In Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla
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Alia spent Diwali with her family wearing a chikankari kurta and lungi set from Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla. The lungi pairing was an interesting one. I don’t love it. I don’t hate it either.
You like?
P.S. Yes this was also styled by Rhea and it is never not amusing to me how lyrical Rhea gets with her description of a look.
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Alia Bhatt
Photo Credit: Instagram
even more than the lungi, i hate the flesh band between the innerwear and the bottoms. the colour combination is the only nice part of the outfit.
who is this styled by?
Rhea who else comes up with such diabolical looks. If she was a choreographer she would give Ajay Devgn and Sunny Deol hip-hop steps as she would mindlessly try to show off her ability to imagine but without any regard for the actor’s capability. Making Alia look like Asrani is what I would call this look…sigh!
Ajay Devgan and Sunny Deol doing hip-hop….thanks for providing the laughter 🙂
You might owe me a new laptop Etchem. LOLed so hard at the Asrani reference, I spilled my coffee on the keyboard! Comment of the day for me.
The pieces themselves are lovely but it all seems too staged and forced and doesn’t look natural. Trying too hard to be unique and trying to give off the air of being effortlessly cultured but it is not working.
Effortless, serious, cultured are words that will never be associated with Alia no matter who styles her with what resources. Her PR should stick to other projections like the K-Pop association, whmisy, manic pixie, gamine maybe (if they try really hard to insert some character).
Gravitas and sophistication is not Alia’s natural game. There is a frivolity/make-believe aspect to her persona. Like she is also playing Alia Bhatt. I won’t believe her if she read me the weather report lol. I think this is why most people accuse her of playing dress up and never owning a look, same as people said Gangu Bai looked like those Flipkart ads where kids play fake grown-ups.
whoa! what did Alia do to you to hate her so much!
I don’t think Hellenist’s comment shows their hate for Alia. To me, it reads as the fatigue one feels when somebody is shoved down our throats, literally everywhere, especially when their calibre isn’t proportionate to the PR-manufactured image.
To me, Alia appears the most real only when sitting before Karan Johar. It is also exactly where her real calibre comes through. Otherwise, most of her appearances are clearly templates (sometimes OTT) cut out for her as part of the PR
exercise – the templates her persona is unable to match with. It is this mismatch that makes her unconvincing.
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Is it just me who finds Alia Bhatt getting hyper- styled for Diwali functions in her house, temple visits etc exceedingly odd.
Insecure, actually, is what i find it.
Manic ambition is another word for it.
I checked out the BTS video Rhea has posted of Alia posing for this photoshoot. There is a manic-midget fomo energy to her. In interviews too. Makes me nervous and mistrustful.
I for one love it. I think Alia has this child like innocence about her that makes this look not over the top glamorous but down to earth. There is a lot of hate for Rhea on these pages, but lets give her some credit she takes a risk every single time and atleast has her own way of styling that is unique. She mixes a bit of androgynous with femininity.
Neck up she looks great, the hair and make up are perfect. Soft, dewy and beautiful. But gosh, these pieces together are atrocious. Hate the transparent sheer blouse for such a festivity, and the lungi/sraee bottom doesn’t gel. Again, a confused try hard look but the HMUA, colours and staged photos save it
I don’t think the fabrics gel well and the more I look at them, the more I find them disconnected. The gossamer-kind feel of the Chikankari kurti is attempted to be balanced by the colour instead of the choice of bottom. Besides, the proportions are absolutely off. The kurti is neither a short kurti, nor a long one – all because it needed to be teamed up with a “unique” piece like this lungi (as Rhea as this can get!).
This lungi doesn’t capture well from the sides, either. Come to think of it, this kurti wouldn’t appear “aesthetically designer-styled” when paired with denims or palazzos. Hence, this Anamika Khanna-esque skirt has been picked and is being sold as lungi.
Perhaps, Rhea tried to put a “painting-like” look which with the background, photography and filters can be created however, without that, the look lacks any impact. Short Chikan kurtis – even in fabrics like georgette pair so well with nicely-flared crushed skirts. That kind of an ensemble then combined with Alia’s makeup and hair would have looked dreamy. As is, it looks like another attempt at trying to be different.
She looks so sweet and beautiful hip up in the soft pink.. the soft green combination is lovely, but as an outfit together it looks like a towel wrap.. call it lungi or whatever, but it’s not a look that goes together.
So, we are calling these draped skirts lungis now?
Exactly what I was gonna write. What’s the difference??? Does calling it lungi make it exotic?
You have a point. I think of something that is cut and stitched to have a particular specific shape / drape / silhouette as a skirt, and a long piece of running cloth as a lungi. It could have a print / pattern / border etc., and it could be manipulated into different shapes thru’ folds and the use of pins, but essentially if it’s just a piece of running cloth with no ‘shape manipulation’ done to it thru’ cutting / stitching, then it’s a lungi. And by that definition, this is not a lungi, it’s a skirt. The properly stitched waist band with the pleats stitched under it is visible thru’ that see-thru’ top.
Pooja Bhatt wore a long kurta and a traditional checkered lungi in one of the songs of her movie .. that look didn’t have a stylist or a designer “lungi” .. but was effortless and impactfull..
Rhea as a stylist has a “go big or go home” approach without giving any thought to event appropriateness .
most of the current generation of actresses/actor have zero innate idea of style and just go with the hype the stylist gives them ..
honestly all the stylists need to do a better job
This should go in “what the hey” category
Rhea’s style sensibilities just do not go with Alia’s vibe and built. Alia was better dressed when she opted for easy-breezy fashion rather than these over-curated/statement looks. Kudos for trying something new, though.
This needed better innearwear.. i quite liked it..