{"id":319176,"date":"2021-06-24T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=319176"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:44:50","slug":"ghana-ali-becomes-latest-celeb-to-call-out-gora-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/ghana-ali-becomes-latest-celeb-to-call-out-gora-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Ali Becomes Latest Celeb to Call Out &#8216;Gora Complex&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being called out by celebs like Amna Ilyas and Mansha Pasha, Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;gora complex&#8217; never dies. Now actress Ghana Ali is taking a shot at the problematic beauty standard.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, with people shirking the use of whitening creams, they still use photo filters to achieve the same result. The <strong><em>Saya e Dewar Bhi Nahi<\/em><\/strong> actress thinks it\u2019s high time Pakistanis reduce their obsession with whitening skin with the help of filters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_319180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-319180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-319180\" src=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ghana-Ali.png\" alt=\"Ghana Ali\" width=\"350\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ghana-Ali.png 350w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ghana-Ali-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ghana-Ali-31x48.png 31w, https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Ghana-Ali-62x96.png 62w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-319180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghana Ali calls out Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;gora complex&#8217;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/amna-ilyas-says-theres-nothing-wrong-with-being-dark-skinned-and-we-agree-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amna Ilyas Says There&#8217;s Nothing Wrong With Being Dark-Skinned And We Agree [Video]<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time celebs have gone after the &#8216;gora complex&#8217;. Dark-skinned celebs like Aamina Sheikh, Sanam Saeed, Amna Ilyas, Zara Abid, etc have worked for years to make a place for &#8216;actually brown&#8217; women in mainstream entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Amna Ilyas is very vocal about colorism in the entertainment industy. She has shared the type of comments she faced growing up and throughout her career.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe top five actresses (in the biz) are light-skinned, and those that weren\u2019t have made their skin lighter to be part of the race,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\t<blockquote  \r\n\t\tclass=\"instagram-media\" \r\n\t\tdata-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/B4w6UqEndds\/\" \r\n\t\tdata-instgrm-version=\"14\" \r\n\t\tstyle=\"max-width:540px; min-width:300px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\r\n\t<\/blockquote>\r\n\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\r\n\r\n\t\n<h3>Subtle Conditioning<\/h3>\n<p>While people are more vocal about the issue in general, they often give in to the beauty standards society keeps propogating. When that&#8217;s all mainstream media pushes at us it&#8217;s hard to love yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently people called out how there&#8217;s a lack of dark-skinned actors in the biz. And how an upcoming TV serial had Ahmed Ali Akbar use blackface in order to play the role of a dark-skinned man.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; letter-spacing: 5px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0;\">ALSO READ<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; font-family: Raleway ,sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/netizens-call-out-ahmed-ali-akbar-for-blackface-in-pari-zaad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netizens Call Out Ahmed Ali Akbar For Blackface in &#8216;Pari Zaad&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Meanwhile, actual dark-skinned actors like Salahuddin Tunio and Gohar Rasheed are typecast as antagonists. With the exception of Fahad Mustafa, who&#8217;s been a moviestar for years now, and Mohib Mirza that recently made a comeback to television, how many actors on Tv actually look like the average brown guy?<\/p>\n<p>What may seem harmless subtlely conditions us to associate certain things with a certain skin color. It&#8217;s high time mainstream film and television actually start catering to their audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being called out by celebs like Amna Ilyas and Mansha Pasha, Pakistan&#8217;s &#8216;gora complex&#8217; never dies. Now actress Ghana Ali is taking a shot at the problematic beauty standard. Over time, with people shirking the use of whitening creams, they still use photo filters to achieve the same result. The Saya e Dewar Bhi Nahi actress thinks it\u2019s high [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/ghana-ali-becomes-latest-celeb-to-call-out-gora-complex\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":283230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199,1291,1297],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-319176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured","9":"category-social-media","10":"category-tv-movies-music"},"wps_subtitle":"","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design13-364x205.png",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design13-758x427.png",758,427,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design13.png",1000,563,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Culture","Featured","Social Media","TV &amp; Film"],"title_text":"Ghana Ali Becomes Latest Celeb to Call Out \u2018Gora Complex\u2019","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199,1291,1297&exclude=319176","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319176"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=319176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}