Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari

Murder-3 actress, Aditi Rao Hydari, made her ramp debut at Lakme Fashion Week, where she was the celebrity showstopper for designer Payal Singhal.

Known for dressing in high-street labels and western silhouettes, Aditi looked radically different in a red embroidered lehenga choli. In an exclusive tete-a-tete, we asked her what it was like to sport a style that she usually doesn’t wear.

Click through to hear what she had to say, and for more pics of her red-hot desi avatar!

Aditi tells us, “Actually, If I could wear these kind of clothes everyday, I would. And if Payal made them for me in mulmul, I would wear them. In fact, I have clothes like this in my wardrobe. I have shararas in mul with kurtis and I used to wear them in Delhi. But after coming to Bombay, I changed my style of dressing because it’s a very different way of dressing here. I feel we should celebrate what is beautiful to us, to our country, to our heritage – and reclaim it. We have beautiful textiles, we have so many different kinds of crafts and we should explore those!”

Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari
Aditi Rao Hydari
Payal Singhal with Aditi Rao Hydari
Payal Singhal with Aditi Rao Hydari

Watch our full exclusive interview with her here:

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