Retro Parade In Bollywood

Bollywood industry seems to be smitten by the 70’s era. The now-a-days dressing style and make up trends especially the eye make up, the music and yes! Also the Lambretta scooty bring back the memories of the golden era.

From ad gurus to fashion designers and musicians, everyone seem to be adopting the retro trend. This trend is the symbol of the rebellious youth spirit of the 70’s.

Lately Ekta Kapoor’s film ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai’ has become the talk of the town because of its story which is based on the underworld dons and mainly because of the costumes. The stars of this film will be seen in a complete 70’s look especially Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai. The make up artists of this film have worked a lot on Kangana Ranaut’s looks which are inspired by yesteryear actress Madhubala’s looks. It seems an amount of about 20 lakhs is only spent on the wigs which will be used for Kangana’s make over. Even Prachi Desai’s looks are inspired by Dimple Kapadia’s looks in Bobby.

Vipul Shah’s ‘Action Replay’ starring Akshay Kumar and Bachchan Bahu Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has also been in news as Aishwarya and Akshay are giving a tribute to the hit jodi’s of the 70’s

Evergreen actor and director Dev Anand is also planning to remake ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ and Rohan Sippy is planning to remix the song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ in his next film starring Abhishek Bachchan.

Even Kainaat Arora does a Dimple Kapadia in a song from the film ‘Khatta Meetha’. Her attire is similar to Dimple Kapadia’s attire in the song ‘Jhooth bole kawa kate’ from the film Bobby. Madhur Bhandarkar film ‘Heroine’ starring Kareena Kapoor also will be based on the actresses of the 60’s and 70’s

Earlier also some movies have adopted the retro style. Ekta Kapoor’s first film ‘Kucch Toh Hai’ also had a song in which Esha Deol and Tusshar Kapoor were seen in a retro style attire. Farah Khan’s film ‘Om Shanti Om’ starring Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone had completely recreated the 70’s magic on screen. The song ‘Hum hain rahi pyaar ke phir milenge chalte chalte’ from the film ‘Rab ne banadi jodi’ also had the same retro flavor to it.

Even the remix of the song ‘Chod do aanchal’ by Bombay Vikings showed the 70’s style of fashion and romance. And the list will go on and on.

The styles, music, charm of that era has continued to be the part of the trend of every generation. This shows that the retro trend can never die as it gets recreated in some or the other manner. But does this mean that bollywood has run out of ideas or this is just another way of connecting with the audience.