Disha Patani has rekindled Bollywood's romance with the yellow sari during the Slow Motion track from Salman Khan's 'Bharat'. But it has left many asking "Where's the sari?"
In the video of the peppy quantity through Vishal and Shekhar featuring Nakash Aziz and Shreya Ghoshal, Disha is noticed matching her dance moves together with Salman.
But it is her sensual yellow sari with a 'pallu' twisted like a rope and thrown over her shoulder, that has caught attention. The track garnered over 24 million perspectives on YouTube in just 24 hours.
Award-winning textile dressmaker Gaurang Shah feels the essence of the sari has were given completely diluted.
"Well, everyone one has a choice to reinvent, but that doesn't mean you do away with fundamental essence that made sari a beautiful attire for generations. It is a celebration of our cultural legacy and heritage. A sari is a sari. You must drape it in a manner that retains its magnificent character," Shah said.
Designer Varija Bajaj known as it a poor rendition within the title of reinventing tactics to drape the six-yard marvel.
"Designers all across are working of reinventing the classic saris into sari gowns, lehenga saris, saris with jeans and some of them are extremely beautiful inventions," said Bajaj.
"There is a very thin line between a beautiful innovation and a tragic disaster when it comes to designers reinventing a sari. A poor rendition not only looks distasteful, but also kills the very essence of feminism in a sari, and I guess that forms the majority chunk of such reinventions," she added.
Ace dressmaker Ritu Kumar feels the stylist hasn't damaged "any norm" with the look.
"A sari is an unstitched garment and it is worn in different ways in different parts of the country. A sari can come in nine yards to three yards. There is no standardisation of a sari and there never has been," said Kumar, including that there is no "traditional way or a hard and fast rule to wear a sari".
"It happens to be the most provocative and versatile garment in the world. It is somebody's choice on how you want to wear it," she added.
Textile revivalist Madhu Jain feels there should be room for innovation, but the conventional means is here to stay.
"Saris have been reinvented for years now. However, while trends come and go, the traditional drapes will remain forever. And even there, each state has its own drape. Think of Gujarat's seedha pallu sari, Maharashtra's Nauvari drape, Bengal's Athpourey style, Andhra Pradesh's Kappulu drape, and so on," Jain said.
For many, Disha's avatar became out to be a nostalgic go back and forth to Raveena Tandon's iconic look from 1990's track 'Tip tip barsa paani' or Madhuri Dixit's 'Dhak dhak' look. And for some, it became a comic story with memes concerning the look going viral.
One person tweeted, "Look at that sari ka pallu covering Disha, (it) is (like) the syllabus I covered during the whole year."
Another posted, "This is the only sari which has naadaa instead of pallu."
There were memes showing Disha within the sari. One read, "If you ever feel useless, think of Disha's pallu in this song."
In one image, a blurb pointing at Disha's pallu reads, "Am I a joke to you?"
In the video of the peppy quantity through Vishal and Shekhar featuring Nakash Aziz and Shreya Ghoshal, Disha is noticed matching her dance moves together with Salman.
But it is her sensual yellow sari with a 'pallu' twisted like a rope and thrown over her shoulder, that has caught attention. The track garnered over 24 million perspectives on YouTube in just 24 hours.
Award-winning textile dressmaker Gaurang Shah feels the essence of the sari has were given completely diluted.
"Well, everyone one has a choice to reinvent, but that doesn't mean you do away with fundamental essence that made sari a beautiful attire for generations. It is a celebration of our cultural legacy and heritage. A sari is a sari. You must drape it in a manner that retains its magnificent character," Shah said.
Designer Varija Bajaj known as it a poor rendition within the title of reinventing tactics to drape the six-yard marvel.
"Designers all across are working of reinventing the classic saris into sari gowns, lehenga saris, saris with jeans and some of them are extremely beautiful inventions," said Bajaj.
"There is a very thin line between a beautiful innovation and a tragic disaster when it comes to designers reinventing a sari. A poor rendition not only looks distasteful, but also kills the very essence of feminism in a sari, and I guess that forms the majority chunk of such reinventions," she added.
Ace dressmaker Ritu Kumar feels the stylist hasn't damaged "any norm" with the look.
"A sari is an unstitched garment and it is worn in different ways in different parts of the country. A sari can come in nine yards to three yards. There is no standardisation of a sari and there never has been," said Kumar, including that there is no "traditional way or a hard and fast rule to wear a sari".
"It happens to be the most provocative and versatile garment in the world. It is somebody's choice on how you want to wear it," she added.
Textile revivalist Madhu Jain feels there should be room for innovation, but the conventional means is here to stay.
"Saris have been reinvented for years now. However, while trends come and go, the traditional drapes will remain forever. And even there, each state has its own drape. Think of Gujarat's seedha pallu sari, Maharashtra's Nauvari drape, Bengal's Athpourey style, Andhra Pradesh's Kappulu drape, and so on," Jain said.
For many, Disha's avatar became out to be a nostalgic go back and forth to Raveena Tandon's iconic look from 1990's track 'Tip tip barsa paani' or Madhuri Dixit's 'Dhak dhak' look. And for some, it became a comic story with memes concerning the look going viral.
One person tweeted, "Look at that sari ka pallu covering Disha, (it) is (like) the syllabus I covered during the whole year."
Look at that saree ka pallu masking disha, is the syllabus i lined all over entire yr ���� #DishaPatani https://t.co/nMwO0okvto
— Namrata Gupta (@Namrata1005) 1556260345000Another posted, "This is the only sari which has naadaa instead of pallu."
This is the only saree which has naadaa as a substitute of pallu... ������ #BharatTrailer #Bharat #SalmanKhan #DishaPatani https://t.co/FGzDvDCa4U
— Ayush Bhadauria (@dilfenkbhartiya) 1556213481000There were memes showing Disha within the sari. One read, "If you ever feel useless, think of Disha's pallu in this song."
In one image, a blurb pointing at Disha's pallu reads, "Am I a joke to you?"
Disha's 'Slow Mo' sari look sparks debate
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