1. Vidya Balan comes with a very strong traditional image, owing to her use of saree as a preferred garb at most times. How tough was it for you to transform that image and mould it into something else?
It was a unique experience and great challenge for me to design Vidya’s character, considering the audience is used to and loves seeing her in sarees. We haven’t seen Vidya in western outfits for a while now. So, the constant pressure of whether or not the audience will love her as much in western clothing was always there. But, since Vidya is an actor who gets involved in the smallest of details of the character she plays, she would let me experiment with various
silhouettes to figure which looks best on her, at the same time keeping in mind her character. We went through several rounds of ideation to freeze on the character she’s playing and I must admit that she never lost patience over the number of trials we did.