Sitting in the front row at designer Swapnil Shinde’s Frozen Fragility show made us feel as if we were in watching an eerie movie in a cinema hall. His supporters hooted for him, which could be heard over the din of the loud background score, a remixed version of the song ‘Kahin deep jale kahin dil’. On cue, with the haunting score emerged a flash of laser lights.

Shinde’s collection was inspired by the horror films of 1950s and ’60s Bollywood. Models sashayed in flowy, billowy silhouettes; we spotted an ode to the trademark flying pallu. Shinde used cinched waists to hark back to the era too.