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Priyanka as Mary: Politics of prettiness?
Times of India | Indradeep Bhattacharyya | Aug 29, 2014, 06.48 AM IST
Twenty-three-year-old Laishram Devraj Singh from Imphal hasn't heard of Munni or Sheela. But you ask him about Ku Hye-sun, he is so familiar with the South Korean actor-director's oeuvre that he can name all the films by her..
"Was Priyanka, a Punjabi and former Miss World, chosen because someone from our province may not look Indian enough to attract the audience all over the country? Then, all the business of Priyanka needing to use prosthetic eyelids and extensive make-up to look "deglamourized" enough to play Mary Kom is a slight, first of all to the athlete, and in a broad sense to the physical features of people of the northeast. This is clearly racist," says N Joykumar Singh, a student of Manipur Institute of Technology.
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