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Winner of the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for 'Lamhe', 'Devdas' and 'Jodhaa Akbar', Neeta Lulla talks about working on period dramas, how the pandemic changed fashion and more. One of Bollywood’s favourite costume designers, Neeta Lulla has worked on films like Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Manikarnika and Thalaivii.
In an exclusive interview, she spoke about the hard work involved in costume design, the seriousness of the glamour world, and fashion coming of age. Excerpts:
You have won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for 'Devdas', 'Balgandharva', 'Jodhaa Akbar', and worked for over 300 Hindi movies. What is your process when working for a Bollywood film?
Education is a must. Understanding the techniques of fashion, of garment constructions, embroideries, the history of garments in India and around the world gives you access to use fabrics and styles and also create new concepts. Understanding cuts and figure types is very important.
As far as period dramas are concerned, it comes with a lot of experience. If you are inclined towards doing costume dramas, and if you’re educated in fashion, you understand it better.
t is an ever-revolving scenario. It has evolved to a place where the country has become a very fashionable place, with the younger audience buying clothes and lifestyle products that make them feel happy.
What’s happened with the pandemic is that people's introspective choices have become different style statements. Because people are working from home, their fashion quotient has had a complete shift. With this happening, the industry is also going through change - overall perspective, digital, practical and out-of-the-box approach to the kind of clothes, to the kind of fashion statements being created.
I think the seriousness of the glamour world has come of age, and today we see different perspectives creating different opportunities and different fashion statements.
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