What Happens To The Outfits Bollywood Actors Wear After The Movie Is Over? Here’s The Answer!

Written by Rachana C  • 

Be it a Sabyasachi Mukherjee or a Tarun Tahiliani, be it the grandeur or the infusion of cultures that reflect in the clothes designed for Indian cinema, where is it all going? We’ve seen the Madhubala donning the archetypal Anarkali dress in Mughal-E-Azam and then the white knotted top with a tiny white skirt that Kajol pulled off with ease in DDLJ. All these costumes are etched in our memories and pop up in our minds at the slightest of provocations. But where are all these costumes going? Here’s where they go…

1. Buried Deep Inside

Yes, once the films are shot and screened, all the costumes are neatly packed in trunks. Designers say that they usually have nothing to do with where the clothes go once the film is screened. Their job ends quite literally with the movie. The costumes, quite often than not, remain with the production houses, kept inside labeled trunks. Also, unless it is a top-notch designer, the rights of the costumes are not even given to the designer.

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Imagine Anushka’s 17-kilo lehenga going inside a trunk after all the pain Manish Malhotra might have gone through to design it and aaalll the pain Anushka had gone through to wear it. Mind you, she was also wearing 7 kilos of jewelry along with that opulent outfit and, not to forget, she was also tolerating Ranbir’s zany tantrums. All this drama to finally reach the peti? I thought only humans reached the box after all the extravagance. Guess I was wrong!

2. Go With The Actors Or Designers… Sometimes!

Like I said, at times, actors take the dress along with them with the consent of the production house and the designer. If the costume has garnered the role quite a bit of fandom, actors prefer to keep the clothes with them. Occasionally, they also use their costumes for the film publicity, or they just keep them as souvenirs. Of course, some designers take the clothes with them and keep them as a keepsake.

3. Auctioned For A Cause

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Actors sometimes decide on auctioning the clothes and, at times, even props used in the films are auctioned. The money that comes from auctioning usually goes for a cause and is donated to a charitable trust. Madhuri’s skimpy yellow Dhak Dhak sari and Kareena’s fuschia pink Halkat Jawani sari are instances where the actors auctioned their outfits to raise funds. Of course, Pooja Bhatt went on to auction Sunny Leonne’s lingerie that this femme fatale had poured herself into in Jism 2.

4. Revamped And Reused

Revamping and reusing clothes is something that designers do with utmost care. You can’t just make Katrina wear a gown and make Deepika wear it in some other movie unless Sunny is in the forefront and it is just a bunch of men looking at the screen. Jokes apart, designers recycle clothes but in such a way that no one can make out. They mix and match the lehengas and dupattas to make all of them look completely new so that the internet wouldn’t be flooded with trolls and memes on the actors and designers who reused their outfits.

5. They Are Usually Rented

Though not transparent, it is quite evident that there are hierarchies in Bollywood. Maybe not for the highest tier actresses, but a lot of times, production houses take the costumes on rent and once the film is done, they are given back to the companies from where they had been hired. This doesn’t obviously hold true for the flamboyant top-rated actresses and designers of Bollywood. Theirs, I am sure, are going to be just locked in cases and forgotten till no one knows when.

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Strange, isn’t it? There are tons of Bollywood replica clothes that the masses go gaga over. We have had the Anarkalis, the Bunty Aur Bablis, and the Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani chiffon saris that haven’t died out of fashion, yet the originals are lurking somewhere in obscure corners. What do you guys think should be done to these costumes? Comment below and let me know.

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