India's first Oscar-winning costume designer Bhanu Athaiya no more

Updated On: 16 October, 2020 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Upala KBR

Redefining the way fashion was consumed by the most elegant in Bollywood, late costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, who brought home the Academy Award for Gandhi, is remembered by contemporaries as a maverick.

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Bhanu Athaiya with Ben Kinsgely on the sets of Gandhi. Pics /Instagram

In her memoir, The Art Of Costume Design, Bhanu Athaiya recalled being the only Indian on the sets of Richard Attenborough's 1982 film, Gandhi. Her job, as costume designer for the film's Indian characters, earned India its first Academy Award (and the only one bagged by an Indian woman).

Athaiya designed the costumes of Swades