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Marigold/A, 24 // bollywood/south asian stuff side blog. I follow back as 2-36am

[punjabidil]

Turn on: guys in kurta pajama

[fashionalistick]

TARUN TAHILIANI

2017 couture collection

INDIA COUTURE WEEK

[ekchai]

One of each, please

[ekchai]

A better title for K3G would've been 'Kabhi Filmi Kabhi Senti'

[aashiqaanah]

Harper’s Bazaar India: October 2015

[angel-cine]

Neel Kamal (1968)

[bollymusings]

[karolinaone]

[kajra-re]

Sridevi, English Vinglish, 2014.

[aestheticschaos]

Holi aesthetic

Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival, a spring festival celebrated in India and Nepal, also known as the “festival of colors” or the “festival of love”. The festival signifies the victory of good over evil, the arrival of spring, end of winter, and for many a festive day to meet others, play and laugh, forget and forgive, and repair broken relationships, and is also celebrated as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. This year (2017) it is celebrated on 13 March.

Holi celebrations start on the night before Holi with a Holika Dahan where people gather, do religious rituals in front of the bonfire, and pray that their internal evil be destroyed the way Holika, the sister of the demon king Hiranyakashipu, was killed in the fire. The next morning is celebrated as Rangwali Holi – a free-for-all carnival of colors, where people smear each other with colors and drench each other. Water guns and water-filled balloons are also used to play and color each other. Anyone and everyone is fair game, friend or stranger, rich or poor, man or woman, children and elders. The frolic and fight with colors occurs in the open streets, open parks, outside temples and buildings. Groups carry drums and other musical instruments, go from place to place, sing and dance. People visit family, friends and foes to throw colored powders on each other, laugh and gossip, then share Holi delicacies, food and drinks.  

[driflloon]

kiran kandola

[baawri]

when you’re out having a good time and suddenly remember how ugly you are

[indiandreamweddings]

[ekchai]

After I finish this application, I'm finally going to watch Happy Bhag Jayegi and I'm so excited

[milk-honey-tea]

Chhote Nawab (1961)

[thegentlemanscloset-blog]

When your normal court finery just won’t do. Mughal robes worn by Captain John Foote of the East India Company for his portrait in 1761. In the collection of the York Museums Trust. Portrait is by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

This is what they have to say about this ensemble:

Fine white muslin, embroidered with a regular pattern of floral motifs in blue-black and yellow silk, gold-coloured metal thread and gold-coloured plate (possibly silver-gilt). Neck and front edges, hem edge and wrists are all piped with thin yellow silk. Close-fitting bodice, the extended fronts wrapping right over left, kimono-style. High, v-shaped neckline, with a self-fabric collar band. The front edges of the bodice and the collar band are faced with plain white bias-cut muslin. Very long, narrow sleeves, set plainly onto the bodice. (This was meant to be worn pushed up so that the gathers show on the lower arm.) Very full, ankle-length skirt, set onto the bodice in tight gathers except across the left front, where it is set on plainly. The skirt is made from several full-width panels of fabric, with the addition of long narrow gores at the front edges. The side-seams are open for 18cm. from the hem. Both front and hem edges are faced with plain white bias-cut muslin.

[chokherbaly]

Kriti Sanon for Grazia India, January 2016

[zamaanapatsi-bollyfan]

Vyjayanthimala in “Aas Ka Panchhi” (1961)