The prodigy of miniature artBhanu Athaiya (Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye) started out as a painter. In Sir J. J.’s school, ...

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 with a brain tumour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer who became the first Indian to win an Oscar, for Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), died ...

Athaiya, a costume designer on more than 100 films, won the award in 1983 for her work on “Gandhi.” By Anita Gates This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people ...

Veteran actress Zeenat Aman recently shared a heartfelt Instagram post reflecting on her collaboration with the late costume designer Bhanu Athaiya. Known for pushing boundaries with her portrayal of ...

Indian cinema has given several gems to the world, but we have been unable to win an Academy Award in the acting and direction categories. However, India is no country of slouches, the nation has won ...

MUMBAI: Alarmed by the theft of Rabindranath Tagore‘s Nobel medal recently, Mumbai-based Bhanu Athaiya, who won best costume design for Richard Attenborough‘s multiple award-winning Gandhi at the 55th ...

“Bhanu was a true blue designer. What we have now are mere stylists,” said Zeenat Aman, the sassy seductress of the Hindi cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, at the launch of the exhibition, Bharat Through ...

When costume designer Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Oscar, on accepting the honour for the film Gandhi, she said, “Thank you Academy and thank you Sir Richard Attenborough for ...

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.