are
South Eurasian
( east asian, Caucasusisn,
Aborginl mix)
The proto Dravidan were Mediterranean
And Pakistan has higest
Dravidan dna
Tamil has Aasi
Aryans dna is less in south asia
Only Kalash Hindu are Aryans
The look north European
@@fzlc7425 Aryans were not europeans.blonde hair,blue eyes have nothing to do with aryans. It's just a fake propaganda by hitler. Aryans were brown/olive(sometimes fair skinned) dark hair,dark eyed people. Just like modern north indians/ upper caste south indians . Dravidian is not a race. It's just a language family name. Mention of word"aryan" is first found in Vedas. Later in zend Avesta. Europe has nothing to do with aryans.
@@stephanatlas5331
Aryans were kalash pamiris u fool.
@@stephanatlas5331
Aryan dna is steppe ansetry
Dravidian is a Mediterranean component
Aasi native 🇮🇳
@@fzlc7425 You fool, kalash people are bacterians. They don't even follow Vedas. Have you ever read Vedas? In Vedas there is no such mentioned that aryan people had blonde hair or blue eyes. Vedas has been written by Aryans themselves.
Really well explained. It makes me mad that people with darker skin are treated as ‘less than’. The skin bleaching industry both infuriates me and breaks my heart. Every skin tone is beautiful. Dark skinned females need much more of a spotlight so that future generations change their ideas about this ridiculous ‘beauty’ standard.
Thank you! And yes, I agree
The thing many people completely dismiss is that many South Indian actress where o dark skinned until the beginning of the 90s
Silk smitha was dark skinned but I find Tammanna more sexy. There's a dialogue in Siruthai where Karthi says "intha maari vella iduppelaam veyla padakoodath patta color poyidum". Tamanna is known as milky beauty.
1:07 Dhanshika was actually dark skinned while acting in the movie she later bleached her skin
Such an important message and you said it so well👏👏 Also the editing jheezz👀
Hehe tyyy:))
what you said is absolutely true..nice vedio..Your way of speaking is also good..❤️✨ keep gng
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for such an amazing video about colorism. I am doing university assignment about colorism. I will reference your video in my assignment :)
I am honoured to be in your references!
Also the recent obsession with tamil boys about kerala girls and disrespecting tamil girls. I cringe every time I watch those videos. Malayalam movies are now days being very natural when choosing their actress. Dusky tones, no makeup, pimples are normal and it is proudly represented. Thanks to the new age directors and technical teams for these changes.
Ironically,Tamil thinks Malayalis are the epitome of beauty. Some of the light skinned actress's in Tamil cinema are Malayalis.
Lol
@@ralph6417But what is worng in that? Malyalis often have sharp facial features and taller height than Tamils due to better quality of life. Thats why Tamils find them attractive
Taller height,sharper facial features 🤣🤣🤣
Nice!
@@geography2154 nothing wrong with that but the logic in which these tamil industry choosing actress are just funny. Anyway their whole screen presence is 30 min maximum in whole movie with dance and songs and few romantic and sentimental scene.
Lol our own women aren't comfortable in doing certain stuff (item songs,certain scenes) like the women who grew up in maharashtra or Bangalore
Not saying that all of them are the same
But the % among the Tamils is very less
Anyway one of the reasons why there r a lot of malayali actresses in our industry could simply be because they have already gained fame in their own industry and they seemingly dont have much skin showing stuff going on
Example keerthy suresh(who is half tamil btw but also started in mollywood),nithya menon,asin
Whatever u said is so true and u conveyed it very well. Just a small suggestions maybe if you change the title on your vid it will reach more people
Thanks for the suggestion! Not really sure what I would change it to though
@@ItsLava just thought of it, not very sure too actually but maybe darkside of Tamil film industry (actresses)
Growing i didnt even know amy was not tamil because it was so normalised to have white skin in movies and when i found out she was from liverpool in england where i basicly live my whole life and i didnt even know she was scouse i grew up watching her movies and it was so suprising and it really sad seeing india wanting to be lighter.
