You know how on Holi it doesn't really matter what you wear because we're going to end up multi-coloured in moments anyway? Here are some stars who mistakenly thought it was Holi on-screen as well, wearing costumes the strangeness of which they thought nobody would notice because they came pre-loaded with colour so garish it was hard to look at them on-screen.
We begin with Amitabh Bachchan's look in Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. If there is one thing that this ensemble, worn while dancing on the streets of London with what seems to be a two-fret board guitar (which you can't seem to play), proves it is this - there is nothing that Big B will not do for Junior B, at least on-screen.
Abhishek Bachchan's Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, in which half the film is told in imaginative backstories, was inexplicable at many levels - not least of which was his father's puzzling get up.
Close on his heels are Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in their Action Replayy
Quite as bad was Vidya Balan in GhanchakkarThe Dirty PictureKahaaniGhanchakkar
And then there's Ranveer Singh from Ram-Leela Ram-Leelarang-birangi
But we won't be that lenient with Ranbir Kapoor in BesharamRockstarBarfiBesharam
Tacky, o tacky, o tacky tacky tacky re!Himmatwala
All of the above are easily outdone by the entire saas-bahubahussaasu mabetibaa
Ok, we admit that most of the buzz around Aiyyaa
Dare we say Sridevi? Before you start beating us up, let us explain that we are not talking of the gorgeous Sridevi from the 2000s. We are talking of the Sridevi from the '80s and '90s whose shine was marginally tarnished by whatever over-the-top costume her 'stylist' had told her it would be a good idea to wear in films like HimmatwalaChalbaaz
But there's just one undisputed king of Holi-readyiness. Govinda, in reel and real life, believed in being charitable to the entire cloth dying industry which has grown multiple folds since his fans started emulating him. He wore multi-colored shirts, pants, dhotis, shorts, caps, blazers, kurtas, and even scarfs. He believed that Holi lasts throughout the year and kept the spirit of the festival alive in his films. He seems to have taken a break from acting but in reality he is just waiting for a new colour to be invented for his next costume because, frankly, he has worn them all.
