'Sanjay Dutt was a very stylish person. He created his own style; he did not follow trends.'
'He wasn't a tapori, he was grand.'
'Also, whatever he wore, reflected what was going on in his life.'
Making an actor look like a totally new person is all in a day's work for Eka Lakhani.
The 30-year-old designer has worked with some of Bollywood's talented brigade and completely transformed them in their movies.
And that's how Anil Kapoor became Fanney Khan, Ranbir Kapoor became Sanjay Dutt, Shraddha Kapoor became Haseena Parkar, and Diljit Dosanjh became Sandeep Singh.
Eka, whose father worked in the textile industry for 40 years, started her career by assisting Mani Ratnam on his beautiful film Raavan, when she was only 21.
Fresh from completing fashion designing courses in New York, Eka was ready to take on a career of high fashion when she got a call from Sabyasachi Mukherjee's office.
He was doing the costumes for Raavan, and Eka was thrilled to take it up.
The Raavan shoot took her to Chalakudy in Kerala.
"I was in high fashion, little did I know that the shoot would be a jungle, and there would be leeches, and I would have to work in muck!" she remembers, with a laugh.
"I remember calling my mom and crying, saying I cannot wear the clothes I had brought. I asked her to send my old pajamas; I couldn't be a New Yorker here!"
By the time Raavan was complete, a year later, Eka discovered the earthy side to her.
And while Eka was making that discovery, two prominent film personalities were making another.
"Two people really discovered me in that film -- Art Director Samir Chanda, who is no more with us, and Cinematographer Santosh Sivan. Samir sir noticed that I was very good in colours and fabrics, and he encouraged me," she says.
Santosh Sivan went further, and gave Eka her first film as a solo designer.
Urmi was a period costume drama, featuring Prabhudeva, Prithviraj, Genelia, Tabu and Vidya Balan.
"I was only 23, and I got my first break," Eka says.
She went on to become a regular on Mani Ratnam and Santosh Sivan's crews.
With time, Eka bagged Bollywood projects like Gulaab Gang and NH10... "And that's where my Bollywood career took off," she says, grinning.
'He wasn't a tapori, he was grand.'
'Also, whatever he wore, reflected what was going on in his life.'
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| Eka Lakhani |
Making an actor look like a totally new person is all in a day's work for Eka Lakhani.
The 30-year-old designer has worked with some of Bollywood's talented brigade and completely transformed them in their movies.
And that's how Anil Kapoor became Fanney Khan, Ranbir Kapoor became Sanjay Dutt, Shraddha Kapoor became Haseena Parkar, and Diljit Dosanjh became Sandeep Singh.
Eka, whose father worked in the textile industry for 40 years, started her career by assisting Mani Ratnam on his beautiful film Raavan, when she was only 21.
Fresh from completing fashion designing courses in New York, Eka was ready to take on a career of high fashion when she got a call from Sabyasachi Mukherjee's office.
He was doing the costumes for Raavan, and Eka was thrilled to take it up.
The Raavan shoot took her to Chalakudy in Kerala.
"I was in high fashion, little did I know that the shoot would be a jungle, and there would be leeches, and I would have to work in muck!" she remembers, with a laugh.
"I remember calling my mom and crying, saying I cannot wear the clothes I had brought. I asked her to send my old pajamas; I couldn't be a New Yorker here!"
By the time Raavan was complete, a year later, Eka discovered the earthy side to her.
And while Eka was making that discovery, two prominent film personalities were making another.
"Two people really discovered me in that film -- Art Director Samir Chanda, who is no more with us, and Cinematographer Santosh Sivan. Samir sir noticed that I was very good in colours and fabrics, and he encouraged me," she says.
Santosh Sivan went further, and gave Eka her first film as a solo designer.
Urmi was a period costume drama, featuring Prabhudeva, Prithviraj, Genelia, Tabu and Vidya Balan.
"I was only 23, and I got my first break," Eka says.
She went on to become a regular on Mani Ratnam and Santosh Sivan's crews.
With time, Eka bagged Bollywood projects like Gulaab Gang and NH10... "And that's where my Bollywood career took off," she says, grinning.
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