Former Miss India Tanushree Dutta has never stopped from flaunting her rights curves. And whenever this Bong beauty has got the opportunity she has done it in the right way.
Star kid Shruti Hassan, who made her Bollywood debut in Luck earlier this year, also joined the bikini bandwgon. Shruti, the daughter of superstar Kamal Hassan, said when her director Soham Shah narrated the script to her the bikini wasn't a big deal.The young actress said she had to work-out to get a toned body. Plus, she worked harder to maintain it.
Shilpa Shetty also wore a bikini for a song sequence in last year's hit Dostana.
Earlier, Bollywood beauties like Sharmila Tagore, Zeenat Aman and Parveen Babi dared to wear the two-piece on screen, but actresses after them shied away from the swimsuit. The two-piece beach wear, which turns 63 this year, was invented by Jacques Heim and Louis Reard in 1946. The designer duo named it after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of the atomic bomb testing.
Priyanka Kothari who is known as a Ram Gopal Varma discovery has always prefered to flaunt her size zero in bikini wear.
Priyanka, who flaunted her body in skimpy outfits in Fashion and cleavage-baring Dostana, says films with skin show are doing well."Where there's a demand, there's a supply. If people didn't watch such films, we would have stopped making them. Besides, I do it only if my character in a film justifies it," Priyanka said. Miguel said about Priyanka, "Priyanka too has the oomph factor. Even though she is not that tall, the way she looks and carries her swimsuit is commendable. You just can't take your eyes off her."
As far as Bollywood is concerned, the bikini has surely come of age over the years with actresses opening up to the idea of wearing sexy swimsuits on screen.In 1958, Nutan took the Hindi film industry by storm when she wore the swimming costume in Dilli Ka Thug. Her colleagues like Saira Banu and Vyjayanthimala too scorched the silver screen when they slipped into the costume for April Fool and Sangam respectively.
Delhi girl Neha Dhupia donned a bikini in the latest issue of the men’s magazine, The Man
Now, it is no more taboo and actresses like Mugdha Godse or Neha Dhupia have carried off tiny two-pieces with confidence.
Actress Minissha Lamba, who abandoned her plain Jane act with a white bikini in Kidnap, says skin show in Bollywood has now assumed a larger meaning than just its literal sense. "I wouldn't call it skin show. For me, it means women exercising their right to be beautiful ", says Minissha. We have fashion designers all over the world and now in India, who are catering to women mainly to make them look beautiful and feel beautiful. And now, clothes are a very important extension to that, " added the actress.
Mallika Sherawat has never followed any rules rather made new ones and she is the leader of this new lot.
Former Miss Universe and Bollywood beauty Lara Dutta sported bikinis in underwater thriller Blue.
Kim Sharma, who has always worn bold clothes, desires to wear the smallest bikini ever.
Not everyone can carry off a bikini well. In Bollywood, Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu and Priyanka Chopra are the stars who have done it with panache thanks to their attitude and confidence, say fashion experts. Kareena wore a lemon bikini for Tashan then slipped into a black one for Kambakkht Ishq and became the talk of the town for her size zero.
Hema Malini's elder daughter Esha Deol also flaunted her toned body in Dhoom.
Celina Jaitley says she agreed to pose in a two-piece bikini for a popular film glossy because she was inspired by international supermodel Kate Moss. "I had seen this fabulous swimwear shoot of one of my favourite models, Kate Moss. I instantly knew that I had to do something on the same lines. I was really inspired and wanted to do a shoot which is quite beautiful and of course very sensuous," Celina said. This isn't the first time that the name Kate Moss has occurred in reference to Celina. During her modelling days, quite a few members from the industry used to address her as The Indian Kate Moss. Asked if she had got the desired impact, Celina said, "Well, the way response has been so far, I guess I have. My intention was to arouse the sensuousness with beauty and dignity and not vulgarity and I have pretty much managed to achieve that."
According to Mumbai-based celebrity designer Gavin Miguel, Bipasha rocked the big screen when she wore a bikini in Dhoom 2. "Bipasha really took the audience by surprise with her bikini act in the movie. She looked hot, sexy and very confident. The best part about her is that she has got a well-proportioned body and so a two-piece looks good on her," said Miguel. Bips sizzled in bikinis in the superhit film Race, and donned some revealing outfits in Bachna Ae Haseeno.
Amisha Patel wore a yellow bikini for her underwater act in Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic.
