Reshmi salwar
Kurta jaali ka
Roop saha nahi jaaye
Nakhre wali ka

Does this classic ditty from Naya Daur ring a bell?

If saris are sexy and skirts chic, the salwar-kameez and churidar are no less on the hot metre!

Depending on the cut, pattern and style, this outfit can look both sensuous and trendy.

A salwar-kameez also comes in handy any time our Hindi film heroine wants to look demure, elegant, classy or simple.

Look at Sadhana’s tight kurtas on churidars to Neelam’s dhoti-kurtas to Kareena Kapoor’s slit parallels -- you can also trust the churidar/salwar-kameez to bend the rules of fashion in Hindi cinema.

rediff.com takes a look at some current Hindi cinema beauties in this versatile dress.

In the picture: Urmila Matondkar and Isha Koppikar twirl around in 1940s-style salwar-kameezes in the period drama Pinjar.

Text: Sukanya Verma
Design: Uday Kuckian

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