Nora Fatehi refused to wear tiny blouse in ‘Dilbar’, says she can’t be styled like Ananya Panday, Janhvi Kapoor, Sara Ali Khan: ‘Don’t over-sexualise me’

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She added, “They had to reconstruct the whole blouse. I said, ‘I don’t mind showing the stomach, because it is about the aesthetics, but I cannot be showing too much cleavage. To a lot of people it looks over sexy, but for me it was something I was comfortable wearing compared to what they were going to give me.”

Nora then explained how tough it is to put foot your down as a nobody in the industry. She said, “It’s also so tough because when you work with filmmakers as a nobody, and I was a nobody at that time, they are like, ‘Who the hell do you think you are? I have to explain to them with love and make them understand, ‘Let’s not divert. The music is so good. The choreography is so good. Don’t ruin that because of a stupid blouse’. That’s what I told Milap, and he said, ‘Okay, I get it.’. I said, ‘Let them focus on my face, and dance moves. Let them not focus on the breasts.’ When I spoke to him like that, he was like, ‘Okay, I get it.'”

She added, “Today, when I do have the power to talk. I do tell my stylists, ‘This is too much.’ The way they dress Ananya (Panday), Sara (Ali Khan), or Janhvi (Kapoor), they cannot dress me the same way. My body is not the same. I have a lot of conflict where I do have to push this on stylists and directors because they will make certain clothes and be like, ‘Well, the others are wearing this.’ I am like, ‘I get that, but the others don’t look like me unfortunately when I wear it.’ So we have to think about that, and with my body type, because it’s not really familiar in Bollywood. Not a lot of girls have my body type. It’s tough for stylists and directors to understand where I am coming from, but once I push and they get it, they are like, ‘Okay, cool.'”

She explained, “Unfortunately, if I wear what they wore. It would just take away from the choreography and the beauty of the dance, the beauty of the presence and the song.”