Amrita Arora in a Car Wash Scene
A Swish Car with giant wheels being washed by a knockout babe in her skimpiest, drenched by water gushing out of a hose pipe.
A lethal combo and an age-old male fantasy. While it’s originally and essentially a very Hollywood concept, it’s ‘inspired’ several of our film-makers as well. Salaam Namaste director Sidharth Anand even got a dumb blonde to do the washing. But not everyone got it right, with most of these scenes looking tacky, unnecessary and far from sensual.
Director Raj Sippy’s Woh had a car wash scene picturised on Priyanshu Chatterjee and Laila. It’s the Cool Hand Luke scene, in which a hot blonde (Joy Harmon), bathed in lather cleans a car before the watchful eyes of a bunch of shirtless men looking mesmerised, that inspired him. “I wanted a similar sensuous scene in Woh assisted by music. Camera angles make all the difference in such scenes,” says Raj.
Several unheard-of Bollywood sleaze fests have relied on such scenes to pull in the crowd, but have lacked the mandatory finesse for a car wash scene. So, you have a desperate Dia Mirza trying all her moves as she washes a car that definitely doesn’t need one in a song in Koi Mere Dil Main Hai, leaving co-star Rakesh Bapat wide-eyed. Neha Dhupia also lost her inhibitions before Sonu Sood in the car wash scene in Sheesha. The film’s director Ashu Trikha says it had a tantalising effect. “Initially, the song wasn’t part of Sheesha. I thought of shooting it with music as the character was deaf and dumb. But words made it more sensual,” adds Ashu.
While the same can’t be said about Sonu, Anil Kapoor looked more at ease in Sun Suniyo from Musafir, chilling with a beer bottle, as Koena Mitra plays temptress washing a Merc whose number plate reads MH 06 W600. That’s director Sanjay Gupta’s car. Sanjay admits his reference was the scene featuring Liv Tyler in One Night at McCool’s. Even the colour of Koena’s dress is similar to the one Liv wore. “I was more bothered about my Merc than Koena. She even asked me once, ‘You mind asking how I’m doing?’” laughs Gupta, adding, “The fine line between erotica and sleaze is razor sharp. If I had the villain instead of Anil in the scene or a young boy leching from the window, it could have turned bawdy.”
Contemporary soaps in the west like Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Ally Mc Beal (Ally fantasises about a man washing a car) and Sunset Beach have given their own twist to this scene. The one in the latter appears effortlessly cute. It’s this ‘cute’ effect that Kambakkht Ishq director Sabbir Khan hopes to achieve through the car wash scene in his film. “There’s no song, it’s not seductive, but a cute moment in which Amrita Arora’s washing a Beetle early in the morning and Aftab Shivadasani, who plays her hubby, gets slightly turned on. Since the film’s very Hollywood and set there, I incorporated it,” says Sabbir.
A lethal combo and an age-old male fantasy. While it’s originally and essentially a very Hollywood concept, it’s ‘inspired’ several of our film-makers as well. Salaam Namaste director Sidharth Anand even got a dumb blonde to do the washing. But not everyone got it right, with most of these scenes looking tacky, unnecessary and far from sensual.
Director Raj Sippy’s Woh had a car wash scene picturised on Priyanshu Chatterjee and Laila. It’s the Cool Hand Luke scene, in which a hot blonde (Joy Harmon), bathed in lather cleans a car before the watchful eyes of a bunch of shirtless men looking mesmerised, that inspired him. “I wanted a similar sensuous scene in Woh assisted by music. Camera angles make all the difference in such scenes,” says Raj.
Several unheard-of Bollywood sleaze fests have relied on such scenes to pull in the crowd, but have lacked the mandatory finesse for a car wash scene. So, you have a desperate Dia Mirza trying all her moves as she washes a car that definitely doesn’t need one in a song in Koi Mere Dil Main Hai, leaving co-star Rakesh Bapat wide-eyed. Neha Dhupia also lost her inhibitions before Sonu Sood in the car wash scene in Sheesha. The film’s director Ashu Trikha says it had a tantalising effect. “Initially, the song wasn’t part of Sheesha. I thought of shooting it with music as the character was deaf and dumb. But words made it more sensual,” adds Ashu.
While the same can’t be said about Sonu, Anil Kapoor looked more at ease in Sun Suniyo from Musafir, chilling with a beer bottle, as Koena Mitra plays temptress washing a Merc whose number plate reads MH 06 W600. That’s director Sanjay Gupta’s car. Sanjay admits his reference was the scene featuring Liv Tyler in One Night at McCool’s. Even the colour of Koena’s dress is similar to the one Liv wore. “I was more bothered about my Merc than Koena. She even asked me once, ‘You mind asking how I’m doing?’” laughs Gupta, adding, “The fine line between erotica and sleaze is razor sharp. If I had the villain instead of Anil in the scene or a young boy leching from the window, it could have turned bawdy.”
Contemporary soaps in the west like Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Ally Mc Beal (Ally fantasises about a man washing a car) and Sunset Beach have given their own twist to this scene. The one in the latter appears effortlessly cute. It’s this ‘cute’ effect that Kambakkht Ishq director Sabbir Khan hopes to achieve through the car wash scene in his film. “There’s no song, it’s not seductive, but a cute moment in which Amrita Arora’s washing a Beetle early in the morning and Aftab Shivadasani, who plays her hubby, gets slightly turned on. Since the film’s very Hollywood and set there, I incorporated it,” says Sabbir.
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