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Ashutosh Gowariker: Bhanutai was a true-blue dress designer
- Updated: October 16, 2020
Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker collaborated with dress engineer Bhanu Athaiya on dual of his projects, a Aamir Khan-starrer Lagaan (2001) and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Swades (2004). Athaiya, India’s initial Oscar winner, who bagged a Academy Award for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), upheld divided on Thursday after a enlarged illness. She was 91.
Athaiya designed a costumes of Swades
Gowariker recollects, “Bhanutai was a initial and apparent choice as dress engineer for Lagaan. we used to always hear about her prior works. The Oscar she perceived for Gandhi was a valuables in her crown. She was a loyal blue dress designer. we still remember a initial assembly during her office, that was located on a belligerent building of her Breach Candy home. we had suspicion of environment Lagaan in a year 1890, though she told me to set it in 1893. As Queen Victoria was in anguish during that period, she would usually wear black and grey, that led to several people in England also wearing a same colours, though by 1893, she had started wearing light colours, so she could have a floral palette while conceptualizing for a British characters in Lagaan. we was blown over by her prudent investigate and eye for detail.”
Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan warranted her a National Film Award
He continued, “She knew a story well, and this was before a days of a Internet and Google search. She only seemed to know everything. Her believe about colour and textiles with viewpoint to a camera was too deep, she knew what would work during a day stage and night scene. It might have seemed laborious, though a formula were there to see on screen. In Swades, she put Mohan Bhargav (Shah Rukh Khan) in a half-sleeved shirt. She would always be around on a set and safeguard that each actor was happy and gentle in what they wore.”
Also Read: Bhanu Athaiya (1929-2020) – India’s First Oscar-Winning Costume Designer No More
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