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Monday, February 6, 2012

Sari Call or Sorry Call? Going GaGa !



WORLD'S COSTLIEST SARI-WHAT A PRICE WE PAY THEN ON!
Duryodhana orders Dushasana to disrobe Draupadi and he tries to disrobe Draupadi of her sari. Seeing her husbands unable to help her, Draupadi prays to Lord Krishna to protect her. As Dushasana unwraps layers and layers of her sari, her sari keeps getting extended! But not mutilated! 6yards to 9yards! 

Mumtaz drape…Tuck drape… Tamil pinkosu… Karnataka style… Hollywood style… Bollywood style and the list is endless 
WHAT A RACKET! WILLIAM SISTERS!
BLOUSELESS SARI?DISGUSTING!
TRYING A BHABHI RAMDEV LOOK? NOT WORKING!

It’s always been a flowing rectangle piece of sheer elegance .The sari era or the sorry era

Agreed nothing can beat the look of a sari, the most elegant and sensuous piece of clothing. The sari can rarely go wrong on any occasion but on a couple of recent occasions I am forced to say, it has gone HORRIBLY wrong!

A normal sari measures 6 yards in length, which is draped around waist in such a way that anyone who wears it looks so feminine, maybe even sexy, remember a Mandakini in Ram Teri Ganga Maili or for that matter a stalwart like Zeenat Aman in a Satyam Shivam Sundaram? They have branded sensuousness!

Has the sari made a comeback in a big way? Or has it gone horribly wrong? Many designers I’m told include a sari in their designer collection. Well, I would credit some of them with totally mutilating this lovely garment which is rightfully Indian!

Sari is the only outfit in which a woman is draped all over and still looks super sensuous and not vulgar at all. It reveals as much as it hides. A perfectly draped sari can make you look ravishing and out of the world but a clumsy draped one will make you look hideous and will bring down your personality. Experiments with the 6-yard rectangular unstitched piece of cloth, gives birth to a new style- Thanx to this mutilation, today, there are hundreds of styles.

I quote from an article in The Hindu by Prabalika Borah where she says “The sari was definitely given its due importance when 30 year old American businesswoman actor musician, Paris Hilton wore a red monotone sari for an event” My question do these women wearing our traditional outfits in the mutilated manner in which they do make us revere it or feel sorry? Sari in the limelight! When the William sisters or Oprah Winfrey wore it? Excuse me! Grotesque isn’t the word to describe how it was draped around a humongous structure! Some of the mutilations by the westerners have redefined and branded the word grotesque!

The Anna Kournikovas, the Gagas or the Elizabeth Hurleys insist on wearing scraps of cloth and changing the entire meaning of our lovely sari…Imagine a Mayawati in a mini skirt or short off shoulder gown! Maybe even Amma or Didi in a pair of hip hugging slacks! I shudder at the very thought of it! That’s the same sorry look these visitors have when they try and emulate our traditional garment!
CROSS DRESSING?
SOME PARTS ARE MISSING!

 Bad enough we have Baba Ramdev in a salwar kameez and Mr Singhvi in a one piece garment! Goodness help me!

The traditional outfit for Indian women has been a sari. It is never out of fashion and is always an evergreen dressing for Indian women. Today in the hectic lives of Indian working women, it has become an occasional dress, but the love for sari has not decreased at all. 
THE FUTURE OF OUR SARI ERA OR SORRY ERA?
In the lyrics of the song  Dev Anand sang in Guide I echo my feelings: 

“Oo Mere Humrahi 

Mere Bah Thamen Chalna 

Badle Duniya SARI 

Tum Na Badalna”

14 comments:

  1. Ha ha ha ha ha :D :D :D :D Ushy, this is the most hilarious piece of your writing :))) I have to say awesome choice of infographics there :) kudos on the pictures selection :)) Keep writing, it's always a pleasure to read your POV's :)

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    1. Hey Robby

      Thank you for all your kind motivating words!
      Good feedback helps me improve and keep penning my Pov's! Yeah borrowed some pictures from all the mails I keep getting!

      Lots of regards
      Ushy

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  2. One of the satirical work I have read of yours. It is seriously, the molestation of the most celebrated and ionic culture dress - SAREE. There is fine line difference is changing as per time and mutilating the fineness and respect of culture symbolism. As from the opposite view from opposite gender - though mini skirts r looked for, SAREE is always respected and its the BEAUTIFUL cultural symbolic for the finest beauty.

    SAREE is the best, and any best has to be respected n not mutilated to snatch out beauty from in it

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    1. Dear Jay

      Thank you again for sharing your views!

      There is fine line difference is changing as per time and mutilating the fineness and respect of culture symbolism.Exactly what I intended! In this so called garb of modernism our lovely sari has been torn to shreds!

      Do keep reading!

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  3. Fantastic...u have a mind blowing sense of humor.. wondering from where u found abhishek manu singhvi in this...too good G....:)

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    1. Hi Aniket

      Thanx a ton for sharing and enjoying the light read!
      The purpose was to show mutilation and weird dressing!.Got some pics via email so put it up!

      Keep coming back!
      Ushy

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  4. Sari has a strange capability to adapt, to whatever situation you suggest. But the blog is so stimulating, just one cannot stop reading again again

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    1. Hi KDP

      Lots of gratitude for the kind opinion and good words.
      Thank you for sharing.
      Do keep coming back

      Lots of regards

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  5. Sari can be very sexy... not by reducing the bottom, but what you wear on top. An elegant taste of sari can make you look gorgeous. The testimony to this fact can be found on Saturday nights in place where young people are in heavy numbers. The Sari has returned to fashion with a vengeance. Romeos behold

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    1. Hey Sourav

      Sure I agree but the context in this writing is totally different!...It's more about mutilation than seduction!

      Thanx a ton for sharing!

      Regards
      Ushy

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  6. I just hate anybody trying to even wear a "Sari" ...anybody except Indian-Woman. The way our Bharitiya Nari caries it, no body should even dare to wear."Sari tho Bharitya Nari ka prateek Hai"
    Mostly these so called Elite - society (page 3) types are there to hog the publicity who would encourage wearing sari to these foreigners & they themselves will be in western outfits ...that's the irony
    From : Des2videsh / R jain

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    1. Hi there

      Just so possessive eh? I kinda share the same feeling!
      Thanx for going through and sharing.

      Yeah The Page 3 is a concept I never understood nor choose to understand!

      Thanx again for the share

      Regards
      Ushy

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  7. couldnt agree more,Saree's sexiness lies in its elegance and grace that it commits to its wearer. And best part a midriff in saree is never vulgur , while same might look uncouth in a westernized dress. Thats the beauty and grace of Saree. Very Indian,very Beautiful!

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    1. Hey Akshay

      Glad you think so too!
      Where is Lalit? Wonder what he thinks!;-)

      Uncouth is the word...the clumsy walk.. the stance and of course the body structure... it looks real odd when anyone other than Indian drape this lovely garment!

      Thanx a ton for sharing and do keep coming back!

      Lots of love
      Ushy

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