Via our news tab, mutineer Rupa alerts us to this week’s SECOND sepia fugging on the popular (and brutal) Go Fug Yourself blog. While I don’t necessarily agree with Heather’s review of pretty Parminder, I think the girls at GFY are usually spot-on with their wit and crit.
Rupa’s tip was about Mindy Kaling, someone whom I will admit I don’t know much about because she’s on NBC’s lesser version of The Office, a show I have never been able to sit through for an entire episode. No matter. The genius of GFY is its focus on the outfit. I don’t need to be an Office-fan to grasp THAT. Or not grasp it, as is the case here…what is up with those boots?
From the knees up, she looks adorable, all set for a divine NBC-Universal booze cruise of clenched-teeth joy, where every toast to their wonderful fall schedule comes with paranoia from Jeff Zucker that people will figure out they’ve swapped the costly champagne and top-shelf liquor with well booze and sparkling cider.
But her shoes are pure “local theater revival of Xanadu.” They look like she stapled wallpaper scraps to her ankles.
They actually look like chausses to me, but vatewer. Like expert Fugger Heather, I dig everything else she’s got going on, too. Her skin is glow-y, little black dresses are always money and the coral-red beads look great on her. But the boots…oy.
A few days ago, Brimful sent us the other GFY-related news item about Parminder Nagra getting fugged. In a delightful bit of connectivity, if you search SM for Mindy Kaling, Brimful’s comment about her here is one of two results you’ll find. If you can spin some sort of conspiracy theory out of that and the fact that both fuggees are on NBC shows, bring it. 😉
On to Parminder, specifically what GFY had to say about HER threads, since Fugger Heather and I already agree on the following:
Parminder Nagra is gorgeous.
Word. Where’s the “but”?
Which is why I wish heartily that she hadn’t gone and upholstered herself…Her body looks tense, as if she’s uncomfortable or uneasy in this confusing crosshatched fabric-store nightmare. I suspect it’s because no one expects the Spanish Inquisition — you have to maintain constant vigilence when you’re dressed as something resembling a Comfy Chair, because you risk being dragged unexpectedly into their brand of comfortable torture. From there it’s a short slide down to poking some old woman with the soft cushions and wondering, “How did this become my life?”
Owie. I don’t think she looks UPHOLSTERED, but I might be a little biased; I love green, plaid and wrap-dresses, so put Parminder Nagra in all of the above and I’m rather content. I know, it’s not her best look but if this is what “fugly” means…
fug•ly (adj.)
frightfully ugly; of or pertaining to something beyond the boundaries of normal unattractiveness. Ex: “That ‘Kabbalists Do It Better’ trucker hat is fugly.”
…in that picture, she’s not fugly to me. 🙂 Your thoughts?
:+:
On a slightly related note, I was just looking at this post when I realized that neither of these accomplished actresses are the color of milky tea. They don’t have jewel-colored eyes, fair skin or blonde/auburn hair/highlights. In other words, they look like plain old desi me. That thought made me happy, after a lifetime of hearing “You’re so pretty for a dark girl,” while growing up in Northern California. I could tell you stories about my personal experiences with the entire “fairness-is-a-virtue” mindset which would dislodge your jaw, but I’ll save it for later.
After approximately three seconds of basking in the glow of these two, I realized that if we swapped the “H” for a “B”, they’d never make it in THAT version of the industry. Hollywood will use an actress which looks like me, Bollywood…won’t.
thanks kid.
for updating it with rupe’s bloglink. I was just dying to see a pic of a well executed hand job while enjoying my tea. rupe, you dirty girl, you!
Nominees for Mr Blackwell’s list ?
Note: I just added a new ending to this post, after being inspired by my belly button.
dude, i had no f**king idea that the chik on the right was nagra. iz that her for realz?
and she duz look like sheez going to snap.
solid coda, anna. as for the initial question, i have to go with the fug girls. “upholstered” is most appropriate. yecch!
i think parminder’s dress could have been attractive if it fit her better. i feel like wrap dresses are supposed to flatter a girl’s curves, but hers makes her look like she has none. and i think gfy is correct on mindy’s look.
On the same day that Brimful left that fug shot on our News Tab I searched for news articles about Parminder and found this one. I’m wondering if it is a fake though because it doesn’t explain the context in which it was taken. If it is a fake I don’t know how it got filed under Google’s news directory.
anna:
i couldn’t stand the office either…but then it clicked…and alas since arrested development is lost..and every other show is some pathetic reality tv show like ‘be my nanny’, or ‘become the next fashion stud’.. the entire spectrum of good tv has become minsicule… hence netflix subscription have gone sky high
fugly.. definition i thought meant ‘f*cking ugly’… sounds better that way, and really describes the 2 gals in ‘my super sweet 16’–divya/priya need plastic surgery… and to stop feeling elephants that look like their louis vuitton bag (are those gals for real?)
