{"id":62573,"date":"2024-03-15T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/15\/unfair-lovely-bollywood-film-india"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T05:00:39","slug":"unfair-lovely-the-bollywood-film-shining-a-light-on-dark-skin-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62573","title":{"rendered":"Unfair &amp; Lovely: the Bollywood film shining a light on dark-skin discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexions<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wife said he humiliated her for her dark skin, said it was time Indian society changed its \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/dialogue-at-home-needs-to-change-hc-on-skin-colour-bias\/articleshow\/106194741.cms\">dialogue at home<\/a>\u201d to eradicate prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>As if on cue, a new social comedy, Tera Kya Hoga Lovely (Unfair &amp; Lovely), tackles precisely this issue in the hope of nudging Indians into examining the common longstanding preference for light skin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/mar\/15\/unfair-lovely-bollywood-film-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an Indian judge says change must start at home, a new movie uses humour to examine family prejudice against children with darker complexionsThree months ago, a high court judge in Chhattisgarh, India, hearing a divorce petition by a husband whose wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,6,71,69,59,62,362,61,1480,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-business","category-culture","category-film","category-global-development","category-india","category-race","category-south-and-central-asia","category-unilever","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62573\/revisions\/62574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}