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Updated On: 24 February, 2009 07:35 AM IST | | Shweta Shiware
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"I couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift!" beamed Sabyasachi Mukherjee, without surrendering his signature calm. An exclamation was the order of the day, especially since AR Rahman wore the Kolkata designer's black khadi sherwani embellished with self-coloured Kashmiri-Kantha embroidery, while receiving two Oscar Awards (for Best Original Song: Jai Ho and Best Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire) on February 23.
Unlike a whimsical veteran designer from the Capital, who went to town about how Rahman was going to wear his sherwani for the Academy Awards, Sabyasachi modestly admitted that he was never meant to design for the music maestro. "I was approached by Rahman's stylist, Vijayeta, to create an outfit for Rahman's wife, Sairaa." That's when Sabyasachi suggested that Rahman wear a traditional sherwani while performing to Jai Ho, to focus spotlight on Indian textiles. "But with an event like the Academy Awards, there's pressure to wear a tuxedo, and Lanvin was zeroed in for Rahman's red carpet appearance," the designer explained.
The composer couldn't resist the allure of the traditional, and as destiny would have it, like Slumdog so positively portrayed, when he wore the sherwani at rehearsal, the cast and and crew including Danny Boyle, asked him to stick with it. "Since Rahman had very little time to change between the red carpet appearance (where he wore a Lanvin tuxedo), and main show, he ended up teaming the sherwani with Lanvin trousers," laughed Sabyasachi.
With no time to change, Rahman slipped on a sabyasachi Mukherjee sherwani over trousers by french label lanvin
>> Why we love that Rahman stuck to a sherwani, and wish Freida had looked closer home
"I couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift!" beamed Sabyasachi Mukherjee, without surrendering his signature calm. An exclamation was the order of the day, especially since AR Rahman wore the Kolkata designer's black khadi sherwani embellished with self-coloured Kashmiri-Kantha embroidery, while receiving two Oscar Awards (for Best Original Song: Jai Ho and Best Original Score: Slumdog Millionaire) on February 23.
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The composer couldn't resist the allure of the traditional, and as destiny would have it, like Slumdog so positively portrayed, when he wore the sherwani at rehearsal, the cast and and crew including Danny Boyle, asked him to stick with it. "Since Rahman had very little time to change between the red carpet appearance (where he wore a Lanvin tuxedo), and main show, he ended up teaming the sherwani with Lanvin trousers," laughed Sabyasachi.
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