Oh wow. I think I only realised she was white because of Madrassapattinam. If not, maybe I would have also believed she was Indian
I have seen many dark skinned Indian girls who are popular well settled and happy . I've also been observing many light skinned attractive girls not settled and unhappy. Jayalalitha is a famous example
You did the right thing Keep Going ✨
Thank you!!
First one thing tamil girls never want to acting in films. No one parent will not agreed for that please understand this first because of casting couch no tamil are willing to act our parents always willing us educate us and never allowed us to acting understand this first
Wow
...this vdo shld reach more PPL
Thank you!
So unfortunate and hugely infuriating to see no native tamil person acting in the tamil cinema industry! Native women of tamil nadu needs more representation than those of the outside the state and foreigners!
I completely agree!!
Bro Tamezh cinema is represented by neighbouring state artistes like MGR,Nagesh, Rajnikant,Vijayakanth,Arya,BhagyaRaaj, singer SPB,P.Susheela,Jesudas,9thaara, Snake-a, Nitya Menon,etc. It's not the North Indians who are depriving Tamezh artistes of opportunities. THIS VIDEO IS JUST SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION.PROBABLY SHE'S ALSO FROM THE NEIGHBOURING SOUTHERN STATE.... NOT A TAMILIAN. 😂😂😂
Thanks for speaking up about this
Name and shame is the way to go starting with top directors like Mani Ratnam
I wish this video reach entire India, so girls get some relaxation and turn to their own real beauty instead of feeling what family and society tells, and boys get out their brain from foolish beauty beliefs ....
I talked about this in my high school presentation about 7 years ago. The Americans had no idea such a thing existed in India. When I tried to tell my own mother, she didn't get it. I think it's something that's sadly been accepted
Edit: I'm a Sri Lankan tamil
I’m glad you chose to do your presentation about this. Even though it’s sadly becoming normalized, we still have to try our best to spread awareness. I am a Sri Lankan Tamil as well!
@@ItsLavaU live in srilanka or India??
@@ItsLava You're a SreeLankan Tamezh? Pity that you still can't differentiate between your true friends and enemies even after the suffering the holocaust of your people.
Thank you for highlighting this blatant racism that is negatively impacting our fellow Tamil women. We must look forward to real Tamil women getting represented in the cinema of their own mother tongue.
Yes I completely agree!!
I dont think this will change, even common people are indirectly doing a genocide by rejecting dark skinned tamil girls in marriage
Are Nayanthara, Snake-a, Nitya Menon, Keerthi Suresh, Aishwarya Rajesh from the North? Do you know that they're not Tamilians? That they too don't care to speak Tamezh and always use dubbing artistes? THIS VIDEO IS JUST SPREADING FALSE INFORMATION WITH AN ANTI-NORTH BIAS.
Remove keerthy suresh from the list lol
@@Joshua12w2o Yes... I heard Amy Jackson is also a Tamilian from mother's side.😂😂😂
🙌🙌 Great piece.
Thank you 🙌
Why the hell is none talking about it... They don't even consider it a problem anymore...
Yea it's really unfortunate
Colourism affect women more than men , actually I never get discriminated ever in North , people love me for my humour etc stuff
Thanks for sharing!
This is AMAZING!!!!
TYY!!
சிறப்பு... மிக சிறப்பு ❤
Thank you!
Thank goodness you are calling this out
for your kind information aishwarya rajesh is telugu and not tamizh there are no tamizh actresses in tamizh cinema, the eligible criteria to become tamizh actress in tamizh cinema is to not know tamizh.
India never let go of the "colonial past". Sad.
Hi your English speaking skills is really amazing
She lives abroad so isn't it obvious
Preach!!
Haha thank you!
😂😂😂
The title is hilarious! 😂
Haha! thank you!!
