Sanjay Leela Bhansali is known for creating a larger-than-life world in his films. His opulent sets and extravagant scenes are often used as quintessential examples of how a grand film is made to look on celluloid. Devdas was one of those films starring Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Madhuri Dixit. Adapted from the literary novel of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the film went on to win several accolades.
In a Femina interview that has resurfaced online again, the costume designer Neeta Lulla shed some light on the climax scene of the film and how he had changed the saree worn by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan at the last minute. She shared, “He told me, ‘I just visualized her (Aishwarya) running down the stairs with her pallu burning, and I need a 15-meter-long silk saree for the flutter. I need two of these sarees because if one burns we have another.”
Furthermore, she added, “This was all happening at Goregaon’s studio. We didn’t have mobiles at the time; we only had pagers. In front of me, he called Aishwarya and Kirron Kher to ask if they had two identical puja sarees. All this time, I kept asking him if I could leave. They soon realised nobody had it. By this time, it was 10:30 at night. Sanjay asked me if he could shoot the next day. I said, ‘Of course and left the studio.”
She concluded by saying how a tailor was helpful enough to open his shop at midnight and that’s how she got the fabric and the saree and made it to the set at 9:30 the next morning.
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