BY ASHRAF PADANNA

KOCHI: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan appeared in mundu (dhoti) at a couple of public functions in the Kerala port city on Sunday evening and he instantly fell in love with "the dhoti in all its pristine glamour, tied up around the waist by shear will power and some dextrous use of the stomach muscle."

The Big B narrates the labour he has to undergo to wear the traditional single-piece Kerala attire and stop it from slipping down and opening up in the latest blog that he wrote on Monday.

"It is just a piece of cloth, no buttons, no belts, no clips nothing.

"Simple elegant convenient and with its own characteristic charm and above all -- air conditioned at all times," he is all praise for the mundu.

"The fall of the main design as a strip down the front to be positioned on the right hip and just around the right knee," he wrote on the Indian social networking site promoted by his friend Anil Ambani's Reliance Entertainment.

"How wonderful it would be if I could drop everything around me and just visit every corner of India to imbibe, learn and experience my own land and people...So, I wear the dhoti or munda as it is more colloquially known for the evening and I think there is an appreciation of it."