Forthcoming Fug

Fug we can all look forward to...

From God Tussi Great Ho (August, 2008):

From Bachna ae Haseeno (August, 2008):

From C Kkompany* (August, 2008):

*Ekta Kapoor really needs to learn how to spell.

From Money Hain to Honey Hain (July, 2008):

¡Mas Mimoh!

From Aspi, a little taste of the various Mimohs on display in Jimmy.





More here, if you can bear it.

the gospel of Mimoh

Beth, the gospel of Mimoh must be spread far and wide.

So spake Aspi, and so it shall be. Mimoh Chakraborty was previously fugged here, and now it's time to check out Jimmy. Based on this video alone, someone pirated the best-left-were-they-were Fanaa scarves and some Salaam-Namaste flap-arms-while-standing-in-the-water dance moves. When various contributors to this blog first discovered this clip, Filmi Holic wondered if Mimoh reminded anyone else of Princess Stephanie of Monaco (yes, a little bit) (from Grace Kelly to Disco Dancer in three easy steps!). Based on Aspi's post on the whole movie, Jimmy looks horrible in countless more ways, so of course I think we should all watch it immediately. Or at least stay tuned for Aspi to send some more screen caps our way for more fugging.

Christmas is coming early this year

Babita has some seriously fab fashions in 1968's Haseena Maan Jayegi. However the turquoise...I'm sorry, I can't come up with any better term for it, ELF outfit in which she frolics around the trees with Shashi Kapoor is not one of them. Check out the boots!

And the hat! It's coordinated head to toe fug!

I love how she's looking straight at the camera, all but giving the audience a wink of conspiratorial confidence, just like a perfume ad: "He knows he can't resist you...but only we girls know it's really your Santa suit that drives the boys wild."

On a side note, I find the following outfit totally fun rather than fugly, but I just had to put it in because it eerily presaged something one of our readers called Karisma on last year. Like mother

like daughter!

Karzzzz...

He's ditched the baseball cap, but it's not an improvement. Here are stills from Himesh Reshammiya's forthcoming film, Karzzzz:

(This final still is apparently from an item number titled, ‘Tandoori Nights’. )

Bollywood's best and worst fellas

Here's the partner to Joules's earlier post on the apparel of the ladies. So funny. And I'm glad to know some people agree with me about how much Ranbir Kapoor looks like his mom.

WITWHT Mahima Chaudhry?

I'm starting a new feature around here - "What In The World Happened To." Today's Bollywood star - Mahima Chaudhry.

For Fug, fast forward to 2:05 and 3:51:

Dhoom Dadakka: pants optional?

To be be fair, the first one isn't so bad, and the tall Disco Dancer-esque boots do offer a fair amount of material. But in motion...

Images from the movie's official blog.

This may say more about me than it does about the movie, but I only recognize about half the names in the cast, namely Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey, Gulshan Grover, Rakhi Sawant, Razzak Khan, and Satish Shah. Those first three are fine, but the last three do not exactly inspire confidence. Ugh.

Bollywood's best and worst divas

...according to guest author Joules over at Aspi's Drift. Personally, I didn't agree with all the choices, as is the way with subjective things like fashion, but it was still a really fun read with some great zings and even better photographic proof. Good, good times.

The Future of Fug

Reader Elizabeth M. send us these stills from Love Story 2050.

We really don't know where to begin...

Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

I want to like this movie, if only based on the presence of two of my favorite stars. But behold....


I can't quite put my finger on why I hate Rani's ensemble. Maybe it's just overkill: vest and ruffly shirt and big belt and flouncy skirt and embroidered jacket. Or maybe it's the ho-down/Santa Fe hippie-dippie sort of look that is so out of synch with Saif's metro-fabulous suits. I realize she's out of this world or whatever, but I think there would have been prettier ways to set her off via clothing. Let's hope there are better options elsewhere in the film.

Tell you what, though: I would have loved that skirt and belt for my 7th grade spring dance in 1987.

You can't really see it in the top photo, but if you go to the official site, it looks she's making the face that one plasters on in moments of extreme social duress, trying to look happy but saying through clenched teeth "Saif, I thought we agreed: no more Yash Raj films with saccharine children!" Way more troubling than the clothes.

