Barbie Indian Doll (styles may vary)

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Barbie is an idea,” said Seema Chawla, the head of marketing of Mattel in India, where the new line is slated to arrive in April. “Her popularity was proof of the fact that she allowed girls to imagine what they could be. She was a fashionista, a family woman, a princess and the president. They wanted to be like her.”

After reliving their childhood memories, desis thought that some Indian celebs can also perfectly play the roles of Barbies and Kens in the movie. Soon, they started recreating the Barbie posters, featuring their favourite Indian actresses and celebrities. Take a look: Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Don’t get me wrong. Margot Robbie is no slouch as what the movie calls “Stereotypical Barbie” — the blond bombshell that kids in Mattel focus groups point to when presented with diverse Barbie dolls and asked, “Which one is Barbie?” Stereotypical Barbie starts the movie as a confident woman who knows exactly who she is, and doesn’t ever want anything to change. She lives in Barbieland, a fantasy realm conjured by Mattel that’s powered by the imaginations of kids who play with Barbie dolls. It’s a world ruled by Barbies, and unashamed of traditional feminine tropes. The president is a Barbie (played by Issa Rae, in a pink silk “President” sash). The Supreme Court is all Barbie. And every Nobel Prize winner in history is — you guessed it — a Barbie. Every pink-washed DreamHouse mansion in Barbieland is owned by a woman who makes her own money and spends her free time indulging in “girls’ nights” where everybody shares a glorious communal wardrobe. I did not expect Barbie to be a movie about Ken — and more importantly, a movie Ryan Gosling steals with such glorious aplomb that I can’t even be that mad at him for it.Someone thought that Kareena Kapoor Khan’s character ‘Pooh’ from ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham’ and Rani’s character ‘Tina Malhotra’ in ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ can also be added to the list of desi Barbies.

After such an eventful life, however, Barbie is having to change. In January, she shed her impossibly slender figure that has been derided for three different body types – tall, petite and curvy – with seven skin tones, 22 eye colours and 24 hairstyles, throwing the world into a debate of whether it’s “too little, too late”. In India, Barbie’s lifestyle, with her attraction to glamour and her relationship with her on-off boyfriend Ken, did not initially fit into the idea of a conventional Indian upbringing, says Nemani. “It is precisely the sexualised fiction of Barbie’s body that the Indian public repudiated. In India, hyper-sexualised depictions of females are often perceived to be obscene and are subject to censorship.” Since people were so desperate to see desi celebs as Barbies, online fashion police Diet Sabya curated a list of female Indian celebs as Barbies and gave a funny twist to their characters. Priyanka Chopra’s Barbie is “Girl don’t yell, we are here for love.” Image Source Deepika Padukone’s Barbie is “Patchouli Pathaan.” Image Source Alia Bhatt’s Barbie is “Screaming Shivaaaaaa.” Image Source Katrina Kaif’s Barbie is “A Bhabhi.” Image Source Anushka Sharma’s Barbie is “Causing a traffic jam.” Image Source Sonam Kapoor’s Barbie is “OG fashion gworl.” Image Source Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Barbie is “A Bandra wali.” Image Source Natasha Poonawalla’s Barbie is “Mrs. Vaccine.” Image Source Kangana Ranaut’s Barbie is against “Bhikari movie mafia.” Image Source Urvashi Rautela’s Barbie is “Youngest human citizen universe winner.”Arya, who played with the Sindy and Barbie dolls herself as a child growing up, never thought she would play the character on screen. According to her, the power of the toy combined with the reach of TV and films that have long formed an inextricable part of the everyday cultural experience—with families coming together at the end of a day to identify with their on-screen counterparts—could be a gateway to inspire conversation and even question societal norms. “TV-watching is how I grew up, coming to terms with my Indian identity in England’s Guildford,” she explains of her experience watching the British-Asian sketch comedy show Goodness Gracious Me. “For the first time, we saw South Asians, our family homes, stories about them, that allowed us to just poke fun at ourselves. It was brilliant.” Her cousins and her, inspired by the tales of the TV show, wrote their own kids’ version, building character arcs and facets. “I guess I felt seen from that. Films contribute massively to shifting culture. It should inspire conversation. I especially think young audiences will be encouraged to question societal norms and develop a more progressive and inclusive mindset on beauty and self-worth after watching Barbie.” Screen Time I grew up in a Barbie household, as well as a deeply feminist household. Along with My Little Pony, Cherry Merry Muffin, and (prized above all) my extensive collection of She-Ra action figures, my mother gave me and my sister Barbie dolls for “imaginative play,” something Mom encouraged just as much as she encouraged us to play video games — for hand-eye coordination and for our potential careers in STEM, naturally. Along the journey, people made their own versions of Barbie. Hima Sailaja, an Indian fashion designer, draped a teenage doll in different styles: there’s a Jhansi Lakshmi Bai doll, one that wears loose dungarees and another that goes to work in a simple salwar kameez. Twenty-four-year-old Haneefah Adam recently came out with Hijarbie, a Barbie in a hijab, for Muslim girls to have a stylish role model. The Middle East offers the Fulla, a conservatively dressed Barbie, Pullip is the rage in Korea, and the Sara and Dara dolls promote Persian culture. However, Chawla points out that Barbie was never meant to be an Indian Barbie. “It was a part of an International series of what would happen if Barbie went to India. It was meant more as a souvenir for NRIs and tourists.”

It's A Good Day To Be Indigenous T-Shirt, Native American Shirt, Indigenous Lives Matter Tee, Indigenous Awareness Day2023, Proud IndigenousThere was a closed trade regime and licensing system, so Mattel entered into a joint venture with the company Blow Plast Inc. Barbie was finally launched in India in 1991-’92.