Arjun Rampal
Image: Arjun Rampal in D-DayIn one of his best performances till date, Arjun Rampal looks and acts his part perfectly in D-Day.
Nawazuddin Siddique
Image: Nawazuddin Siddique in Gangs Of WasseypurNawazuddin Siddhique looks comfortable in his printed lungi, as he takes a break in Anurag Kashyap's bloody film, Gangs Of Wasseypur.
Akshay Kumar
Image: Akshay Kumar in Bhool BhulaiyaAs a clairvoyant mystic who tries to solve spooky issues troubling his friend's household in Bhool Bhulaiya, Akki gives the traditional a uber chic twist.
Aamir Khan
Image: Aamir Khan in MelaAamir Khan pays tribute to Clint Eastwood and Rajinikanth in one breath with his bizarre mishmash of east-meets-west as a nautanki actor in Dharmesh Darshan's Caravan rip-off.
Salman Khan
Image: Salman Khan in Har Dil Jo Pyaar KaregaBollywood's effortless clothes horse can make a statement even in a pair of torn shorts.
The Shirtless Khan flaunts buff in a sarong-styled lungi for the title song of Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega.
Sunny Deol
Image: Sunny Deol and Poonam Dhillon in Sohni MahiwalThe Jat hunk wears his lungi in the Punjabi tradition to look his role of Mahiwal in the doomed love story co-starring Poonam Dhillon.
Anil Kapoor
Image: Anil Kapoor in HifazatExaggerating cultural stereotypes is Bollywood's favourite past time.
Ad that's exactly what Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit engage in after chomping off a bite of drugged 'batata vada' in this silly but comical song from the lesser-known Hifazat.
Amitabh Bachchan
Image: Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in Desh PremeeA far cry from the sophisticated poet of Kabhi Kabhie, AB goes all out in a striped tee and popular lungi pattern to appease Hema Malini in Manmohan Desai's jingoistic social, Desh Premee.
Rakesh Bedi
Image: Farookh Shaikh, Ravi Baswani and Rakesh Bedi in Chashme BuddoorCasual wear at home differs from person to person.
In Chashme Buddoor, the three friends and roomies played by Farookh Shaikh, Ravi Baswani and Rakesh Bedi alternate between kurta pajamas, shorts and tees or the unstitched lungi when idling about at home.
Mithun Chakraborty
Image: The Agneepath posterMithun Chakraborty's breathless chatting and ridiculous costume lampooning the humble lungi as Krishnan Iyer M.A. Nariyalpaniwala, lends Mukul Anand's bloody drama some much-needed respite.
Rishi Kapoor
Image: Rishi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan in Amar Akbar AnthonyRishi Kapoor plays the romantic Akbar Illahabadi to the T with his colourful wardrobe of colourful lungis and flamboyant shirts in one of Bollywood's most loved multistarrers of all time.
Sanjeev Kumar
Image: Jaya Bachchan and Sanjeev Kumar in AnamikaSanjeev Kumar not only looks comfortable in the lungi but stylish too. The brilliant actor wears a visibly trendy and colourful range in the romance mystery, Anamika.
Mehmood
Image: Dhumal and Mehmood in GumnaamNeedless to say no mention of lungi is complete without Mehmood and his iconic costume as the Hyderabadi-accent, lungi-swaying Butler in Gumnaam, which has been parodied by many actors since.
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