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'''Eka Lakhani''' is an Indian fashion costume [[designer]], who has worked in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries. After beginning her career as an intern on the sets of ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010), she has become director [[Mani Ratnam]]'s costume designer for his films since 2013.<ref name="eka">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/loved-nithya-menens-clothes-ok-kanmani-meet-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-97971|title=Loved Nithya Menen's clothes in 'OK Kanmani'? Meet costume designer Eka Lakhani|date=March 8, 2019|website=The News Minute}}</ref> She has also worked in projects by directors [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[Karan Johar]] and [[Gautham Vasudev Menon|Gautham Menon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/designers/costume-designer-eka-lakhani-believes-costume-is-an-important-part-of-a-film/articleshow/77034542.cms|title=Costume designer Eka Lakhani believes costume is an important part of a film - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Lakhani studied fashion design at [[SNDT Women's University]], [[Mumbai]] for three years, and then spent a year at [[Fashion Institute of Technology]], [[New York City]]. During the period, she assisted designers during [[New York Fashion Week]].<ref name="eka"/> Once she returned to India, she worked as an intern with [[Sabyasachi Mukherjee]] during the making of [[Mani Ratnam]]'s bilingual ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010) aged 23. The film's cinematographer [[Santosh Sivan]] subsequently hired her to be the principal costume designer for his Malayalam period drama, ''[[Urumi (film)|Urumi]]'' (2011), set in 15th century Kerala. For the film, she had to dress actors including [[Vidya Balan]], [[Genelia D'Souza]] and [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] in Portuguese and Indian period costumes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2018/sep/23/15679|title=Eka Lakhani: Costume designing is almost like character designing|first=Sonal|last=Pandya|website=Cinestaan}}</ref><br />
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Impressed by her work in ''Urumi'', Mani Ratnam signed her to be the main costume designer in ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013). She also portrayed a minor role in the film as the wife of the character portrayed by [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/the-story-behind-the-tribal-costumes-in-kadals-adiye/articleshow/76194969.cms|title=The story behind the tribal costumes in Kadal's Adiye - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref> She later continued to regularly collaborate with Mani Ratnam, winning acclaim for her work for actresses [[Nithya Menen]] and [[Aditi Rao Hydari]] in ''[[O Kadhal Kanmani]]'' (2015) and ''[[Kaatru Veliyidai]]'' (2017), respectively.<ref name="eka"/> For the upcoming period drama ''[[Ponniyin Selvan (upcoming film)|Ponniyin Selvan]]'' (2022), Lakhani travelled to [[Tanjore]] temples to study sculptures, meet weavers, and understand the heritage before starting the process of designing.<ref name="vox">{{Cite web|url=https://www.voxspace.in/2020/05/10/voxtalks-with-eka-lakhani/|title=VoxTalks With Eka Lakhani: The Art Of Costume Designing In The New Age Indian Cinema|first=Siddharth|last=Naidu|date=May 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/south/eka-lakhani-opens-about-designing-costumes-mani-ratnam-s-ponniyin-selvan-522370|title=Eka Lakhani OPENS UP about designing costumes for Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan &#124; PINKVILLA|website=www.pinkvilla.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-16/mani-ratnams-ponniyin-selvan-member-eka-lakhani-reveals-interesting-answers.html|title=Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan member Eka Lakhani reveals interesting answers|date=April 7, 2020|website=Behindwoods}}</ref><br />
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Lakhani has often worked on biopics, including on films such as ''[[Sanju]]'' (2018) on [[Sanjay Dutt]] and the web series ''[[Queen (web series)|Queen]]'' (2019) on [[J. Jayalalithaa|Jayalalithaa]]. To prepare for biopics, she often met people involved on the stories to better reflect their fashion sense during the respective historical periods.<ref name="vox"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/fashion/celebrity-style/exclusive-ranbir-kapoor-knew-sanjay-dutt-and-out-sanju-s-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-417347|title=EXCLUSIVE: Ranbir Kapoor knew Sanjay Dutt in and out : Sanju's costume designer, Eka Lakhani &#124; PINKVILLA|website=www.pinkvilla.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/hindi/sanju-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-on-styling-ranbir-kapoor-for-the-biopic/videoshow/64734003.cms|title='Sanju' costume designer Eka Lakhani on styling Ranbir Kapoor for the biopic &#124; Hindi Movie News - Bollywood - Times of India|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com}}</ref><br />
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In 2019, she set up "Team E" in which senior designers work on projects under her supervision. The first project handled by Team E was the [[Madras Talkies]] production, ''[[Vaanam Kottatum]]'' (2020).<ref name="vox"/><br />
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== Notable filmography ==<br />
;As actress<br />
* ''[[Abhay (1994 film)|Abhay]]'' (1994)<br />
* ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013)<br />
* ''[[One by Two (2014 film)|One by Two]]'' (2014)<br />
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;As costume designer<br />
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* ''[[Urumi (film)|Urumi]]'' (2011)<br />
* ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013)<br />
* ''[[Ceylon (film)|Ceylon]]'' (2013)<br />
* ''[[One by Two (2014 film)|One by Two]]'' (2014)<br />
* ''[[Gulaab Gang]]'' (2014)<br />
* ''[[O Kadhal Kanmani]]'' (2015)<br />
* ''[[NH10 (film)|NH10]]'' (2015)<br />
* ''[[Crazy Cukkad Family]]'' (2015)<br />
* ''[[24 (2016 film)|24]]'' (2016)<br />
* ''[[Iru Mugan]]'' (2016)<br />
* ''[[OK Jaanu]]'' (2017)<br />
* ''[[Kaatru Veliyidai]]'' (2017)<br />
* ''[[Haseena Parkar]]'' (2017)<br />
* ''[[Welcome to New York (2018 film)|Welcome to New York]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Lust Stories]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Soorma (film)|Soorma]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Fanney Khan]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Sanju]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Chekka Chivantha Vaanam]]'' (2018)<br />
* ''[[Total Dhamaal]]'' (2019)<br />
* ''[[The Sky Is Pink]]'' (2019)<br />
* ''[[Adithya Varma]]'' (2019)<br />
* ''[[Queen (web series)|Queen]]'' (2019)<br />
* ''[[Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[Vaanam Kottatum]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[Ghost Stories (2020 film)|Ghost Stories]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[Masaba Masaba]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[V (2020 film)|V]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[Maara]]'' (2020)<br />
* ''[[99 Songs]]'' (2021)<br />
* ''[[Shershaah]]'' (2021)<br />
* ''[[Radhe Shyam]]'' (2021)<br />
* ''[[Ponniyin Selvan (upcoming film)|Ponniyin Selvan]]'' (2022)<br />
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