Sizzling 70s: Fashion trends on celluloid

It is hard to talk about the seventies without a smile for those outrageous outfits.

International influences were absorbed and then enhanced the way only Bollywood can. The leading ladies represented both the best and the worst of it!.

The backcombed bouffants, the belly button saris, the clinging kameezs- this was a time when necklines plunged and hemlines soared.

Bold floral prints were everywhere a carry over from the 60s flower power with Rekha and Jaya Bhaduri sporting many unforgettable examples!.

Zeenat Aman probably represented the seventies at its sexiest with dam maro dam, while Parveen Babi brought disco back.

Dimple Kapadia and Neetu Singh brought along the age of the minis to be paired only with platforms.

Men from the 70s could not stay far behind. Rajesh Khanna gave fashion trends a try with his suede jackets and neck carves.

Such was the style of the seventies that thirty years on, its back in vogue