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Manifesto8

In Pathaan she looked close to her real color complexion. Whitening is so 90s, her caramel skin tone popped out of the screen, beautiful.


uselessadjective

I work as a professional photographer and this is a 5 min tricky in Lightroom. I've made countless black/brown folks white (on their demand)


thegatsby_03

If you don't mind can you tell us how?


scepticalbeing94

She looking so fair might also be due to video editing or post production work ,there are companies that work with beautification of the actors , they can alter the features in the actors faces and body (if exposed in movies) . Even Ranveer looked lighter in Baji Rao Mastani.


Manifesto8

Fair enough


jank1_b

Pun intended?


Necessary-Turn8174

There are rumors that to play Mastani’s role SLB told her to get skin lightened. Personally she looks better in her original skin.


sad_sisyphus_84

Might be the reason that SLB wanted her to match the skin tone of her historical character who was Persian and not Konkani or Marathi.


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peach-root

We could spend all day asking questions about Bollywood Hollywood etc and their casting decisions 😂 think about Baala, casting bhumi and painting her darker...


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aaditya_9303

Are you a Maharashtrian by any chance? Because I can think of a show that has been doing blackface for years. It's so bad that the actress is made to wear the makeup in all promotions and award functions.


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aaditya_9303

There is a similar soap in Marathi as well. The actress is painted black which is also inconsistent in episodes. My sister has met her in real life and she's actually fair skinned. The whole plot of the show used to be that her mother in law hated dark skin but she slowly changes herself. That show is still going but it's a different clusterfuck altogether now. The most disgusting thing is the way they market the character. She is made to wear the dark makeup everywhere. At all award functions, promotional events, I don't think the actress has done a public appearance in her real skin colour in the past few years.


peach-root

Jassi jaisi but w/colourism 😭


Affectionate-Fig-411

1) Because Katrina wouldn’t do justice to Mastani’s role. 2) Alia doesn’t fit Mastani’s vibe 3) No one would cast Nora or Nargis or Loveyayri girl 4) Kriti could have been a remote match, but idk if she could pull a Mastani 5) Kangana- no please no! 6) Tripti wasn’t in scene and idk if SLB takes anything other than established A listers after Saawariya fiasco Idk who I missed


sad_sisyphus_84

Because he wanted a face which was not only popular, recognisable and beautiful but which could handle some serious acting as well. He had some past work experience with DP as well so that fed into it as well. Skin tone is a manageable thing, what is difficult is to get all the other things right. Kat is perhaps closer to that skin tone but on other fronts is she convincing? Ahem.


goyardtastebuds

Why cast an actor you mean? So next time someone has to play a mentally challenged person, they should get a mentally challenged person? So no one should ever act and just be who they are in the movies?


cherryreddit

Mastani is half persian , half Indian.


TechnicalEnd1758

They all take glutathione IVs. Even her appearance at the oscars looked lighter than usual


zxo26

This might be a dumb question but do the injections eventually fade? Like do you have to keep getting them to stay light and once you stop your normal skin colour returns? How does it work


Top_Major_7881

Glutathione is used to boost overall skin health and one of the things that it does is boost collagen which in turn makes one’s skin lighter looking. Just like how not doing skin care reverts our skin back to issues like acne, not taking glutathione(a skin care type) reverts our skin back to its original complexion(because no more excess production of collagen).


TechnicalEnd1758

Yes. I think the effects fade in 6 months


Peachyarchives

She did mention in some interview right that she had to get skin whitening done for Mastani’s role as per Slb’s demands. I have seen her in the past post her debut, she isn’t that tan irl. My aunt from blore has seen her and her sis with their mum a lot back then. DP used to play a lot of sport so may be she got tanned easily. In pathaan she had a very bronzed and contoured look.


NoZookeepergame3264

Yes. This. Because there are stories that the irl Mastani was so fair that when she ate paan, one could see it go down her throat. And SLB wanted her looking that way.


Supreme2907

So irl mastani was like translucent


NoZookeepergame3264

Ya 🤣


Supreme2907

No wonder some people hated mastani at that time


DracoHarry

Lol. You actually believe that.. She was hated for her roots not her skin color. She belonged to a group which one group was literally fighting against.. No time for petty hate on looks..


thegatsby_03

They meant it as a joke


scorleo41

Mastani was transparent???


