Beauty is a perception, for you, and as well as for me. Then there are beauty contests that define to us the beauty of a person. Few get the titles, and few lose them. But for whom are these contests held? Is it for the viewers, to define beauty to them, or is it for the contestants themselves, to choose who among them is more beautiful. Then there is the third party, that has come into being in the recent times, the Media.
The massive lobbying that is held, during any Beauty Contest are not hidden. Like the Oscars its the lobbying which gets you to the center-stage and beyond.
I started by talking about perception, but don’t you think that now a days, a lot of time, our perception are made by the Media rather than our own choices. Frankly speaking their may be millions in this country, who may find Aishwarya Rai as the most beautiful, as she may be, but not for me. I really don’t find her beautiful in any sense of the term.’For me’, she laughs awfully bad and her mouth is too big for her face, never mind.
Then the question here is not beauty, but whether the beauty is actually showcased or not? My gut feeling is that they are not. Because these days, you have 3-4 Make-Up person, 3-4 dress designers, people for teaching them how to talk, how to walk, how to dance and even how to smile. Now that’s really a bad thing. With so many trainers how are you going to find the most beautiful, the case is that you choose the most trained than the most beautiful.
I have nothing against beauty pageant, if someone among you think so, after all whenever held in India it will generate a lot of foreign exchange. But to think that it is showcase a countries wealth in terms of beauty, is totally incorrect. As even the so called Saree they wear(sometimes) is no were near to our Traditional Saree.
And the worst part is the way these contestants talk about world peace, animals and humanity. They never may have even considered that, till they are made ambassador of UNICEF or some Amnesty Organization. How many times have you heard that a runner-up of a beauty contest have ever done charity work for children or have done anything for the animal. These people are not beautiful, as there beauty wears out with there make-up.
There are people like Nafisa Ali, Latika Rana, and so many others who are working on the field of AIDS, charity and animal welfare. These are the people who are beautiful for the heart they process and not for the make-up they wear.