After recently designing mother and daughter looks for Madhuri Dixit for an advertisement, National Award-winning makeup, hair and prosthetic designerPreetisheel Singh, has now designed dual looks for Southern superstar Vijay for his upcoming Tamil flick Bigil.
Preetisheel, who also received rave reviews recently for
curating the looks for Ranveer
Singh as Alauddin Khilji in Padmaavat, Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor in 102 Not Out, Ayushman Khurrana in Andhadhun and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in and
as Thackeray, is
excited as the first look poster of Bigil is out.
She has good reason to be. Because Vijay’s look in the
film is unlike anything he has done before. The Southern hearththrob will be
seen in two different avatars of father and son in the film directed by Atlee
and having music by AR
Rahman.
“Hours of study have gone into building the
character designs,” says Preetisheel. “We didn’t want to lose the
authenticity of the character or miss out on the aura projected by the
legendary Vijay. Keeping this in mind, for the father’s role, we added wrinkles
around his laugh lines and on his forehead, using special-effects make-up. Along
with that, we gave him salt ‘n pepper hair which gave a classier touch.”
For his son’s character, Vijay was given “the trendy look that footballers of the current generation carry,” informs Preetisheel. She mentions that the superstar is a pleasure to work with. “Very humble and down-to-earth, Vijay not only showers trust, but patiently allows the team to work without interference. Both the actor and director put full faith in our vision and art, and that has immensely helped,” she concludes.
Apart from Bigil, Preetisheel is looking forward to many
films, including the Akshay
Kumar-starrer Housefull
4, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Panga,Nawazuddin
Siddiqui–Radhika Apte-starrer Raat Akeli Hai and Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore; for
which she has designed multiple young and old-age looks for an ensemble lead
cast.
