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'I absolutely love Nakuul Mehta and Anya Singh'
Updated On: 03 May, 2022 11:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Costume designer Rick Roy on building the world of Zee 5 show Never Kiss Your best Friend season 2, comparisons with The Bold Type and pulling off the series despite budgetary limitations
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Karan Wahi with Nakuull Mehta and Anya Singh
Over the weekend, the one show that has struck a chord is Zee 5’s new series Never Kiss Your Best Friend Season 2. Taking the story ahead from season 1, the show delves into messy matters of the heart and explores friendship and relationship and everything in between. Amongst the many highlights of the series, besides the fantastic performances from leads Nakuul Mehta, Anya Singh and Karan Wahi is the show’s styling. Following the brief of creating the universe of a young-adult show to the tee, the series looks fashionably upbeat and peppy. Costume designer and Stylist Rick Roy walks us through how he built the second season. He tells us, “Season 2 is the next stage of the story. It is more in a professional space while season 1 was more in growing up space for the characters. Evidently, the bigger now and more stylish.We have a bigger cast with very important new main characters. Look wise I honestly wanted to top what we did in season 1. I wanted it to be more stylish without going away from the original essence.”
Ask him about his references and he says, “When we were designing the looks we didn`t have a reference of a particular show but we had a visual in mind. I wanted Tani (Anya) in a specific way. She for me in this season was heavily inspired by South East Asian pop culture. I was inspired by HARAJUKU, the Japanese style street, multiple vibrant cross coloured layers and stuff but we simplified it to fit the character. Sumair (Nakuul) obviously I just wanted to follow the same ethos from season 1 but more style and added more colours to him as well. I wanted the show to be all pop. Lavanya (Sarah Jane Dias) I loved dressing. I love doing sexy things. She was a character from Devil wears Prada. I went all out for her. We made most of her clothes including her fur coats because we were working off a limited budget and couldn`t afford to buy anything branded. We managed to make her look uber posh and I feel that is the point of a designer. We need to make characters look good. It`s not necessary to just buy the most expensive clothes, as long as you can make them look expensive on screen.” In recent times, Hulu’s The Bold Type comes off as the show that is the Holy Grail for stylists. “I started watching that series after I finished this show. I have been getting a lot of it from people saying it`s got that Emily in Paris vibe. I take it like a huge compliment.”
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