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Shweta Sharan, a writer who lives in Mumbai, admits to being conflicted about whether or not to watch the movie with her 13-year-old daughter, Laasya, who until a year ago ardently loved Barbie but then outgrew playing with dolls. She bakes six or seven Barbie-themed cakes a week, with an actual doll at the center of a cake that serves as her frothy dress, constructed around her in a swirl of sugar and cream.īut for others in India, Barbie has a far more complicated legacy. While she no longer has her huge doll collection - having long since given it away to family and friends - Rajasingh is still a Barbie lover. It was fun to watch and brought back many joyful childhood memories," she says.
When the Barbie movie released in India on July 21, she gathered a bunch of friends, "everyone dressed to the nines in pink," and watched it on the day of its release. Today Rajasingh lives in the southern Indian city of Madurai, where she drives a pink mini-Cooper and runs a bakery and lives in an apartment that are dominated by that color. "And now it's become my identity." For her, the color represents love, joy, femininity and playfulness, everything she once associated with Barbie, she says. "My love for the color pink began with my childhood passion for Barbie," she says. She says she didn't like the Indian ethnic ones that came on the local market. On Rajasingh's 14th birthday, her parents painted her room bright pink and hired artists to draw her favorite Barbie dolls on the walls.Īll her Barbies were blond. Since her family ran a hotel, they put the dolls on display in the lobby in the late '90s. The mermaid Barbie and scuba-diving Barbie were her favorites. She once owned a Barbie camper, a speedboat, supermarket and post office. When Vichitra Rajasingh was growing up, family and friends helped her build her collection of Barbie dolls until she had almost 80 of them. She's one of India's biggest Barbie fans. She says the dolls remind her of her grandmother, who passed away at age 87 in January and who used to surprise her by sewing outfits for her dolls. At the bakery she now runs, she bakes about half-a-dozen Barbie cakes a week.
Living in a small town at a time when there wasn't much entertainment, she says Barbie was a source of limitless imagination. Vichitra Rajasingh had 80 Barbies as a kid.
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