(Mr. Bakshi turns to finally face his wife and sees her excessive makeup, heavy jewelry and bright sari.)

The costume department dressed the principal characters in contrasting colours to highlight their differing backgrounds; Moores was dressed in muted colours while Sanjani wore bright saris and jewellery.

Only a few paces away, in the middle of a street, an old woman in a bright yellow sari writhed upon the asphalt, drowning in her own fluids.

Late into the night, women in bright, elaborate saris and men in Western clothes dance in a spiraling circle.

Zhobelia wore a voluminous bright red sari and a matching red hat in the style of a turban.

On the hot, dusty road from the airport, she had watched rickshaws surge past women sweeping the streets, bone-thin in their bright saris.

Crowds fill the streets, with women in bright saris and some men in turbans.

Clad in bright saris and salvar kameez - flowing tunics worn over pants - they raise colorful sticks called dandias above their heads and tap them together in time to the music.

Flora wore a bright scarlet sari and a yellow silk head scarf, and her neck was decorated with twenty or thirty necklaces of shells and beads and Balinese silver.

The girl who ac- companied him was small and dark, slim in her bright sari.