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Bollywood
Beauty or

Blunder?

High standards imposed on Bollywood’s leading actors

force them to become transformed through cosmetic
surgery. However, surgical procedures sometimes go

Despite our love and awestruck awry and hoped-for beauty turns into a blunder.
attitude for all things Bollywood, By Krishna Mawani
it is common knowledge that the
industry is an appearance-obsessed
one. Leading ladies need to look blunder
their youngest, slimmest and
hottest, while male stars must be Koena Mitra
wrinkle-free and retain their hair. This Bengali beauty started becoming a popular
The pressures are high and the name in the early 2000s with sensuous dance
standards even higher. That’s why numbers and glamourous roles in movies like
the VIVAMAYR, a clinic in southern Musa r (2004) and Apna Sapna Money Money
Austria, has become immensely (2006). With the increasing limelight, Koena Before After
successful among celebrities. As Mitra decided to get a nose job — the most
Farah Khan pointed out during disastrous decision she could have ever made. The surgery caused her facial bones
her recent episode on Ko ee with to swell up, and even the doctors had no remedy. Her face looked dis gured, which
Karan, Indian lm stars are ocking took a number of corrective surgeries to x. But by the time she looked better, the
there to either lose weight, detoxify o ers dried up and her career in Bollywood was over.
or go home with glowing skin.
And as Rakhi Sawant famously
said, “A doctor can give you what blunder
God hasn’t.” However, the results Jeetendra
aren’t always positive. While some The rst “Jumping Jack” of Bollywood a.k.a.
actors undergo the knife and Jeetendra is one of our favourite heroes
evolve into improved versions of from the mid-90s. He gave a new dimension
themselves, others face traumatic to dancing by always being one step quicker
transformations. Let’s take a look than his heroines. As much as we miss his
at some celebrities who have quirky “Nainon Mein Sapna” moves, we are not
either undergone career-making Before After impressed with his current look. The 74 year-
beauty transformations or career- old has injected a little too much Botox in a bid
threatening blunders. to look like his younger self. In fact, he looks
almost like a wax gure now!

blunder

Ayesha Takia

Ayesha Takia, once the girl-next-door actress, has trans gured her face to be
reminiscent of the 19 year-old Kylie Jenner. Just like Kylie, her face is now de ned by
high cheekbones, fuller lips and a line-free forehead. And those long eyelashes and the
splash of makeup plastered on her face only add on to the hardened facial structures,
giving her an ungraceful look. We hope this formerly cute actress soon realises that
Before After natural is so much better.

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