28 October,2009 01:29 PM IST | | IANS
How about designer clothes for prisoners? "Not a bad idea," says Bollywood actor Neil Nitin Mukesh who walked down the ramp Tuesday wearing a designer version of prison uniform along with handcuffs at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) here.
When asked Neil about how he felt about wearing designer prisoner clothes, he said: "It's different but nice. It's not a bad idea to get Reynu to redesign the uniform for jail inmates."
He was accompanied by co-stars Mugdha Godse and Manoj Bajpayee apart from director Madhur Bhandarkar -- they all walked the ramp to promote "Jail".
The actor pointed out how the designer had taken special care to add a bright yellow strip on the kurta's sleeve - a symbol on the jail uniform that denotes lifetime imprisonment for a convict.
"She (Reynu) has done authentic research to design just two garments for us. The yellow strip denotes life imprisonment in a real jail and our characters also go through it. She was the one who thought of making us wear handcuffs and gave us fake bruise marks through make-up to give the real feel," said Neil.
When asked whether she enjoyed making prison clothes for the actors, the designer said: "I had such amazing prisoners to dress. I basically designed what I wanted to and they look like hot prisoners."
In "Jail", Neil plays a middle-class boy working in the corporate sector who ends up in a jail.
Mugdha, who plays Neil's love interest in "Jail", looked perfect on the ramp as she posed in a black and white sari for the designer.
Backstage, the model-turned-actress was busy teaching Bhandarkar, Manoj and Neil how to catwalk.
An embarrassed Mugdha was quick to clarify: "I was not teaching them. I was just giving them a few tips."
