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Beauty Lies in the Eye of Beholder?

The Ugly Duckling in a how you look anymore but what you deliver is of
Contrast World!!! importance to people.
The duckling who was a little Famous celebrities from Hollywood and
different from the others was Bollywood have stepped up to voice against this
the most beautiful of them all. voracious act of body shaming. Among those are
He knew how to swim and Lady Gaga who shut body shamers with “I’m
instead of ‘Craoauk-ing’ he proud of my body and you should be proud of yours
Shaltiel Samudre
would quack more gracefully too”.
than the others. Everyone began to shower him all Even Sonam Kapoor has elaborated exquisitely the
their love and affection and were fond of his need to bust the myth of looking flawless in her
different appearance. He lived happily with them essay. She has discussed many insecurities she had
throughout his life, thus being the only swan in the which led her to be a plastic self in front of the
flock of ducks. camera; but with her sister Rhea and her make-up
This would never have any meaning in the true artist Namrata, she did come out of the plastic self
world which saw the ugly duckling face hardships and took efforts to be real, real Sonam Kapoor. As
before becoming one of the most beautiful swan. she said, “Pursue prettiness for yourself, by your
As truly said by Khalil Gibran, “Beauty is not in own definitions- not to meet culturally preset
the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” In today’s notions of flawless as flawlessness is a dangerous,
world, beauty is all about being attractive in high-budget myth and it’s time we shattered it”;
appearance and self-obsessed about having an says a lot in itself that beauty has become a lifestyle
upper hand on the screen. It’s a dynamic tool used to rather being just an adjective.
captivate perceptions and is in advantage of being a “ People are like stained-glass windows. They
superior individual. sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when
A sense of self-belief to achieve success has been the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
linked to the way one appeals to the world. Films in only if there is a light from within”.
the recent past have portrayed the necessity to look - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
attractive in order to be successful. This results in a
fear to be lonely in a quest to gain social acceptance.
Advertisements to a large extent, have been able to
convince the youth that fairness is the new beautiful
and training our mind to do so has left us in a small
bubble of fake recognition.
It is this stage where ideologies and perceptions
begin to hover around young minds and the cruel
act of discrimination as well as evil practice of
finding faults with those not appealing
commences…

However, things have been changing lately with all
celebrities promoting beauty of the heart rather
than the face as said by Gibran. Movies such as
Dum Lagake Haisha, Sand Ki Aankh, Bala have
focussed on the fact that beauty is just an adjective
used to praise rather than to believe. People have
been vocal against body shaming and hence, its not

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