Model-turned actor, Amna Ilyas has surely become a force to be reckoned with after numerous successful years in the industry. She gained prominence with her modelling career and has walked the ramps season after season, one designer to another and has also been part of a number of high end campaigns. She proved her mettle over the years with her confident walk, her pretty features and her million-dollar smile. After spending a reasonable time on the ramps and modelling for various designers, Amna Ilyas has tried her hand at the big screen.
Moving away from her modelling days, Amna Ilyas has been seen in films including the likes of Gardaab, Dekh Magar Pyaar Se and more recently, Baaji and Ready Steady No. Amna Ilyas has always been an avid user of social media and uses her Instagram as a way of keeping her thousands of fans updated and entertained. She is also known to use the platform to shed light on important issues and has on many occasions highlighted the discrimination dusky-skinned girls in the industry face, including herself.
There has been much talk in the recent past, pertaining to the use of and promotion of fairness creams and many brands have slowly tried to move away from the practice after facing severe backlash. Amna Ilyas has been vocal on this topic for quite some time now and recently took to micro-blogging site, Twitter to raise her voice against it once again.
Using the hashtag #Endcolourism, she took to Twitter and wrote, “My fellow colleagues inthe industry,time fr promoting fairness creams fr the sake of money n greed has long passed.Our influence as public figures is meant to make othrs feel beautiful,not less beautiful.Shame on evryone,who still subscribes tothis way of thinking! #endcolourism (sic)” Here is the tweet:
My fellow colleagues inthe industry,time fr promoting fairness creams fr the sake of money n greed has long passed.Our influence as public figures is meant to make othrs feel beautiful,not less beautiful.Shame on evryone,who still subscribes tothis way of thinking! #endcolourism
— AMNA ILYAS (@IlyasAmna) October 6, 2020
http://thebrownidentity.com/2020/10/07/galabiscuit-trends-on-twitter-as-celebs-slam-pemra-for-banning-ad/
Many netizens followed suit and commented on her tweet with supportive messages, most of which were in agreement with her. Here are some responses to her message.
True
— NABEEL QURESHI (FCCA) (@nabz021) October 6, 2020
Fully agree, and support this
— Adnan Shaikh (@adnanshaikh25) October 6, 2020
@IlyasAmna I like and I love "gahri rangat wali larkian" like deepika because of that "gahri rangat wali larkian" is more attractive then " Gori larkian" .
— NOORULHUDA (@NOORULH98611677) October 6, 2020
@IlyasAmna because of gahri rangat wli amna i follwo to you
— NOORULHUDA (@NOORULH98611677) October 6, 2020
A number of local publications and magazines took note of Amna Ilyas’s tweet, causing it to trend across social media.