There’s winter and there’s the pleasantly cool climate that Mumbaikars choose to call winter. Ask anyone who has braved the cold in north India and you’d get a smirk when you quiz him or her about Mumbai’s ‘winter’. One doesn’t even need to check the weather report to know that in spite of it being the end of November, the city’s temperatures have barely dipped. But lovers of cool that we are, we seem to want to celebrate the nip in the air at night (the days still have us breaking into a sweat but we want to ignore that). 

What’s interesting then is how Bollywood chooses to (pun intended) throw caution to the winds. If some of tinseltown’s celeb outings are any indication, our actors seem to be living in a climate bubble of their own, and aren’t checking the weather before choosing their attire. What else can possibly explain their decision to tog out in jackets, hooded jackets, trench coats, shawls and boots? There’s no doubt that they make for great fashion statements, but it seems they are out of touch with reality.