NEW DELHI - India’s traditional six-yard wonder is igniting imaginations anew. The sari, say fashion designers, can be worn over a pair of jeans or jazzed up with a sexy slim belt for a trendy look.
Designers like Tarun Tahiliani and Nida Mahmood showcased the sari in new avatars at the recently concluded Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) here. What’s more, young girls are all for these innovative styles.
Kanika Rastogi, 19, says she was resisting the idea of wearing a sari for her sister’s wedding for the fear of looking older until she saw models flaunting Tahiliani’s saris with a belt.
“I would never have thought of wearing a sari for my sister’s wedding. I didn’t want to look old. But when I saw models wearing saris with belts, I thought it would make me look really cool. So that’s just what I am going to do now - save money by not buying an expensive lehenga and wear a sari stylishly instead,” Rastogi told IANS.
When asked about his innovative accessorising of the traditional outfit, Tahiliani said: “Belts can be used over saris by slim and tall people. It accentuates the waist, looks sexy and adds style as well as youthfulness to the outfit.”
The designer, who is making Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s wedding trousseau, says adding a silver or gold belt - a modern alternative to the good old ‘kamarbandh’ - over a sari also gives a Greek look to the attire.
“The Indian and Greek styles of dressing are all about draping - and very similar. They usually wear waist bands over gowns so these belts work to add that extra bit of Indo-Western look to a sari,” he said.
Young designer Nida Mahmood says it’s the coolest thing to wear saris over jeans - a fashion statement she herself made at WIFW.
“The idea of wearing saris over jeans is my interpretation of wearing a sari in a trendy manner. This is a trend that youngsters can follow for any casual party. It looks very good, especially if you are carrying the outfit with the right accessories and look,” Mahmood told IANS.
Others like Jai-Parvesh and Hemant-Nandita also have suggestions to make. Both designer duos swear by pre-pleated and lehenga saris, which are easy to wear and carry at the same time.
While pre-pleated saris are like skirts with pleats stitched on to them, lehenga saris have a flowing silhouette (kali) below, and has a heavy pallu replacing a well-draped dupatta on the left shoulder.
Said Jai: “Young girls look for easy attires these days. With something like a pre-pleated sari or a lehenga sari, one doesn’t need to be bothered about pleating a sari. You just have to slip in or tuck it at one place. That’s what is attracting a lot of girls these days.”
Twenty six-year-old Sonakshi Sharma seconded the idea.
She said, “Who has the time and patience to visit a parlour each time before going to a wedding just to get a sari draped? So these sort of attires work well. Just wear it as if you are wearing a skirt - and you look decked up without much ado!”
(Radhika Bhirani can be contacted at radhika.b@ians.in)
Sudhir Mishra extends helping hand to Shiney Ahuja
Director Sudhir Mishra is being a good friend to Shiney Ahuja. The filmmaker has cast Shiney Ahuja in his film, Hitman, is trying to put his character in such a light so as to not affect Shiney’s ongoing case or image. Shiney is out on bail after he was charged for allegedly raping his household help and arrested.
The story of Hitman is about an assassin who looks back on his life the day he thinks he is about to die. The hitman is repentant and the character has been moulded to match Shiney’s interests.
Sudhir states that Shiney hasn’t yet recovered from the trauma he underwent. As a friend, he feels he needs to make him feel comfortable and help him adjust back to his old self, something he’s having trouble going back to.
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Deepika replaces Asin
Deepika Padukone will now be doing the role in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s Khelenge Hum Jee Jaan Se that Asin turned down. She is excited about working in a period film with Ashutosh Gowarikar and has started preparing for her role.
Deepika was chosen after Ashutosh considered Sonam Kapoor and Genelia D’Souza for the role. Asin left the film citing date issues but in reality, she is getting choosy about films since her last film, London Dreams flopped.
The news about Deepika being a part of the film was confirmed by Ashutosh’s wife, Sunita.
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Power Show: Ajay Devgan Throws All The Best Success Party
Abhishek Bachchan walked in with Amar Singh instead of his Paa or his wife at Ajay Devgan’s first-ever bash for his friends in the industry on Thursday evening.
Bashful and cynical about glam-gatherings Ajay Devgan has always shunned attending parties and has never before thrown one.
But the new power-packed Devgan newly energized by the success of All The Best has resolved to let the world know he’s ready to conquer showbiz.
Devgan’s buddies Sanjay Dutt and Manyata were the first to arrive and also among the first to leave since Sanjay had an early-morning flight to catch to South Africa.
