Meera Jasmine is known as a "regional" actress, meaning that she does not work in Bollywood cinema, which technically does not describe Indian cinema as a whole, but the cinema arising out of Bombay. As you can see by Meera's photo, regional actresses tend to look more like the classical Indian woman than their Bollywood counterparts, who prefer to imitate a more Western look, sometimes with the help of surgery. (Some of those noses look a little too pert!) Regional actresses also tend to have body shapes more representative of natural women, rather than bodies that aim for Western fashion ideals of thinness. There's just more woman there to hold and love!
This photo is from her newest film, NEPALI:
