Bhanu Athaiya stands backstage, holding her Oscar, after winning the 1982 Academy Award for "Best Costume Designer" for her role in Gandhi. India’s first Oscar winner, veteran costume designer Bhanu ...

Late Indian actor Irrfan Khan and late Indian costume designer Bhanu Athaiya. (IANS photos) LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Irrfan Khan and Bhanu Athaiya were the Indian film personalities honored in the “In ...

At a time when the conversation in the country is all about design, craft, textile and art, Prinseps’ new exhibition in Goa spotlights a creator who had nailed the brief decades ago ...

India's first Oscar statuette won by costume designer Bhanu Athaiya at the 55th Annual Academy Awards in 1983 for her work in Lord Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, has made its way back to its original ...

Gold medallist from Sir JJ School of Art, only woman in Progressive Artists’ Group—Mumbai had a lasting influence on Bhanu Athaiya. A new exhibit in Goa traces the legacy of the modernist painter and ...

India’s first ever Oscar winner, costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, has died at the age of 91. Athaiya, who dressed the casts of over 100 Bollywood movies and gained international acclaim for her work on ...

Bhanumati Rajopadhye (now Athaiya), was born in Kolhapur in the year 1929. She was one of the seven children of self-taught ...

Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer who became the first Indian to win an Oscar, for Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), died at her home in Mumbai Thursday after a prolonged illness. She was 91.

The country's first Oscar winner, costume designer Bhanu Athaiya died at her home on Thursday after a prolonged illness at 91. Her daughter Radhika confirmed that she passed away peacefully in her ...