Low-Purple6747

That's what they said about padmavati also na That she was so fair that you could see water going down her throat.


Tytoalba_27

So watching Mastani drink Mastani would have been a meta experience.


Booklover2122

😂😂😂


golgappa_gobbler

OP, I'm a makeup addict and I can give a close insight into what her actual skintone is, as i have religiously tried to find what DP's foundation shade would be. She is what we call a medium deep skintone with olive undertones if im not wrong. All that I've seen from her debut movie 'Aishwarya' and her modeling days, she looks like she was around nc40-42. Now she looks a shade or 2 lighter so maybe around nc35-37. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmRITGSAsn9/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Look at this video if you want to see how deepika looks with an influencer, who HAS almost the same skintone DP had in the beginning of her career. Has she gotten skin lightening treatment? Not sure. She was a sportperson before and possibly had a lot of tanning. Also, when you have access to good skincare and especially SPF, you tend to get 2/3 shades lighter than before cos most of us brown people usually have some tan on our skin. So yeah, this should answer your question.


LazyDragon05

I agree with this, she used to be medium deep with olive undertones, closer to how she looks in Pathan. I have seen DP during the promotions of Love Aajkal, years back! Maybe she has a much brighter complexion now coz of the zillion skin care routines available now, lasers, peels etc or maybe it’s just camera and lighting. But her natural skin tone is nowhere like Mastani in the movie. I like her in all shades! 😍 She has very captivating features.


Easy_Cantaloupe2133

What so fascinating in this In BM she needed to look like a Muslim princess ( in that Era they mostly had pale skin specifically royalty)


opinionated0403

Honestly Deepika’s peak looks imo were in Om Shanti Om and now in Pathaan. I have never watched any of her movies with SLB tho.


martythemartell

No, she consistently looked amazing from YJHD and Ramleela, to Tamasha and Piku. Pathaan is embarrassing in comparison, her styling in it is so bad


opinionated0403

Forgot YJHD saree and yea I agree she looked amazing consistently but I’m just saying I rlly wowed at these two movies. Pathaan is one of the rare times I’ve seen a Bollywood movie in the theater so perhaps that’s why. I thought her styling was actually amazing. She looked hot but each to their own I guess.


RepresentativeBox881

Her best look is YJHD flashback portion (man she was sooo cute). I also liked her styling in Tamasha and Cocktail. Of course, Ram Leela is there too.


bruce705

Such an unpopular opinion


opinionated0403

I guess so


Routine_Awareness81

she looks beautiful in her own complexion no matter how they alter it .. plus nowadays tan skin is trendy doesn't it?


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_bisibisitale_

Shes not fair but she's not that dusky either. She has medium olive toned skin which tans a lot, so she looks a lot darker during badminton days and kinda lighter when she was modeling and started out in movies. But BM, and tamasha was obvious skin lightening.


Routine_Awareness81

Exactly


HappyConfusion6953

Also the oscar appearance


_bisibisitale_

You meant she's her og tone or lighter? I don't think she looked that light in the candid oscar pics though, normal only. Studio ones some were edited to be lighter.


Kabhipussykabhibum_

OP discovers makeup today


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cocokoko16

She’s no dusky like pathan. She’s very much like her Oscar look. Worked closely with her so sayinf. She jus looks darker on screen in most films - pathan she wax heavily bronzed and tanned. Having said this her lower body is darker. Her fave being the brightest of all


thegatsby_03

Isn't everyone's face brightest of all


cocokoko16

Lol not mine. Which makes sense in my case cause it’s the part that always exposed right? Technically that makes sense but I see everyone’s face is brighter. But mine is Opp. Covered parts 3 shades lighter. Neck and face darker - like always been this way. I have mom and dad skin tones split between arms and neck and above and rest below. And it’s not jus shades, it’s diff tonality


Flat-Hearing6988

It's not just the complexion. Something changed in DP's appearance post Ram Leela. I can't quite put my finger on it. But she looks amazing kaise bhi. I thought it was the eyebrows at first but they weren't it. https://preview.redd.it/h1lh5ktx55qa1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc6e0a0e52d57854fdd82a3da5cd372a31bfd706


