More than a month ago, it was Diwali and we (me &
husband) saw this Marathi movie Katyar
Kaljat Ghusli – a musical masterstroke as it has been reviewed. Indeed a
beautiful movie. Many said that if one has seen the original theatrical play
then he/she won’t enjoy the movie as much. Thankfully I have not seen the play
and I liked the movie. It rarely happens that I like something, especially
movies!
The last scene; the final jugalbandi of melody at its very peak has grasped all the viewers
to the core; who is going to win and how, is what everyone is thinking but me.
What I am doing in this climax situation? I am looking at what Khan saab is wearing. Rather, my eye and mind
were forced to look at it. Something was wrong, something was visually
disturbing. And exactly that was taking away all my attention from the musical
pinnacle to a pattern that had gone wrong!
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| Collage of screen shot images from You Tube |
Khan saab was wearing a beautiful waist coast brocaded in silk and gold,
patterned with bold lotus motifs spread all over on a turquoise blue
background. This would have been more beautiful only if the lotuses were
oriented in a right direction.
Khan saab being
one of the key characters in this scene, it was important to get his jacket made
rightly with lotuses oriented in the right direction i.e. straight and upwards.
I have never seen lotuses floating horizontally, have you?
I am sure many of us have encountered this kind of
pattern disorientation and some have gone unnoticed, especially with local
“ladies” tailors who think they know the world or with some cheap garment
brands where the front side of your kurta has paisley motifs running upwards
and on the back side the paisleys are running downwards. I bet on this!
Then post Diwali, my brother wanted me to accompany him
for shopping for his soon approaching wedding day. This is the first time I enter
the brand shop called Manyavar – well
known for traditional menswear, and we select two sets of chudidar kurta, none
of my choice though. I had suggested FabIndia… but….!
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| Images by Apurva sent via WhatsApp |
One of our selections was a gold damask patterned waist
coat woven in 100% polyester (not mentioned on the label) I noticed that the
maple leaf motifs that composed the damask pattern were disoriented, they were
upside down! I know that it is alright for foliage to have any direction, but
not in a damask pattern. Okay, maybe this disorientation was a stitching
mistake so I asked for another piece of the same kind, but no luck! So my
brother had to wear a disoriented maple leaf damask pattern for his pre-wedding
ceremony.
Further to this I was thinking that why did an Indian
traditional menswear brand make garments with maple leaf damask pattern? What
has maple leaves to do with India? Except if you are living in Kashmir and
choose to wear this maple damask instead of beautiful traditional hand
embroidered Kashmiri pheran on your
wedding day!
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