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Analyzing the Costumes of Gangubai Kathiawadi
Dreamy would be the last word to describe a film on prostitution and its riotous path of calling it a respectable profession, yet Bhansali is considered to be a romantic.
On his dreamy appeal to the complete film, Gangubai Kathiawadi deviates itself from the general outlook of the film being a conventional documentary, rather a narration of how a brothel worker turns a leader through her strengths stemmed in a passion for acting.
The following observations are an attempt to bring how costume has context and depth when creating and displaying a character. The dress styles, accessorization and depicting distinctions within time periods, all are hinted through the costumes each character wears in a scene. For the analysis, a major review is written on the characters Gangubai and Raziya, both having a major role in deviating the plot and adding dimensions to multiple folds in the movie.
Kamathipura Women and Sheetal’s View
As a woman who was just 5”1, wearing the colour white gave her an immense power and a distinct look within the crowd of Kamathipura, and Sheetal Sharma, the costume designer for the film, kept this in mind while creating the character of…
