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Bhanu Athaiya (née Rajopadhye; 28 April 1929 – 15 October 2020) was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Award.
Oct 16, 2020 · 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...
Oct 15, 2020 · Celebrated Bollywood costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, India's first Oscar winner, has died at the age of 91, her family says. She was bedridden in recent years after being diagnosed...
Oct 16, 2020 · Yesterday one of Indian film’s true stars Bhanu Athaiya passed away at age 91. She had been unwell for the past eight years and became bedridden for the last three.
Apr 22, 2021 · Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye was born on April 28, 1929, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, known as a city of the arts, in British India. She was the third of seven children of Annasaheb...
Oct 16, 2020 · Bhanu Athaiya (1929-2020): India’s first Oscar winner, creator of hit Bollywood moments and costumes for 60 years. Bhanu Athaiya passed away in the early hours of Thursday in Mumbai. She had been diagnosed with meningioma in 2012 but had continued to work; her last costume design was for the Marathi film Nagrik in 2014.
Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya has died at the age of 91. She was India’s first Academy Award winner and won the prestigious award for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi.