If you want more, check out Indie Quill's take on Amisha's outfit.

suspendering disbelief

From its website, I gather the bound-to-be-awesome Tashan has some funny costuming on purpose. Characters in disguise. I dig.

However (and you knew that was coming), what's with Bebo's diagonal suspenders? All the better to hold up her low-rise Daisy Dukes? Isn't low-slung the point?

Innovative!

Alternate title, inspired by the LOLese style of the Tashan website:
Suspenderz: ur doin it wrong.

Do you wanna fedora?

That the clothes of Partner will end up on this site will come as no surprise, I'm sure. As much as I disliked that all of Salman's shirts had words on them, things really could have been much worse, given that Salman was supposed to be hip and sauve, Govinda a dork, Lara a bit rough and tumble, and Katrina proper.

There's only one chunk of costuming that I found fug-worthy (plus one strange piece, and I'll get to that in a sec). The look that I most disliked, featured in some of the movie's publicity (see below), was mostly confined to the song "You're My Love."

Check it: Salman has a rapper with giant brass knuckles painted on his pants, they stuck Govinda in a scaled-down version (who thinks this photo was photoshopped? He looks the same size as [but less buff than] Salman), and Lara is wearing shiny roman blinds as pants. Everything reeks of a dark corner of Kevin Federline's closet.

(Pictures courtesy of the official site.)

Here's the thing: I assume that these clothes are supposed to be ridiculous. So bravo, costume designers. But I maintain that I can appreciate your aesthetic and its effects - maybe even admire them in a grudging tip of the hat, "touché" sort of way - without actually liking them. So I draw that distinction and throw some more photos into the mix. The guy in the brown, orange, and white ski vest with a white bandanna looped through his jeans particularly caught my attention.


Lara also has a furry white fedora, but I forgot to get a picture.

The other standout was this itty-bitty vest thing. Lara Dutta has never struck me one way or the other in movies, but here I found her quite lovely except when she was stuck in pint-sized bleachy denim.



Update: Ohhhhh! Now I get it - they're trying to be Hard Kaur!

She's even got a vest like Lara's.

the wristband makes the man

(An email submission from our friends at Post-Punk Cinema Club. Even the P-PCC's and my favorite Shashi Kapoor is not bedecked beyond reproach all the time - I guess being married to a costume designer isn't protection enough.)

Shashi reached all-time lows in Chor Sipahee (1977) (as well as all-time highs, it must be said, it was a very variable Shashi).

First, there was THIS. Agrghhh.


Which naturally provoked this reaction from Vinod.


This one's worse.


And here it just looks like they're both going to laugh.

Not. Remotely. Fugly.

So a regular reader of this blog told me yesterday that she was sad that we had so reduced our postings; the word "pitiful" was used. So today I went looking online for some new, egregious fugliness, and was brought almost to tears by one of the most bee-yoo-ti-ful things I have ever seen. (I should mention I have been sadly disconnected from Bollywood news of late, so this may be common knowledge to everyone else.)

THIS should serve as the example of perfection against which all fugliness is condemned. The upcoming film is Jodhaa Akbar, and it totally feeds my addiction for period costume.

I always prefer when Ms. Rai-Bachchan wears as little makeup as possible.
It makes her look like a Serious Actress.

Tears came to my eyes on seeing this one of Hrithik...

Movie Website: http://www.jodhaaakbar.com/. Has loads of yummy pictures and posters!

Happy blue year!

(Thanks to Bollywhat forums for the picture.)

OMG. WTF, AB2.0?

Abhi baby, you may be BFug's favorite, the one for whom our collective heart goes pitter-patter, but if SRK can't get away with smudged, oddly-sleeved, serially-ripped t-shirts, then neither can you.

(Photo from Filmikhabar, apparently originally from desifans.com. Thanks to filmigeek for the find!)

We'll just see about that.

Reuters has a story on Bollywood fashion.

Bollywood fashion has become a lot less garish and more sophisticated these days, but designers say it still lacks its own unique style.... Outrageous outfits are out....

Oh ye of little faith.

Rediff.com is asking readers: "Who's the worst-dressed actress in Bollywood?"

Currently, Mallika Sherawat has taken 27% of the vote. B-Fugly favorite Amisha Patel is not far behind with 19% of the vote. TMBWITW is at 13%.

Thoughts?

the 80s were kind to no one