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**induffike** · 12-06-2005, 12:17 PM

Actually it seems far from a fair (leave alone good) job to me afa the current actresses (Bollywood as well as regional) r concerned.......let's face it, most of the fashion designed for them seems to be more a means of exposing their skin/flesh wherever/however possible! These 'designers' hav successfully given even Sarees a vamp-ish look.......and yea, they seem to've asexually created a new cross-breed of Indians w/ brown (& in sum cases even blond!) hair, among actors as well as actresses!

Yes... in many of the dances, there is a lot of naval exposure. This is because many of the dance moves are not authentic Indian, but based on the US "hip-hop." The only difference between the two, really, besides language of course, is that in "hip-hop" there is bottom (the female dancers are always wearing shorts) and top exposure, whereas in Indian dances, the exposure tends to be limited to the naval. That makes sense if you consider that sari blouses (what the Indian actresses are always wearing) would look very funny with what we in the US call short shorts. I can understand what you mean when you say the amount of skin/flesh exposure may be too much. On the other hand, I am not sure I could sit through a whole film in which the actresses dance in full sari. Hopefully we have gone beyond sari and swing set. Having them dress in American style clothes is not a good solution either, because then the dance would lose its Indian touch. So I think the present scenario is a fair compromise.

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induffike Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	Actually it seems far from a fair (leave alone good) job to me afa the current actresses (Bollywood as well as regional) r concerned.......let's face it, most of the fashion designed for them seems to be more a means of exposing their skin/flesh wherever/however possible! These 'designers' hav successfully given even Sarees a vamp-ish look.......and yea, they seem to've asexually created a new cross-breed of Indians w/ brown (& in sum cases even blond!) hair, among actors as well as actresses! Yes... in many of the dances, there is a lot of naval exposure. This is because many of the dance moves are not authentic Indian, but based on the US "hip-hop." The only difference between the two, really, besides language of course, is that in "hip-hop" there is bottom (the female dancers are always wearing shorts) and top exposure, whereas in Indian dances, the exposure tends to be limited to the naval. That makes sense if you consider that sari blouses (what the Indian actresses are always wearing) would look very funny with what we in the US call short shorts. I can understand what you mean when you say the amount of skin/flesh exposure may be too much. On the other hand, I am not sure I could sit through a whole film in which the actresses dance in full sari. Hopefully we have gone beyond sari and swing set. Having them dress in American style clothes is not a good solution either, because then the dance would lose its Indian touch. So I think the present scenario is a fair compromise.
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