Why Sonakshi Sinha’s fashion experiment failed in IIFA 2017?

At the Indian International Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2017 held in New York recently all the top Bollywood actors and actresses were in attendance. As is the case with events of such importance they were all there in their best looks, showing off their best dresses created by the top designers in India. The main aim was to walk the green carpet with plenty of style and class. The Instagram accounts and feeds of these stars too were filled with their photographs as well as selfies taken with adoring fans who had lined up the streets waiting to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars. The weekend itself was a dazzling affair that had all the celebs from the tinsel town doing their very best to shine at the Big Apple. Most of the celebrities put their best foot forward and they went for stylish appearances in order to woo their fans. 

   

Categories of dressing

As may be expected in these cases people had a field day classifying these celebrities into best dressed and worst dressed categories. Sonakshi Sinha was one person who made the worst dressed list of so many who saw the event either live or on TV or in any other streaming service. All the other lady actresses decided to wear party dresses and gowns that were evidently expensive but Sinha decided to wear a white saree that had a multi coloured pallu. The blouse was strapless as well. While the saree did show off her wonderful figure it brought her some not so pleasant comments on social media sites such as Twitter. At the same time it must also be said that she did make heads turn on the green carpet and if that was what she wanted to achieve then she was successful in that.

Sonakshi Sinha criticised badly for her fashion experiment on IIFA 2017

Colouring the town blond

In what can be called a brave decision – given the frequency with which she is targeted by the fashion police – Sinha dyed her hair blonde as well. Coupled with her saree this made fans rather hard to recognize her the very first time they saw her on the green carpet. As seems to have become the norm these days, Sinha was trolled on Twitter for her fashion choices. Some people have taken the words freedom of expression really literally and Sinha became the latest target of their attention.

Compliments that came her way

At the very least, people called her the worst dressed actress at IIFA 2017. Her look was also equated to that of an Australian Macaw. One gentleman compared her saree to an unfinished canvas of painting that had been made by a squirrel that had supposedly snorted coke and yet another put up a picture of Sinha and Jwala Gutta, who incidentally has almost the same hairdo in the photo as Sinha, and called them “Sisters of Ramesh and Suresh”. At any rate people did not like her look and termed it horrifying as well.

Was it part of a shooting?

Amidst all the criticism and choice words coming her way for her unique look there were at least two people who tried to retrieve the situation somewhat by stating that this was all part of a shooting being done by Sinha. Apparently her co stars in this movie are Lara Dutta and Diljit Dosanjh. Then there were also people who were awestruck by what they saw and praised her look as well. Experts however said that her new hair colour suited her really well but the same could not be said of the outfit. As flamboyant as it was it still appeared to be a bit off.