Mumbai: If rumours are to be believed Varun Dhawan, the illustrious son of director David Dhawan won’t be wearing the coolie’s outfit in the Dhawans’ second collaborative venture Coolie No 1.
A source very close to the project informs, “I don’t think Varun would look cool in that red outfit which Govinda wore as a coolie in the original Coolie No 1 or Amitabh Bachchan in Coolie. Those were different times. Nowadays if you go to a railway station in Mumbai the coolies don’t dress up like that, in fact they are no longer called coolies.”
Then arises the question, why is the new avatar of David Dhawan-Govinda starrer featuring Dhawan’s ‘cool’ son, called Coolie No.1?
The question in point here is not of the cultural change, the coolie dress code has undergone in this country since the time Coolie No 1 and Coolie were originally made in the ’90s. The question is of our current stars looking ‘cool’ no matter what they do. And credibility is damned.
A filmmaker who is currently working on an ambitious project with Salman Khan says, “Cultural identity is not a desirable thing any more. You show your Muslim hero in a traditional pathani suit or with a beard, you are accused of stereotyping. I wanted Salman to be dressed according to his character’s cultural background, but I was told it won’t be ‘cool’ to do so.”
The whole scenario brings us to ask, who defines what is cool or not? The fashion police, the moral police, the costume designers or the hero who wears what he wants to wear?
