Salman Style Is Simple !!!

Lace shirts, bandhini prints, cycling shorts, tank tops, skin-fitting vests, tight-Ts, jewellery, cargo pants, three-quarter trousers, cut offs in fact anything that would accentuate for better display of his bulges, of the right kind of course — is what comes to mind when the name Salman Khan is mentioned
It’s the bulges that got everyone confused.

Indeed, no one thought “bodybuilder” Khan would get his gender so badly mixed up. Like, in his newest outing at the box office, Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, Sallu wore really teeny weeny lungis — crafted in bright blues, reds and pinks with yellow flowers, all combined with chunky silver jewellery. Predictably, the Khan got the audience shook up about Indian sensibilities, not that that shook him up any.Khan’s early flirtation with fashion came with his years as a model. Known as former Miss India Sangeeta Bijlani’s boyfriend, the macho stud was roped in to pose for a suiting ad opposite the buxom lovely.Funnily enough, Khan’s early images in Bollywood were spun by Anna Singh, the woman who’s clothed Bollywood’s admitted best dresser, Jackie Shroff, for the past 16 years.

Indeed, it was Singh who gave Khan the item of clothing he’s perhaps best remembered for — the Friend cap for the film that shot him to stardom, Maine Pyar Kiya. The cap, of course, went on to become a rage all over India, with everyone from school children in sleepy village towns to college kids in posh urban colleges buying and wearing one. And ‘Friend’ went on to become a Hinglish euphemism for love and all things mushy.That film also marked the first time anyone can remember Khan taking his shirt off on screen, when, at the end of a long hard day at the quarry, where he earns his keep his girlfriend’s love, he storms into the house in search of his love.

Only, in that scene, although his muscles were up on display, rough and ready, he was wearing a singlet underneath his shirt.Indeed, it took until five years later and the film Baaghi opposite southern bombshell Nagma, when Khan took his shirt off in a desperate bid to boost box office performance. The cash registers, however, remained quiet. It took the Barjatyas to make him hit big time again, variously, in white and greeen, with Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, the protracted wedding video during which Khan only took his shirt off only once.

There followed a glimpse of his undies, (white, Joe Boxer, peeking out above the waistband of his jeans), earrings, more bare-bodied braggadocio and so on — until, with Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega, he decided to go traditional and cover up at the same time.Ergo, the lungis and the chi-chi plastic glasses.And what drives him so? Perhaps, like one filmi hack put it, Khan chooses muscled magnificence to make up for his height — lower than that of most of his heroines.

Die-hard fans, of course, will swear by his beautifully-tailored black, beige or grey jackets, or the casual white-shirt-and-blue-jeans look, sort of what he wore in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam.Or maybe bright bandhni shirts (another Jackie Shroff inspiration), tailored close to his body, but not really body-hugging. Leave something to the imagination, boyo, that way we can take you home to Momma.And yeah, leave off the dhotis and chunky jewellery. Let’s keep the kinks in the closet, shall we?Passionate about his ever-increasing wardrobe, Sallu enumerates a few things from his closet that he wouldn’t want to part with.

Off the camera, on one of those lazy days, what you will see him most often in “is my white shirts and blue jeans. That will never be ‘out’ for me,”he insists.According to him a pair of denims with a crisp, white shirt or a T is sexy. Simply classic, it’s a formula that’s worked for everyone from Tina Turner to Bill Clinton. As far as his denims are concerned, the cuts vary. His tight fitting 501s are something that “I cannot do without.” And keeping true to his ishtyle — when it come to shorts, it is cycling shorts for him. When he’s not taking off his shirt on screen, he pours himself into see-through shirts of the Bangkok variety and second-skin Ts.What Salman is most happy in, though, are casuals.He feels restricted in formal wear, not surprising given that all those layers, well, hide his assets. He may have danced his way in Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and umpteen films in chudidar kurtas, but off screen, he hates wearing them.

“Ganjis (vests), rubber chappals and torn jeans will do it for me anytime,” he shrugs. The killer Khan is most possessive about his spectacles and shades. “Simplicity,” smiles Salman, “is the answer to being .