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Special effects prosthetist Zuby Johal shot to fame with Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and 2 and has since worked on films like Badlapur, Tumbbad, Bose: Dead/Alive, Raabta, Love Aaj Kal 2, the horror anthology Ghost Stories and the Malayalam-language Uyare. In Raabta, actor Rajkummar Rao was transformed by Johal into […]
Shape Shifters Photographed by Amit Mali. Styling by Shweta Navandar. Art direction by Mallika Chandra. Hair and make-up by Kiran Denzongpa at Feat. Artists. Models: Roshan Poulose, at Inega Management, and Giaa Singh Arora. Fashion assistant: Sarah Rajkotwala
Sculptural shoulder pads, textiles that resemble gills, amorphous metal jewellery and snaking hair extensions offer a dramatic re-imagining of the human silhouette
Rooted in an amalgamation of design and art, the technique of prosthetics and special effects, make-up occupies a niche yet imperative space in cinema; it creates what doesn’t yet exist or builds upon a subject’s features and appendages. We take a broader view of this concept and the experience of having external forms and materials attached to our bodies – the added weight, the restriction or facilitation of movement, the perception of texture – and correlate it to the world of fashion. In the face of a new way of living and being,
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Text by Shreya Dasgupta. Photographs by Parnil Vishwasrao
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