Wet sari scenes are an on-screen cliché in Bollywood films, in which clothed actresses are depicted in wet saris that cling to their bodies. This functions as a proxy for nudity in mainstream Indian cinema, where nudity is taboo.

According to Pooja Makhijani, in an interview with rediff.com:

"Bollywood is wonderfully escapist. And completely comforting, as nothing really changes. Every blockbuster has at least one of the following: a wet sari scene, an over-the-top dance number with hundreds of mustachioed extras, an overbearing patriarch, pehla pyar (first love), and a wonderfully choreographed fight sequence in which the police show up the second the bad guys are down and out."

See also

• Wetlook

External links

• http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/12-10a-04.asp
• http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/aug/02hot.htm