Designing Miss Dixit
Devdas
The chocolate brown ghagra choli that she wore in the song Chalak chalak was simpler compared to her other outfits in the movie. The song starts with her in the temple, and she is at a point in life where she wants to give up everything for Devdas. So we wanted to keep the look very simple. We did not want yellows or reds. We chose a dark colour.
Even her jewellery here was minimal. Except for the bangles.
The ghagra had loads of fabric -- about 20 metres -- because I did not want to restrict her movements. She draped it in the traditional Bengali way.