 The 1967 film An Evening in Paris is mostly remembered because it featured Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore as the first Indian actress to wear a bikini on film . She also posed in a bikini for the glossy Filmfare magazine . The costume shocked a conservative Indian audience , but it also set in motion a trend carried forward by Zeenat Aman in Heera Panna ( 1973 ) and <unk> ( 1980 ) , Dimple Kapadia in Bobby ( 1973 ) , and Parveen Babi in Yeh <unk> ( 1982 ) . 