Mandy Kaling looks hideous… Parmindra just needs another dress..or better fit for her body type…they both are not fugly…the page made a mistake and should’ve put the two dimwits from Beaumont, Tx on it..because to be perfectly frank, their outfits that they wore on the show..the indian ones were god damn ugly…. i thought super money could buy better outfits… but i guess super money can’t buy good taste ;)…
Oh well…
Awww… poor Mindy Kaling. She might not be much of a dresser, but the girl is hilarious, hilarious, I tell you! And I contend that The Office (US) is really carving out its own niche, having seen both the UK & US versions now.
And Abhi, why am I not surprised you dug up that article about Nagra? 😉
And Abhi, why am I not surprised you dug up that article about Nagra? 😉
that wuznt abhi, that was perv_abhi.
Hey it’s my job and I take what I do seriously. If I don’t spend the day digging up desi related news then who will? 😉
If I don’t spend the day digging up desi related news then who will?
perv_abhi, check the credit. i’m an amateur brownologist….
Abhi, the pic was real and featured in a fashion spread in a glossy magazine…
So, she’s Parminder “Nanga” now?
Anyway, she’s beautiful, as always. Yo, if that’s fugly, I’ll take two.
That dress does look like a cross between French country design and Kabuki theatre. But it isn’t anything Miuccia Prada wouldn’t make, and it sure as heck isn’t anything Bjork wouldn’t wear.
Dress sense does not make one fugly – that’s just plain mean spirited to fug them. It would have been more appropriate to put the offending boots/plaid upholstery dress behind the Glamour black “Don’t” bar.
I mean, seriously, those are pretty girls!! I think the whole Queer Eye/American Idol/whateverthenewshowsareIdon’tknowabout culture of being hyper-critical of other people’s tastes has gone too far in the US.
I realized that if we swapped the “H” for a “B”, they’d never make it in THAT version of the industry. Hollywood will use an actress which looks like me, Bollywood…won’t.
yep. i was shocked when a FOB friend pointed me to a pic of bipasha basu as a “dark actress,” seeing as she is probably lighter than the typical brown. my friend’s response to this was, “hey, you don’t have ugly people on TV in america, same thing.”
Hollywood will use an actress which looks like me, BollywoodÂ…wonÂ’t.
They have been quite a few darker complexioned actresses in Bollywood. Amongst the A-listers: Smita Patil (started as an art house actress but later did very commerical movies with Amitabh B. etc.), Nandita Das, Mallika Sherawat, and no other than Bipasha Basu. Even Shahbana Azmi is no Kareena Kapoor, and she has done quite a bit of Bollywood commerical movies.
You can also never forget: Silk Smita.
Sure, there is fixation for lighter complexion in Bollywood.
Now Hollywood A-list: only one Halle Berry. Is she really dark complexioned?
kush, i just google imaged all those women. yes, they are dark, by bollywood standards. one of them would be dark on the distribution of brown people, some of the pictures suggest they’d be fair in much of india, and none of them would be shifted beyond the skin complexion median toward the darker end. and halley berry is a hell of a lot more chocolate than most bollywood actresses, even if she is mixed-race.
p.s. this is not a big deal, but this color issue came up with my friend as he was ragging on me about american racism.
one of them, i meant none of them.
It’s so funny how she can look like a fugly soccer mom in the above picture and a sexy chick in another.
I should admit my fashion sense is non-existent (in a perfect world jeans and a t-shirt would be considered formal wear, and I still wear flannel). Also, I ain’t gonna lie, I have a mild crush on Ms. Nagra. But that dress, yeesh. I wouldn’t describe either of these women as fugly though, no matter what they’re wearing. This goes to show that red carpet walkers should shift their focus from trying to make the best dressed list and concentrate on avoiding the worst dressed.
Aw, NBC’s “Office” is much better than people want to believe. Unfortunately, it shot itself in the foot by having its debut episode be a horrendous word-for-word reenactment of the first BBC episode. It took a few episodes for them to bring the US characters into their own, but the payoff was worth it. I was a huge fan of the original, but now I find myself more invested in the whole Jim/Pam thing than I was for Tim/Dawn.
Oh, and Sonia, thank you so much for that Parminder pic. Rowr! 🙂
Oh, and Sonia, thank you so much for that Parminder pic. Rowr! 🙂
can we pleez respect the ladies? women aren’t there for your to get off on man, we gotz to respect ’em as equals. A++, not T&A. props for her acting, not her ass.
in terms of bollywood, sushmita sen and priyanka chopra are also not fair-skinned, despite the pasty pancake make-up that is applied on them. they also do that to bipasha basu sometimes. their faces are several shades pastier than their arms in some movies.
those dresses (and shoes) above are indeed fugly. why are they dressing like grandmas?