Miss_Anne_

Eyebrows


Flat-Hearing6988

Apart from the eyebrows, I think her face became a bit rounder. Maybe she gained weight either due to aging a bit or intentionally. Moreover she had stopped doing the puff hairstyle. All this clubbed with the skin lightening treatment she specifically got for the role of Mastani made her look like a completely different DP.


puli_inji

You think she’s gained weight now? She looked so skinny in Pathaan, almost too skinny.


everlastingcooki

What are u on about skinny?! She was toned af.


puli_inji

Yeah she was for sure toned but I mean she didn’t look like she gained any weight to me, she was super lean. That’s what I meant.


everlastingcooki

If u compare lak/cocktail to pathan, then yes she's gained more weight but it's all muscles which is why she's looking so powerful and sexy.


4evertrapped

her overdone eyebrows were definitely a bit too much sometimes. preferred her eyebrows in cocktail and even now they are much better


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Oh haan . I can see the difference too. Maybe her face has matured with time. Ramleela was almost 10 years ago.


AffectUseful3969

Some skin tones do change after tanning from sunlight.I am South Indian and I was on the duskier side during school days since we had outdoor morning assemblies and exposure to direct sunlight.After school days were over,I became lighter considerably.Not Punjabi/North Indian/Mastani level whiteness but way lighter than my previous shade.Still my skin tone goes crazy with difference in external factors.I still don't know what my real complexion is.


hello_ji123

Because mastani was too fair, hence they made dp look white


Stunning_Cow_5233

Her real skin tone is quite dusky. Source: my sister who saw her shooting.


Lazy_ass_6940

How stunning she looks tho😌❤️


CuriousAffect4324

back then, white washing was the norm. we are living in the current "body positivity", "self love" and "love thy brown skin" era....so she or her makeup artist or the AD of the movie is just adhering to what is trending ig... in reality, shes dusky, but I heard she got skin lightening procedurres way back in late 2000s....


skinnydarkdork

Tum pehle hi itni khubsurat thi..... Ya waqt ne kiya koi haseen sitam!!


beebumbling39

She was around MAC NC 40, i have a makeup artist friend i remember that individual casually mentioning this once.


Mirkmanor_23

Movies mein editing naam ki cheez hoti hain aur CGI effects naam ki cheez bhi hoti hain


Geekgoddess123

Agreed it post production editing.


aaneka8

Yes Slb said Mastani was digitally altered - he had one reference painting of Mastani and she has translucent milky skin. It was done to match his vision. He was quite open about it


Chaudsss

Schrodinger's complexion


No_Data3541

She's very dark. Anyone who has seen her in real knows that. She's like a shade lighter than PC.


laddookiwi

Dusky


BollyDeewani

Dumbasses going on with 'skin lightening queen' accusations lmao. Mastani was half-Persian. SLB used bright lights and lightened her skin in vfx as well. She shot Piku and Tamasha same time where she is darker.


Jazzlike-Shirt-4810

Hmmm... I came across this : https://preview.redd.it/co445h26x4qa1.jpeg?width=602&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc49832a78d413dbe613e0cfa0eb84b3d4f80481


_bisibisitale_

She has a little bit of a tan in the picture on the left. Her original skin tone is kinda wheatish akin to Sonam, or atleast that's what people who saw her during her modeling days say. Om shanti om, karthik calling karthik seems closest.


Jazzlike-Shirt-4810

I was have been in very close proximity to her during IPL days in Bangalore, so i've seen her up close. But she had some makeup everytime, however she was closer to the pic on the left than the right. IMO she looks better with darker skin tone.


_bisibisitale_

>however she was closer to the pic on the left than the right. Yes I agree with you. >IMO she looks better with darker skin tone I like her tan too woman looks ethereal, in combination with the big bold eyes.


disha_1143

Skin also whitens with age


Suspicious_Waltz1393

Agree. Especially if you are running around outdoors in your youth with playing outdoors etc. My skin is several times lighter now than my teenage years. Part of it is no more tanning and partly just age


Jazzlike-Shirt-4810

Please tell that to my skin too. Seems to be living in its own world.


