The actress Sai Pallavi confirms that she rejected an ad on equity, according to which "this is Indian color"

The South actress, Sai Pallavi, confirmed that she was rejecting some time ago an advertising contract of a crore of 2,000 rupees with a mark of fair cream. In a recent interview, she explained her decision, saying that she was Indian-colored media websites such as HuffPost India, Pinkvilla and Indian Express. Sai Pallavi, known for his role in the 2015 film Premam granted the interview to the Telugu website, Behindwoods, that HuffPost India translated as follows: "It's the color We can not ask them why they are white and if they know that they will get cancer because of that, we can not look at them and we think that's what we want. the color of their skin and it's ours … Africans also have their own color and they are too.It's beautiful. "

" What am I going to do with it? Money I draw from such an announcement? I go home and I eat three chapatis or rice, I drive in my car.I do not have any other important needs.I see if I can contribute to the happiness of people around me or if I can say that these standards we see are wrong, "said Pinkvilla and Indian Express, quoted by her. [19659004] Sai Pallavi is one of the Indian celebrities who publicly challenge the notion of just the skin is beautiful. The actress Kangana Ranaut also reportedly refused to approve a fairness product a few years ago; actor Abhay Deol called colleagues such as Shah Rukh Khan and Sonam Kapoor for fair advertising creams; Filmmaker and actress Nandita Das has launched a campaign "Dark is Beautiful" and told the IANS news agency: "Women suffer from such low self-esteem because of these commercials (about fairness products) … This actually tells you: "You are not good enough, you can not find a lover, a husband, a job, you will make your parents sad & # 39 ;. It's like the day of the disaster. The messages are actually very dangerous. "

In the interview, Sai Pallavi recounted a childhood incident in which she" cheated "her sister by making her eat fruits and vegetables and told her that it would" give her a complexion. " She said, "I told her that if she wanted to be fair, she should eat fruits and vegetables. And she did … I felt very bad about that, about the impact it had on a girl five years younger than me. "[19659003] Sai Pallavi was last seen in Athiran and will then be seen in the film directed by Selvaraghavan NGK in the same role as Suriya.