Marathi actress
Renuka Shahane who worked with Oscar-winning costume designer
Bhanu Athaiya in 1996 Marathi film 'Katha Don Ganpatravanchi', tweeted a heartfelt tribute to Bhanu Athaiya.
According to the reports, Bhanu Athaiya breathed her last on Thursday. She was 91.
Renuka tweeted "RIP Bhanu Athaiya What an amazing, committed Costume designer she was. Winner of an Oscar award, the pride of our country, yet so very humble. I had the great privilege of working with her in the Marathi film " Katha Don Ganpatravanchi"
Check out her tweet here:Many celebrities from Bollywood and Marathi industry shared a heartwarming tribute for the ace costume designer Bhanu Athaiya.
Sonali Kulkarni tweeted "Rest in peace Bhanutai
You always immersed yourself in work I’m so fortunate to have worked with you on Dr
Jabbar Patel’s
Babasaheb Ambedkar..! I’ll never forget the day when you struggled to get ‘that particular soft kapda’..झाले बहु, होतील बहु.. but you are the one "
Bhanu Athaiya started her career as a costume designer in Hindi cinema with
Guru Dutt's 1956 superhit 'C.I.D.'. She was the first Indian to win an Oscar and only Indian woman to win an
Academy Award
till date.
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