All the well stylised films!
All Bollywood movies haven’t had great styling. And the one that have had great styling have always stood out.
On of the recent ones is the youth movie ‘Jaane Tu…yaa Jaane naa’
It looked as if no particular attention has been paid to the styling. And the whole thing just fit really well.
Genelia D Souza’s Aditi dressed like the tomboy she’s in the film in capris and jeans and Imran sported the jeans, tee and shirt on top look well.
Manjari unlike Genelia is girl like and sports dresses.
The Gujarati boy dresses a little over the top, the fat friend more casually and the cool girl has coloured hair.
Prateik Babbar who played the carefree brother dressed in painted t shirts and shorts.
They blend in properly and people can identify with the charcters.
In the past the same has happened with ‘Dil Chahta Hai’.
There was great hair styling and dress designing by the first time director Farhan Akhtar and his wife Adhuna.
Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna and Aamir Khan played rich brats who dressed accordingly in silver pants, shorts, cool drawstring pyjamas, and lovely hair cuts that suited their personalities.
People could easily identify themselves with characters like them.
Another movie with great styling was ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’. The characters were so distinct and they dressed according to their personalities-Kajol in her sports gear, Rani in those short little dresses and Shahrukh who wore very tight t-shirts even though he didn’t sport six packs then.
They were garish and different and still they stood out.
There was ‘Rang De De Basanti’ and ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar’ before that.
Even in the early 90s, ‘Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar’ got the whole styling thing right.
Pooja Bedi’s tried to recreate Marliyn Monroe’s flying frock act well.
Ayesha Jhulka in her loose pants, shirt, waistcoat and cap looked cute and adorable. So did Aamir Khan.
In RDB, Soha Ali Khan wore smart salwar kurtas and the Brit actress wore jeans with India batik or chikan work tops. Kunal Kapoor dressed-with the long kurtas and Sharman Joshi dressed like the brat he’s.
Except for pilot Madhavan who was a little older than the rest, all of them dressed casually.
This unlike movies like ‘Kabhi Khushi, Kabhi Gham’ etc where the whole styling thing went wrong! So styling in a movie is of utmost importance.
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Sneha Hazarika
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