Rasika Dugal Did Not Require Any Prosthetics Or Makeup To Look Like Safia In MANTO
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Wednesday, 23rd May 2018, 4:10 PM IST Rasika Dugal was recently in Cannes for the world premiere of her much-awaited project ‘Manto’, directed by Nandita Das and starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui in the titular role, based on the life of the Indo-Pakistani author, Saddat Hassan Manto in the post-independence period. Rasika plays the role of Manto’s wife, Safia and the film premiered to a packed audience who lauded the lead pair's performance. Nandita’s pet project also stars Rajshri Deshpande as a celebrated author, Ismat Chugtai and has a guest appearance from several actors including Shabana Azmi, Purab Kohli, and Chandan Roy Sanyal. Rasika, who had to do a great deal of preparation for her role as the noted author’s wife, recently revealed that she did not require any prosthetics or makeup to look like Safia. The stylists made sure that the clothes and hairdos from that era would be enough to give viewers an authentic replication of a real-life person, in a respectful manner. Interestingly the results of her look are more than uncanny as when compared to images of the real-life Safia. All this was managed to be achieved with precision without the use of any heavy makeup or prosthetics. It’s a usual practice in several real-life stories and biopics for makers to resort to the art of makeup to make the actors come as close as possible to looking their real people. Biopics are always a minor but pivotal imitation of real-life incidents of a person’s life and it reflects beautifully when directors and actors go to the lengths to justify this imitation. Now you can enjoy ad-free experience by downloading India’s first Box Office mobile app from here –Android: http://bit.ly/BOCapsuleMobileApp and iOS: bit.ly/BOCapsuleiOSApp | |||