As a British-Tamil teenager with hardcore movie buffs as parents, Tamil cinema and pop culture is not something I can avoid. I spent a lot of my childhood watching Tamil films.
Does colourism exist in the Tamil community? It most certainly does. How often have we heard comments about our skin colour, or sympathetic remarks about someone who could be beautiful if they were only a little fairer?
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