The quintessential bollywood underwear...!

Something that has been a mystery to me since the last ten years and continues to baffle me is the manner in which bollywood flashes male nudity in the comic sense. It appears, that its an implied understanding between the movie maker and the audience that a ‘knee length pyjama’ with vertical stripes all over is as good as wearing nothing at all. A bollywood actor, more often a comedian, would be construed as having worn nothing inside his pants which would fall off to flash these long striped shorts with naadas as long as a Donkey's tail. The actor would then run helter-skelter in embarrassment as though his chastity has been attacked. Precedents have been set over the years by legendary comedians like Mehmood and Johny Lever to this effect. These great men have carried the tradition of sporting this classic attire and placing it on the same platform as an underwear.
Be it Anil Kapoor in ‘Loafer’ or Shakti Kapoor in ‘Raja Babu’, these legends have always written off these shorts as underwears. This phenomenon was taken a step forward when Alok Nath in ‘Insaaf’ removed his pants to sit on a commode, to do the dew, with the quintessential bollywood underwear on. However, it was Akshay Kumar who climbed down like a spider man from the top, to interfere in Alok Nath’s load shedding activity. History repeated itself for the second time when Ashish Vidyarthi in ‘Jodi No.1’ placed himself in a similar situation. Minutes later, he was thrashed to humiliation by Sanjay Dutt and Govinda. Speaking of Govinda reminds me of the movie ‘Saajan Chale Sasural’ wherein he takes his pants off in front of his two wives to demolish the confusion created by his dual identity. Shame dawns upon the people standing next to him though he is well clad in his knee length shorts, which if not vertically striped, could have been worn by a tourist guide at work.
Movie makers from the Hollywood may be interested in conducting a research to crack the mystery behind this implied understanding between hindi film directors and the audience. I, as an ardent follower of the bollywood movies, have obviously reconciled to the fact that I ought to be a party to this understanding.