As a starting point for my post, I am not picking on the accepted dissection of the LFW (Lakme fashion Week) or the WIFW (Wills India Fashion Week) which ostentatiously dictate the style trends of a newly emerging Indian fashion consciousness. Instead I am picking a more easily recognised parable, the most common denominator which influences the subcontinent in all things related to fashion and lifestyle - Bollywood.
As Wake Up Sid has been my most recent Bollywood fare, let me get started on that one. This movie had an interesting combination for me as far as fashion sensibilities go. On one hand you had Konkana Sen (a thinking actress with an average figure, I haven't come across KS in an outfit onscreen or offscreen which screams Haut Couture. Clearly, this is an actress not aiming for a size zero fig or being one of the top ten Bollywood fashionista). On the other hand, this movie was from the Dharma Production stable, arguably one of the most stylish production houses in the Indian movie scene with urban lifestlye as its forte. A marriage between these two dichotomous souls would be interesting.
As a movie meant for the urban masses, the styling for its two central character bring out facets of their individual styles. An immature spoilt brat living it up on his father's money and a 27 year old Bong who lands in Mumbai to eek her living and smell the first wiff of financial independence, the movie does have its fashion moments.
Ranbir Kapoor
Checkpoints
- Photography - snaps of his feet wearing socks
- Creativity - collage in his room, his quilt
- Brand conscious - Sony laptop
- Tee shirts- cartoon and animation centric (reflection of his own boyishness)
Konkana Sen
Checkpoints
- Living space - fairy lighted white bird cage, books placed all round the room
- Independence - yellow wall with white birds strung across a wire
- Individual style - multicoloured camel printed kurta, tan coloured hobo bag (a jhola would have made her too NGO intellectual)
- Structure - fitted evening dresses in silk, halter kurtis
The work space of Mumbai Beat also deserves a special mention - with its coloured furniture, graffiti walls and bright cushions, it did reflect the required "coolness" quotient of a magazine that is trying to capture the soul of Mumbai through its fresh writings and rich visual imagery.
The one thing that did disappoint me in this movie was the inadequate amount of hairstyle experiments. Being a KJo film, sufficient amount of thought must have gone into the "mane styling", but sadly, it wasn't enough. Especially if you juxtapose it to the freshness that Audhuna Akhtar gave to Dil Chahta hai with her radical hair styles for all the lead actors. Ah well greedy me!
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