Jesus H Christ….what is wrong with these girls? What the hell are they wearing and both are such lovely lasses. Gooddamn whoever dressed them needs to be fired yesterday and beaten. Plaid is fine on the inside of a jacket (occassionaly outside), on a purse (I prefer on the inside), on a hot Irishman on St Paddys day, on your dog etc etc. For petes sake. And the black dress might be ok if it was a bit more shapely and the whole Ugg look a la Jessica Simpson & Paris Hilton is the dumbest fashion idea ever. Jessica and Paris can pull it off, mere mortals should NOT be wearing it!!!
paris hilton bathes with feces. i shit you note, follow the link….
ANNA: You sepia goddess- You are far prettier than Kareena Kapoor- Whose claim to beauty is her “Gora Gora rang” . You should totally write a post on your experience- one for the girls! so we can all vent.
Parminder is gorgeous- but I agree she does look lost in that outfit – the cut and the pattern make her waist disappear. End rant- Gotta pack!!
i shit you not. not my day for spelling 🙂
Kareena Kapoor- Whose claim to beauty is her “Gora Gora rang”
the kapoor chix look horsey 2 me.
Ewww.. Razib- Was that for “Simple Life” ? What IDIOT parents leave their kids under Whoris’s care.. She wears the same bathing suit she was “washing” the car to give a baby a bath?? This is soooo wrong- can she go to jail for this??
hilton’s are untouchable. i heard she landed on a german farmhouse with her helicopter and had her guards evict the family so she could take a piss in their house. last i cheked the deutsch gov. has no warrant out on the ho.
Well, okay then. I’m sorry I said “rowr.”
What I meant to say was, “Ding dong!”
Kareena Kapoor looks like a desi Paris Hilton. Her face annoys the shit out of me.
Parminder’s dress doesn’t photograph well. I bet if you saw her face to face, that dress would look hot to you 🙂
Kareena Kapoor looks like a desi Paris Hilton. Her face annoys the shit out of me.
so, are saying saying that KK has been banged by all of old delhi, or wut?
must agree with kareena kapoor.. she is fugly..her face? ugh. just because her fam is in the biz she got films..otherwise she’d be off in the streets of mumbai
I think Parminder’s dress would look great if it were a better fit. The shoulders look off, and it doesn’t look too flattering at her waist. But it would be super pretty. Maybe she needs to gain a little weight or something. Those shoes on Mindy Kaling, nothing could make those look better. Nothing. They should be taken away and shot.
define pretty. is it the same as attractive?
or maybe it’s all in the eye of the beholder. that green plaid is wrapped around and hooked on one thread. what lies beneath?
Howdy ya’ll!
I agree about Parminder: the dress isn’t something I’d pick out for her but it would be acceptable if it were just tailored a little better.
Mindy Kaling is EFFING HILARIOUS. She writes many of the episodes of The Office, which has definitely taken on its own identity in the 2nd season. Pretty awesome achievement for a woman in a show that’s a total frat house. She’s adorable on the show and looks cute here… with the exception of the boots. They are total fug.
Parminder ben– please ask next time you want to cut up my Nani’s sofa slipcovers.
Desi girls gone fugly? Puhleez someone replace gone with always have been. Peace
The first gal ain’t so bad, the boots were a bad choice and I wouldn’t recommend beads(but then, that’s my personal preference) but otherwise she looks ok. And – ohmygosh – is that Parminder?? I object to the use of plaid on anything other than a handbag or the lining of a jacket. The dress isn’t cut well either – it seems a few sizes to big at the shoulders, the sleeves are too long, and it is entirely unflattering.
I lowe Kobayashi.
It is entirely possible to admire a woman’s hotness whilst simultaneously respecting her as an equal and appreciating her for her personality/accomplishments/etc.
The two concepts are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Parminder’s dress – so fugly it’s foogly!
The Kareena Kapoor-Paris Hilton comparison is dead on! I really don’t see the fuss about Kareena, I mean she’s nice looking in a Panju way but certainly not a great beauty. But she’s considered pretty because she’s so ghostly-pale.
they’ve just got too much makeup on that’s all.
SP–Kareena Kapoor ghostly pale? Um..no she’s a brownie…and not the white choco kind either….her eyes are too close in for her face…and she is fugly no matter what brown paper bag she wears..unlike the 2 indian chicas above who are both gorgeous..just caught in the wrong shoes/outfit…
mindy is fugly regardless of what she’s wearing. It doesn’t help that her character on the office is incredibly annoying.