Neeta Lulla, who is one of the famous costume designers of Bollywood, has recently worked with Kangana Ranaut, on the sets of Thalaivi. In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, she opened up about her experience of working with the Queen of Bollywood.
The famous costume designer has also worked in Kangana starrer Manikarnika, the biopic of Rani Lakshmibai. Talking about working with Kangana, she said, “It’s been an absolute pleasure! Kangana is a person who puts her 100 percent best in all her characters”.
She also said that it was the actor’s trust factor in her that gave her comfort, she added, “She leaves it to her technicians who she trusts to be able to create her characterisation which helps her play her part the best. It is the trust factor that she had in me that helped me deliver the characterisation gave me a comfort level. I have put in 100 percent because she had trust in me”.
Talking about her challenges on working with this film, the designer revealed, “Trying to recreate certain songs to the closest possible look and trying to recreate the structure of Jayalalithaa in her years as a Minister was quite challenging. Also, the fact that we had to create 5 different aspects of her life and the kind of look we had to do needed sarees that were as close as possible to the 60s, 70s, 80s and still needed to look glamorous”.
Neeta Lulla is currently working in Telugu language film, Shaakuntalam, a Samantha Akkineni, Aditi Balan and Mohan Babu starrer.
