Manoshi Nath
Manoshi Nath is an Indian costume designer. Manoshi and her creative partner, Rushi Sharma co-founded Fools’ Paradise Designworks Pvt Ltd. The costume designer duo works extensively in the Indian film industry and are known for their attention to detail while creating authentic characters for their films. They are also known as designers who practice sustainability in Costume Design.[1] Their films have won the Filmfare Award for Best Costume Design twice: First in 2009 for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and then in 2013 for Shanghai.
Early life
[edit]Manoshi is a Bengali/Sylhety from Assam and was raised in New Delhi, where she completed her graduation. Inclined toward the arts from childhood, Manoshi apprenticed with directors as a Storyboard Artist, while still in college. She also did a brief stint in an export house where she found a perfect amalgamation of art and fabrics. Manoshi owes her technical knowledge of fabrics to her father who is a textile engineer by profession.
Career
[edit]Manoshi always wanted to work in advertising and worked with the director, Pradeep Sarkar on many TVCs and music videos. In this process, she met her creative partner Rushi Sharma in 2000, where they realized how they complemented each other's design ethos.
Manoshi and Rushi designed their first feature film with Dibakar Banerjee’s Khosla Ka Ghosla in 2006. They set up their company Fools’ Paradise in 2007, following which they went on to design costumes for Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! in 2008. They have designed character costumes for films like Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010), Shanghai (2012), Talaash (2012), Queen[2](2013), PK(2014), Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2016), Thugs of Hindostan[3] (2018), Sherni (2021), Shamshera[4] (2022) and many more.
Manoshi and Rushi started working 15 days before the shooting schedule on the film Khosla ka Ghosla. They designed the production with a limited budget, and the film is often cited as part of a trend in independent Indian cinema during the 2000s. Today, they are hired to begin designing as soon as a script is approved and the actors are chosen.
PK became the highest grossing Bollywood film of its time, with earnings of nearly 754 crore INR. The duo's design of Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Anushka Sharma in PK received nationwide applause and recognition as well as the Screen Awards for 2015. Manoshi and Rushi laid the seeds of recycling in Costume Design from this film onwards. In PK, they bought clothes off of people’s backs in the streets of Rajasthan to get the most authentic look for the parts.[5] Manoshi and Rushi have also taken extensive efforts to increase the sustainability of their creative process from start to finish. To promote ethical design, they source fabrics directly from weavers and artisans, provide employment with higher living wages to cottage industry workers while believing in the philosophy of buying local. They have also made great efforts to recycle pre-loved costumes from old film stocks. For Jayeshbhai Jordaar (2022), they travelled along the Kutch, creating supply chains for future projects like Maja Ma (2022) and more.
For their sustainability endeavors and SOP’s in Indian costume design, they were awarded the Elle Sustainability Award for Mindful Design (2023).[6]
Manoshi and Rushi have been invited by SRFTI and NIFT to mentor their students on Costume Design. They have hence ventured into creating curriculum around Fashion, Costumes and Sustainability in design.
Awards
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Filmfare Awards | Best Costume Design | Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! | Won |
| 2010 | Global Indian Film Awards | Best Costume Design | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai | Won |
| 2013 | Filmfare Awards | Best Costume Design | Shanghai | Won |
| 2013 | Filmfare Awards | Best Costume Design | Queen | Nominated |
| 2013 | Screen Awards | Best Costume Design | Queen | Won |
| 2014 | Screen Awards | Best Costume Design | PK | Won |
| 2015 | Filmfare Awards | Best Costume Design | PK | Nominated |
| 2015 | Bollywood Style Awards | Best Costume Design | Kangana Ranaut's Queen Catwalk | Won[7] |
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Natale in India |
| 2006 | Khosla Ka Ghosla |
| 2008 | Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! |
| 2010 | Love Sex Aur Dhokha |
| 2010 | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai |
| 2010 | Lafangey Parindey |
| 2010 | 10ml LOVE |
| 2011 | Chalo Dilli |
| 2011 | Chillar Party |
| 2012 | Satyamev Jayate |
| 2012 | Shanghai |
| 2012 | Talaash: The Answer Lies Within |
| 2013 | Queen |
| 2013 | Dhoom 3 |
| 2014 | Kick |
| 2014 | PK |
| 2015 | Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! |
| 2016 | Sanam Teri Kasam |
| 2016 | Azhar |
| 2017 | A Gentleman |
| 2017 | Simran |
| 2018 | Love Per Square Foot |
| 2018 | Thugs of Hindostan |
| 2018 | Noblemen |
| 2020 | Panga |
| 2020 | Gulabi Lens (short) |
| 20221 | Sherni |
| 2021 | Bell Bottom |
| 2022 | Jayeshbhai Jordaar |
| 2022 | Rashtra Kavach Om |
| 2022 | Shamshera |
| 2022 | Good Luck Jerry |
| 2022 | Cuttputlli |
| 2022 | Maja Ma |
| 2022 | Ram Setu |
| 2023 | Kakuda |
| 2026 | Raja Shivaji |
References
[edit]- ↑ "Rushi Sharma And Manoshi Nath Are Making The Wasteful Costume Design Industry Sustainable. Here's How". elle.in. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ↑ "Queen Look Test | Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Vikas Bahl | 7th Mar, 2014". YouTube. 25 February 2014.
- ↑ Panicker, Anahita (9 November 2018). "'We knew we weren't making a documentary'". The Hindu.
- ↑ "Ranbir Kapoor - Shamshera's costume designers on the challenge of dressing up Ranbir Kapoor as father and son - Telegraph India". Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ↑ "Making of 'PK' Aamir Khan's PK Character". YouTube. 29 November 2014.
- ↑ "Here Are All the Winners at the ELLE Sustainability Awards 2023 - Elle India". 27 April 2023.
- ↑ "Bollywood Style Awards 2015: Queen | Verve Magazine - India's premier luxury lifestyle women's magazine". Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
External links
[edit]- Manoshi Nath at IMDb