And then there was Fardeen and his wife Natasha. After his successful back surgery in New York, Fardeen Khan was back in Mumbai for his first public appearance to celebrate his first successful film in ages at Ajay Devgan’s first-ever party for his colleagues held at the Sahara Star hotel on Thursday night, a day after Devgan wrapped up Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti in Bhopal.
All the arrangements were taken care of by Ajay Devgan and his wife Kajol who were very prominently a part of the celebrations. The party went on till late. John Abraham and Bipasha showed up much later.
But as one of the guests later said, “This party was a show of strength for Ajay Devgan. For too long he has smirked and silently watched the Khans rule as the glamorous elements in Bollywood. With wife Kajol at his side Ajay wants to build Brand Devgan in a par with Saif-Kareena and Abhishek-Aishwarya. The party on Thursday night was the first step in that direction.”
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Rakeysh Mehras Mirza Sahiban Undergoes Change Of Cast
Rakeysh showed the new-cut version of Delhi 6 at the Venice Film Festival on September 9. “The kind of reception I got in a 1600-seater theatre was unexpected. It was meant to be only one screening. But they suddenly decided to screen the film on the closing day of the Festival which is very prestigious.”
Now Rakeysh intends to release the new version of Delhi 6(with Abhishek Bachchan’s character dying off) in India very shortly.
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Bollywood Entertainment Limited joining hands with Prasad Cine Labs
Bollywood Entertainment Limited, the UK based company is spreading its wings in India for their blu-ray operations. They are now entering into a tie up with one of Indian cinema’s oldest post production houses Prasad Cine Labs to promote blu-rays in India.
About this tie up Bollywood Entertainment Limited, company head, Mr. Prem Jolly told us, “We visited Prasad Cine Labs and were extremely impressed with their state of the art technology being used for film processing as well as authoring. Prasad Labs has been into films since the last fifty years. Their clients include all the Bollywood A-listers right from Yash Raj Films to UTV to Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies Entertainment. Their biggest labs are at Chennai and Mumbai while Kochi and Hyderabad house some of their other labs and Delhi has a sales office. Their main jobs are negative processing, printing and visual effects. Their visual effects department has successfully worked on films like Krrish and 1920. Their DI department where the colour correction of the entire film takes place for achieving desired results have got two scanners – Spirit and Auxberry where the negatives are loaded, the images are captured and finally transferred into the hard disk.”
“We saw their grading department where every reel is scrutinized along with the director of photography. The necessary last-minute changes are then made and the final print is confirmed. The final print is then brought to the Arri department where the final product is brought back to negatives. The entire procedure takes nothing less than 25 days and the prints are made within 8 hours. About 50 prints of each film are made in Prasad Labs in Mumbai and 70 in Chennai ” Mr. Jolly continues.
Mr. Jolly is confident that together they can bring about a complete change in how Indians watch movies at home.
Aamir Khans emergency
Aamir Khan had an embarrassing situation yesterday. He needed to use a bathroom urgently and had to rush past journalists who were waiting him at a press conference.
Aamir was stuck in the traffic for two and a half hours and was desperately looking for a bathroom. By the time he reached the five star hotel, he was almost pushing past the media and pleaded that he needed to use the bathroom.
We can’t help but feel a little bad for Aamir now.
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Teena singh turns Teena turner
A top director attached to one of the biggest production houses in the country mistook actress Teena Singh to be Tina Bhatia- or make that Twinkle Khanna. Teena who was the runner up in the Musafir item hunt a couple of years ago, had gone off to New Delhi to finish her MBA and then picked up a job in a bank akin to what Soha Ali Khan did.
If one notices, Teena looks like Twinkle in some of her pictures.
A closer look for the director revealed that it wasn’t Twinkle, but nevertheless he has promised to meet and audition Teena for his next project for the production house.
Teena Singh is currently busy with multiple fashion shows across the country.
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Jaya Bachchan has a role to play in Paa
Jaya Bachchan has been roped in to introduce the cast and crew in Amitabh Bachchan’s forthcoming film Paa, instead of the usual credits by director Balki.
The idea came to Balki while editing the film. He felt that Amitabh’s character in Paa, especially, should be introduced by someone. That’s when Jaya Bachchan was thought of. The sequence was shot around a week ago.
Balki confirmed the news and joked that he was just looking for an excuse to work with Jaya Bachchan. And he was glad the need to work with her cropped up.
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