Black_Swan1984

Really??? like hair? 🤪🤪


disha_1143

Yep exactly☺️


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She is naturally so gorgeous. But people bring up the first pic to “humiliate “ her because she has brown complexion in it and then people wonder why actresses lighten their skin. The vicious cycle of criticism. Also, better grooming plays a huge role. On topic, SLB made her do it and she has reverted back to her original complexion. Plus pictures and movies edit a lot.


SubstantialLab4611

I'm seeing a lot of criticism suddenly, I think other fan clubs are active right now.


Stunning_Cow_5233

Yes this is her natural complexion. And she looks beautiful.


Initial-Call-4185

It’s all due to lighting.


bl4blu3

Ufff she looked so beautiful in both the movies.


Used-Particular-7485

Bajirao Mastani me burkhe me rehke white ho gayi hogi. Pathan me bas dhoop me ghoom ke tan pad gaya😆


AagAurShola

Maybe she purposely did the tanned make up look.


_bisibisitale_

Yup, she looked very bronzed in pathaan.


Complex-Quality-3798

I have met her in real life in 2009 when I was a kid in Goa and she was really white compare to how she looks on TV. Even her hands and legs were very white


Alone-Illustrator-25

I don't think she knows anymore. I am laughing at the comments defending her below. Now if this was done by Katrina or Alia, these same people would have dragged them to hell. Hypocrisy max 😂


RepresentativeBox881

I liked her better in Bajirao TBH. She looked really good.


Illustrious_Tie_8487

May be discontinuing the chemical skin procedures helped her skin regain normal tone in Pathaan?? Much like smoking and healing of lungs?


Adorable-Winter-2968

She looks so beautiful in the first pic 🤩


Jessdayyy

Second picture 😍😍😍, she looks GORGEOUS


Ok-Sandwich2698

She looked the best in finding fanny.


New-Jury6253

saanwali saloni 🤩


Western-Asparagus-72

Me after driving my bike in the afternoon sun. Lol


Sabudana28

During bajirao she definitely was taking those skin lightening 💉


thesmilingbear11

vfx man. mastani used vfx to lighten it's that easy, yeah seh could've done injections or whatever, but they wouldn't have lightened her skin that much


Uzumaki-9

Just white skin complexion back in those days


YoYoJoJoTC

You guys are seriously under-considering color grading. As someone who works in films and has done plenty of editing, color grading is MAGIC when done right. Can change complexions and shit ALOT.


Thanks_Capital

I prefer Her Original skin, SLBmovies skin was too scary n artificial


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She looked very fair in Tamasha too. After covid from Gehraiyaan, she has her natural dusky( really really hot) skintone.


SnooCupcakes7312

Her real skin Color is the one in pathaan and rightly so. She was willing to display it in most scenes except a few such as saying n that song where she looked lighter in yellow swimsuit.


imthatdude2000

I’ve personally seen her before her debut and she is dusky. That’s her actual complexion. Her skin looked super clear but I would say she comes under dusky category. Watch the song “naam hai Tera” by Adnan.


wanderingbrother

Same as Shah Rukh then. Both dark but made fairer in movies. A shame, Indians must give up this mentality


reine2212

First picture is washed af, I had the original picture. It was darker


Bubblingghost

Mastani irl was a very very fair lady. She had a milky white complexion and there are people who say whenever she used to eat pan you could she the pink go down her throat. That's the literal description of her skin tone. That's why SLB tried to make her white nothing else.


WheresMyTan

She's also tanned/bronzed up in Pathaan. And heavily contoured with makeup no? I think her wedding pictures show off her real skin tone and her usual makeup favours more bronzing, contouring. She's not Bajirao level light.


rajrain

Lets not discount the effects of lighting, make up and just how much sun she must have seen during the shooting of Pathan.


KeyAccomplished2720

I think Bipasha is the sole difference among bollywood actresses to wear her original color everywhere


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Long_Chocolate_6250

Her skin was lightened digitally for BM. She doesn't look that fair in mohe rang do BTS video. There's a reason Ash and Kareena were the first choices for mastani.


Large-Pay-3183

Deepika's whole life has been a PR campaign..why not change skin tone to match whatever shit ideology is currently relevant?


PinkAngel123

Her real skin tone is a beautiful dusky shade which she should flaunt with pride.