Ashutosh Gowariker: Bhanutai was a true-blue costume designer

Updated On: 16 October, 2020 05:45 PM IST | Mumbai | Shaheen Parkar

Ashutosh Gowariker collaborated with costume designer Bhanu Athaiya on two of his projects, the Aamir Khan-starrer Lagaan and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Swades

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Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker collaborated with costume designer Bhanu Athaiya on two of his projects, the Aamir Khan-starrer Lagaan (2001) and Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Swades (2004). Athaiya, India's first Oscar winner, who bagged the Academy Award for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), passed away on Thursday after a prolonged illness. She was 91.

Athaiya designed the costumes of Swades