Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, India’s first Oscar winner, passed away in Mumbai on Thursday ie. 15th October from complications of brain cancer at a medical center in South Mumbai. Bhanu Athaiya was 91. The costume designer’ last rites took place at the Chandanwadi crematorium in South Mumbai.
Athaiya’s daughter Radhika Gupta informed to the media, “My mother Bhanu Athaiya passed away on Thursday. 8 years ago, she was diagnosed with a tumor in her brain. For the last 3 years, she was bedridden because one side of her body was paralysed.”
Bhanu Athaiya won the Best Costume Design Oscar for her work in the film Gandhi, which was released in 1982.
Bhanu Athaiya was a costume designer, having worked in over 100 films, since the 1950s, with filmmakers such as Guru Dutt, Yash Chopra, Raj Khosla, Raj Kapoor, BR Chopra, Ashutosh Gowariker, Vijay Anand and international directors such Conrad Rooks and Richard Attenborough.
Bhanu Athaiya made her debut as a film costume designer with the film CID in 1956.
In March 2010, she released her book The Art of Costume D. She won 2 National Awards — for Gulzar’s Lekin in 1990 and Aamir Khan’s Lagaan in 2001.
Bhanu Athaiya was the first Indian to win an Oscar – she won the Best Costume Design Academy Award in the year 1983 for Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi.
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