Wet sari scene

Wet sari scene

Wet sari scenes are an on-screen cliché in Bollywood films, in which clothed actresses are depicted in wet saris that cling to their bodies. This functions as a proxy for nudity in mainstream Indian cinema, where nudity is taboo.

According to Pooja Makhijani, in an interview with "rediff.com":

:"Bollywood is wonderfully escapist. And completely comforting, as nothing really changes. Every blockbuster has at least one of the following: a wet sari scene, an over-the-top dance number with hundreds of mustachioed extras, an overbearing patriarch, pehla pyar (first love), and a wonderfully choreographed fight sequence in which the police show up the second the bad guys are down and out." [http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/feb/09inter1.htm]

See also

* Wetlook

External links

* http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-10a-04.asp
* http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/02hot.htm


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