This story is from September 24, 2009

No busts, only size zero!

Bollywood heroines have shed their curves to get bodies that meet international fashion standards much to the delight of our designers
No busts, only size zero!
Bollywood heroines have shed their curves to get bodies that meet international fashion standards much to the delight of our designers
And suddenly itseems like the top brass of Bollywood women do have large hearts because amajority of them have small everything. The 36-24-36 phenomenon has give way forthe 31-23-31 measurements.Kareena Kapoor-the reigning diva is a nearsize zero, Deepika Padukone has just knocked off five kilos, 22-year-old SonamKapoor is six feet tall and pencil thin, Priyanka Chopra claims she can eat ahorse, but it doesn���t show. Katrina Kaif is striving to lose her curves,Lara Dutta is showing fab-abs in a peach-coloured bikini in Blue (but has losther advantageous cleavage) and Kangna Ranaut is fashionably lean. A dressdesigner points out that unlike Rekha, Zeenat Aman and even Sridevi (whoseinitial claim to fame were her thunder thighs), the buxom beauty has gonemissing from the film-scene as of today.A dress man says that he was askedto sew costumes with buttock padding/breast padding for one of the top Bollywoodactresses, because in the South, they still like them curvaceous. However,Mumbai plays by a different rule.
Dress designer Shahid Aamir says,���Today���s girls are a dream to dress. They���ve got bodies ofinternational fashion standards and lend themselves naturally to the latestdesigns. What is more, none of them put on weight through the making of a film?So a designer doesn���t have to rush back and forth with alterations.���Shahid remembers that during Gupt, Shobhaa De had remarked that both he and hiscontemporary Manish Malhotra had not dressed Manisha Koirala and Kajolappropriately. Says Shahid, ���She felt that the clothes we put on thesegirls would ideally have suited women whose stomachs you can roll a rolling pinon. In other words ��� both Manisha and Kajol were plump. Now, whether it isKareena, Priyanka or Kangna, these girls have dreambodies.���Kareena says, ���My size zero is what got theattention of an international clothes manufacturer. I will be launching aclothes line soon. I know that youngsters think of me as a fashion icon becauseof my current size. And, though I���m occasionally tempted to put on acouple of kilos, I personally feel that for the kind of high-fashion wardrobe Iwore in Kambakkht Ishq, my current shape is right.��� They may not admit itopenly, but Kareena���s size is something most film actresses aspire for.The current lot is obsessed with being thin and they go to great lengths to staythat way.Sushmita Sen is one of the last big names who has amplemeasurements. Even Rakhi Sawant who had silicone implants put in, took out theartificial aids because she feared that silicone is harmful.Aheroine of the ���80s on looking at the photographs of today���sactresses says, ���They are lucky to be the way they are. When I auditionedfor a part with a hit filmmaker, the first remark he made was, ���Yourbreasts are too small. Please get yourself some cleavage before the nextaudition���.���Guess that is the one thing, girls aspiring to beBollywood heroines may never have to hear. They can be comfortable in theknowledge that Victoria Beckham has the body of a seven-year-old child. Andshe���s the new international fashion icon.Check out Kareena Kapoor's pics
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About the AuthorMeena Iyer

Meena Iyer is Editor, Bombay Times and a film critic for the Times of\nIndia. She's a veteran movie journalist - friend of the actors, confidante\nof the actresses, a champion of scoops on what's hot and what's not in\nBollywood. At home, she enjoys her cuppa Madras 'kapee' more than the\nEspresso in shopping malls or 'cutting chai' on film sets.

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