Dolly Ahluwalia

Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design.^[1] She has won 3 Filmfare Awards and three National Film Awards, two Best Costume Design awards for Bandit Queen (1993) and Haider (2014), and then as Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Donor (2012), which is also her best known role as an actress.^[2]

Career

She is alumni of National School of Drama graduating in 1979. Ahluwalia started her career by designing costumes for theatre. Thereafter she started film career with Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen in 1993, which got her first National Film Award for Best Costume Design.^[3] Thereafter she designed for notable directors like Vishal Bhardwaj in The Blue Umbrella (2005), Omkara (2006), Blood Brothers (2007), Kaminey (2009) and Haider (2014),^[2] with Deepa Mehta in Water (2005) and Midnight's Children (2012). Besides working with mainstream Bollywood films like Love Aaj Kal (2009), Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012) and with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013).^[4]

^ Drama - Costume Design Archived 24 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine || Sangeet Natak Akademi Official listings.
^ ^a ^b "Dolly Ahluwalia dresses up Shahid Kapoor in 'Haider'". The Times of India. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
^ "Dolly Ahluwalia gets nostalgic about Bandit Queen". The Indian Express. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
^ "I'm a costume designer first: Dolly Ahluwalia". Hindustan Times. 26 July 2013. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013.