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4	[[quoteright:300:[[UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vyapari6.jpg]]]]
5	[[caption-width-right:300:The Indian way to achieve {{Fanservice}}.]]
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7	UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}}-specific trope of wet clothing played for sexiness.
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9	In Bollywood films, it's pretty much a cliche that if an attractive woman is wearing a sari, she ''will'' get soaking wet at some point in the movie (getting soaked in the rain is considered especially [[RomanticRain romantic]]).
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11	India has a legally enforced nudity taboo, so this is {{Fanservice}} without the nudity (even if you do see breasts, but not [[NippleAndDimed nipples]]).
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13	Sub-trope of SexySoakedShirt. See also SexySurfacingShot.
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16	!!Wet Sari Examples:
17	* ''Film/DilSe'': Shah Rukh Khan's character and the leading lady end up drenched in the opening scene. He is in another song with the other love interest where they dance in a river and get very wet.
18	* ''Film/{{Fanaa}}'': Features a scene where the blind heroine writhes in the rain with the [[spoiler:soon-to-be-terrorist]] hero.
19	* ''Film/HerculesReturns'': Lampshaded when the women go for a swim in their togas, the GagDub has them practicing for a WetTShirtContest.
20	* ''Film/KabhiKushiKabhieGham'': Particularly gratuitous example is one song which features both the hero and the heroine dancing in the surf - which they've been conveniently transported to after dancing in front of the pyramids of Gizeh just seconds before.
21	* ''Film/MainHoonNa'': Creator/ShahRukhKhan and Sushmita Sen spend the last half of one of the songs dripping wet. SRK's shirts are so hilariously see-through that they were obviously sheer even before they got wet.
22	** Shah Rukh Khan is quite the man when it comes to those scenes, considering that he also ends up drenched by torrential rains in ''Film/KuchKuchHotaHai'', ''Film/KabhiAlvidaNaaKehna'', ''[[Film/VeerZaara Veer-Zaara]]'' and ''Film/{{Asoka}}''.
23	* ''Film/MujhseDostiKaroge!'': Everyone at first goes "oh crap it's raining!" and heads back inside, but the JerkAss hero decides to pull the heroine out into the yard and sing a soaked, steaming, sexually-charged ballad in front of everyone including HIS fiancee and HER soon-to-be-fiance. It's awkward for all of ten seconds and then everyone's like "YAY! RAIN!" and they all dance together like nothing happened.
24	* ''Film/OmShantiOm'': Shah Rukh Khan's character emerges from a pool which seems set in LSD-Land and jumps around in slow motion while the camera focuses on water dribbling down his back. Then he opens his arms and someone off-screen throws a bucket of water at his chest.
25	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lampshaded in ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E3MyWayOrTheHighwayToHeaven My Way or the Highway to Heaven]]''. Lisa imagines herself as Princess “Siddmartha” - a female version of Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism - and seeks out the wisest scholars in the kingdom on her road to enlightenment. Arriving at Kathmandu University, she finds it’s really a party school, complete with a Wet Sari Contest.
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