This is not talked about enough 👏
Facts facts!
The editing makes this almost unwatchable.
Appreciate the engagement
Wow well said :)
Thank you so much:)
@@ItsLava ❤
both are pretty desi and videsi
This video should be watched by kollywoid directors
Well said !
Thank you!!
Where are you from?
Canada
I have to say that the root cause of this is self betrayal. We have betrayed ourselves to idolize and exalt others above ourselves. If we knew our own true worth, our true divine worth in God, we would never have fallen so low. We have forgotten who we really are and all this evidence (of self betrayal/hatred) around us should push us to remember our true Self
Yes this is true
Very well explained
Thank you:)
Amazing video! Thanks for speaking up about this issue
Glad you enjoyed!!
Keerthi suresh nayanthara ,nivetha thomas,These are brown skinned actresses not light skinned.they are pure south indian girl.
These 3 are kerailites and not tamils... 😶
@@cinephile4699keerthy suresh is half Tamil move on
Lemme tell u some names of pure Tamil actress in South Indian cinema
Athulya Ravi,Trisha krishan,sai Priya,sai pallavi,Priyamani,vani bhojan.
They are not typical kerelaties. They have mixed Jewish ancestory. None of the malayali actresses are native malayali. Same way Trisha and Keerthi Suresh are not pure tamils. They have Brahmin ancestory which means they have mixed Jewish ancestory.
@@arunganesh1900 Jewish ancestry🤣🤣🤣
@@Joshua12w2o do you know that nairs practiced niyoga ?
Nair women act as prostitute for brahmin (nambodari)
Aryan brahmins were invited by pandyas for the first time
But later cholas increased their numbers 😔
👍
how the accent sound different from abroad? or how
I'm not sure what you mean
😂😂😂
@@ItsLava I think they're confused why your accent sound non-indian i guess?
are you indian ??
no
Woww
Wht she tll is completely true
Yaaaaa my mom says I am too black to one will marry me she does not care if I am 9
Aw I’m so sorry you have to deal with that:(
THE AUDACITY AND THE OFFENSE!!
i just enjoy the story for movie if its nice cuz its made for entertainment
Yes I also still love and enjoy tamil movies, but it doesn't hurt to point out that it also has its issues
wow
🙏🏽preach💯💯
:))
Wait amy jackson speak tamil isnt she dubbed by someone else 😂😭
I'm pretty sure she's dubbed but I'm guessing she's learned a bit of Tamil from being in so many movies
🔥🔥
Tyyy!!
1. NOT TRUE THAT NORTHYS HAVE LIGHT SKIN !! EG. BENGALIS GUJJUS PUNJABIS ARE VERY DARK TOO. I PERSONALLY KNOW PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
2. WE ARE TAMILS AND MY PARENTS AND I VERY FAIR SKINNED.. SO ARE MOST OF MY Relatives.
3. HEMA MALINI, VYJAYANTIMALA SRIDEVI ARE VERY FAIR SKINNED SMITA PATIL A MARATHI WAS Pitch DARK .
3. RAJNIKANTH IS A MARATHI BY BIRTH!!!!! NOT TAMIL. TECHNICALLY NOT A SOUTH INDIAN!
4. GODS N GODDESSES ARE DEPICTED IN MARBLE IN NORTH ..MUGHAL INFLUENCE. IN SOUTH AKL THE IDOLS ARE BLACK STONE.
PHOTOS ARE JUST ARTIST LICENSE.
SO SKIN TONES VARY IN SOUTH AS WELL AS NORTH
🤧🌻yy
Good points, but the overwhelming majority of actresses in the south are of Southern origin
Facts, up to the point👌🤌. If you start making content in Tamil, this would perhaps reach a more right audience & influence more people.
Thank you! And yes you are right. I had to make this for a school project and my professors speak english so I had to stick to that language but maybe in the future I will make videos in Tamil!
@@ItsLava looking forward to it ✨
😭😭😭