Film still of Priyanka Chopra in Dostana

In the late 2000s the saree amped up the heat and reached its sexiest, most fevered pitch. Priyanka Chopra in ‘Desi Girl’, Dostana (2008) was all about ‘if you got it flaunt it’. The slinky nude metallic saree worn with a sequinned bikini top mixed the east with the west but developed a whole new genre. Was it the new version of the cocktail saree? Not at all. It was the whole Martini – shaken and stirred.