SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

In her new movie starring Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone is supposed to be playing a half Chinese-half Indian girl. Which is quite an interesting role to play I guess, but the main problem was making Deepika look more Chinese for Chandni Chowk to China.

She says,

“I don’t know how or why Nikhil Advani thought of a South Indian like me with big eyes to play a Chinese. I play half-Chinese and half-Indian in the film. And to get my eyes to look less big and rounded and more slanted, some special make-up artistes were brought in. They suggested I stick tapes around my eyes.”

“My doctors said if I stick those tapes on my eyes for 12 hours a day, the shape of my eyes would change forever. So, instead, we got my make-up artiste Mallika Bhatt to do my eye make-up in such a way that my eyes looked slanting,”

Honestly though, I think her doctors might be idiots. A few pieces of tape is not going to change anyone’s looks permanently. If they did, why would anyone bother with plastic surgery? Big duh Deepika! But I think the make-up artists did a decent job with giving her more oriental features.

I’m interested to see how this movie turns out. Have you guys seen the posters? I wonder how else Nikhil Advani (who’s one of my favourite directors, but still) is planning to use every Chinese stereotype known to man?