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In one of his best performances till date, Arjun Rampal looks and acts his part perfectly in D-Day.
Nawazuddin Siddhique looks comfortable in his printed lungi, as he takes a break in Anurag Kashyap's bloody film, Gangs Of Wasseypur.
As a clairvoyant mystic who tries to solve spooky issues troubling his friend's household in Bhool Bhulaiya, Akki gives the traditional a uber chic twist.
Aamir Khan pays tribute to Clint Eastwood and Rajinikanth in one breath with his bizarre mishmash of east-meets-west as a nautanki actor in Dharmesh Darshan's Caravan rip-off.
Bollywood's effortless clothes horse can make a statement even in a pair of torn shorts.
The Shirtless Khan flaunts buff in a sarong-styled lungi for the title song of Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega.
The Jat hunk wears his lungi in the Punjabi tradition to look his role of Mahiwal in the doomed love story co-starring Poonam Dhillon.
Exaggerating cultural stereotypes is Bollywood's favourite past time.
Ad that's exactly what Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit engage in after chomping off a bite of drugged 'batata vada' in this silly but comical song from the lesser-known Hifazat.
A far cry from the sophisticated poet of Kabhi Kabhie, AB goes all out in a striped tee and popular lungi pattern to appease Hema Malini in Manmohan Desai's jingoistic social, Desh Premee.
Casual wear at home differs from person to person.
In Chashme Buddoor, the three friends and roomies played by Farookh Shaikh, Ravi Baswani and Rakesh Bedi alternate between kurta pajamas, shorts and tees or the unstitched lungi when idling about at home.
Mithun Chakraborty's breathless chatting and ridiculous costume lampooning the humble lungi as Krishnan Iyer M.A. Nariyalpaniwala, lends Mukul Anand's bloody drama some much-needed respite.
Rishi Kapoor plays the romantic Akbar Illahabadi to the T with his colourful wardrobe of colourful lungis and flamboyant shirts in one of Bollywood's most loved multistarrers of all time.
Sanjeev Kumar not only looks comfortable in the lungi but stylish too. The brilliant actor wears a visibly trendy and colourful range in the romance mystery, Anamika.
Needless to say no mention of lungi is complete without Mehmood and his iconic costume as the Hyderabadi-accent, lungi-swaying Butler in Gumnaam, which has been parodied by many actors since.
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