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Anarkali Shalwar Kameez 2011

 

Anarkali Shalwar Kameez 2011 speculated what the latest fashion trend is in this celebratory season? Well, certainly it has to be the Anarkali  salwar  suits, back in fashion after a extended time and how! fashion is today becoming very fashionable in India and between most of the NRI women as well. But do we know the history of how this splendid outfit got its name as the “Anarkali salwar kameez“?Well, Anarkali (“pomegranate blossom”) was a renowned slave girl from Lahore (Pakistan) during the Mughal era.

 

She was a performer and dancer at the palace of the Emperor Akbar. She was allegedly ordered to be buried alive by the Emperor for having an illegitimate love affair with Prince Salim, who later became the royal leader Jahangir. The dance called mujra was famed at that time.


 

Legendary dancers at the fortress of the Mughal kings danced for the kings’ amusement. So, the dresses worn by the dancers were known as mujra dresses which slowly came to be known as Anarkali dresses or Anarkali dresses in the commemoration of the great dancer and ardent lover , Anarkali.

 

We have all seen how Bollywood stars admired this designer salwar kameez , making them so famous in the 1970′s to 1990′s. It was made popular  by Madhubala in the song ‘Pyar kiya to darna kya’ from the film ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ and Madhuri in ‘Aaja Nachle’. Heroines like Rekha, Parveen Babi, Jayaprada, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Divya Bharti brought this Anarkali salwar style into the fashion in Bollywood and it has been re-discovered time and again.

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