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	'''Eka Lakhani''' is an Indian fashion costume designer, who has worked in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries. After beginning her career as an intern on the sets of ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010), she has become director [[Mani Ratnam]]'s costume designer for his films since 2013.<ref name="eka">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/loved-nithya-menens-clothes-ok-kanmani-meet-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-97971\|title=Loved Nithya Menen's clothes in 'OK Kanmani'? Meet costume designer Eka Lakhani\|date=March 8, 2019\|website=The News Minute}}</ref> She has also worked in projects by directors [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[Karan Johar]] and [[Gautham Vasudev Menon\|Gautham Menon]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/designers/costume-designer-eka-lakhani-believes-costume-is-an-important-part-of-a-film/articleshow/77034542.cms\|title=Costume designer Eka Lakhani believes costume is an important part of a film - Times of India\|website=The Times of India}}</ref>		'''Eka Lakhani''' is an Indian fashion costume [[designer]], who has worked in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries. After beginning her career as an intern on the sets of ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010), she has become director [[Mani Ratnam]]'s costume designer for his films since 2013.<ref name="eka">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/loved-nithya-menens-clothes-ok-kanmani-meet-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-97971\|title=Loved Nithya Menen's clothes in 'OK Kanmani'? Meet costume designer Eka Lakhani\|date=March 8, 2019\|website=The News Minute}}</ref> She has also worked in projects by directors [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[Karan Johar]] and [[Gautham Vasudev Menon\|Gautham Menon]].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/designers/costume-designer-eka-lakhani-believes-costume-is-an-important-part-of-a-film/articleshow/77034542.cms\|title=Costume designer Eka Lakhani believes costume is an important part of a film - Times of India\|website=The Times of India}}</ref>

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'''Eka Lakhani''' is an Indian fashion costume designer, who has worked in the Hindi, Tamil and Telugu film industries. After beginning her career as an intern on the sets of ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010), she has become director [[Mani Ratnam]]'s costume designer for his films since 2013.<ref name="eka">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/loved-nithya-menens-clothes-ok-kanmani-meet-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-97971|title=Loved Nithya Menen's clothes in 'OK Kanmani'? Meet costume designer Eka Lakhani|date=March 8, 2019|website=The News Minute}}</ref> She has also worked in projects by directors [[Rajkumar Hirani]], [[Karan Johar]] and [[Gautham Vasudev Menon|Gautham Menon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/fashion/designers/costume-designer-eka-lakhani-believes-costume-is-an-important-part-of-a-film/articleshow/77034542.cms|title=Costume designer Eka Lakhani believes costume is an important part of a film - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>

== Career ==
Lakhani studied fashion design at [[SNDT Women's University]], [[Mumbai]] for three years, and then spent a year at [[Fashion Institute of Technology]], [[New York City]]. During the period, she assisted designers during [[New York Fashion Week]].<ref name="eka"/> Once she returned to India, she worked as an intern with [[Sabyasachi Mukherjee]] during the making of [[Mani Ratnam]]'s bilingual ''[[Raavan]]'' (2010) aged 23. The film's cinematographer [[Santosh Sivan]] subsequently hired her to be the principal costume designer for his Malayalam period drama, ''[[Urumi (film)|Urumi]]'' (2011), set in 15th century Kerala. For the film, she had to dress actors including [[Vidya Balan]], [[Genelia D'Souza]] and [[Tabu (actress)|Tabu]] in Portuguese and Indian period costumes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2018/sep/23/15679|title=Eka Lakhani: Costume designing is almost like character designing|first=Sonal|last=Pandya|website=Cinestaan}}</ref>

Impressed by her work in ''Urumi'', Mani Ratnam signed her to be the main costume designer in ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013). She also portrayed a minor role in the film as the wife of the character portrayed by [[Arjun Sarja|Arjun]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tamil/movies/news/the-story-behind-the-tribal-costumes-in-kadals-adiye/articleshow/76194969.cms|title=The story behind the tribal costumes in Kadal's Adiye - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref> She later continued to regularly collaborate with Mani Ratnam, winning acclaim for her work for actresses [[Nithya Menen]] and [[Aditi Rao Hydari]] in ''[[O Kadhal Kanmani]]'' (2015) and ''[[Kaatru Veliyidai]]'' (2017), respectively.<ref name="eka"/> For the upcoming period drama ''[[Ponniyin Selvan (upcoming film)|Ponniyin Selvan]]'' (2022), Lakhani travelled to [[Tanjore]] temples to study sculptures, meet weavers, and understand the heritage before starting the process of designing.<ref name="vox">{{Cite web|url=https://www.voxspace.in/2020/05/10/voxtalks-with-eka-lakhani/|title=VoxTalks With Eka Lakhani: The Art Of Costume Designing In The New Age Indian Cinema|first=Siddharth|last=Naidu|date=May 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/south/eka-lakhani-opens-about-designing-costumes-mani-ratnam-s-ponniyin-selvan-522370|title=Eka Lakhani OPENS UP about designing costumes for Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan | PINKVILLA|website=www.pinkvilla.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindwoods.com/tamil-movies-cinema-news-16/mani-ratnams-ponniyin-selvan-member-eka-lakhani-reveals-interesting-answers.html|title=Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan member Eka Lakhani reveals interesting answers|date=April 7, 2020|website=Behindwoods}}</ref>

Lakhani has often worked on biopics, including on films such as ''[[Sanju]]'' (2018) on [[Sanjay Dutt]] and the web series ''[[Queen (web series)|Queen]]'' (2019) on [[J. Jayalalithaa|Jayalalithaa]]. To prepare for biopics, she often met people involved on the stories to better reflect their fashion sense during the respective historical periods.<ref name="vox"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinkvilla.com/fashion/celebrity-style/exclusive-ranbir-kapoor-knew-sanjay-dutt-and-out-sanju-s-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-417347|title=EXCLUSIVE: Ranbir Kapoor knew Sanjay Dutt in and out : Sanju's costume designer, Eka Lakhani | PINKVILLA|website=www.pinkvilla.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/hindi/sanju-costume-designer-eka-lakhani-on-styling-ranbir-kapoor-for-the-biopic/videoshow/64734003.cms|title='Sanju' costume designer Eka Lakhani on styling Ranbir Kapoor for the biopic | Hindi Movie News - Bollywood - Times of India|website=timesofindia.indiatimes.com}}</ref>

In 2019, she set up "Team E" in which senior designers work on projects under her supervision. The first project handled by Team E was the [[Madras Talkies]] production, ''[[Vaanam Kottatum]]'' (2020).<ref name="vox"/>

== Notable filmography ==
;As actress
* ''[[Abhay (1994 film)|Abhay]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013)
* ''[[One by Two (2014 film)|One by Two]]'' (2014)

;As costume designer
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* ''[[Urumi (film)|Urumi]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Kadal (2013 film)|Kadal]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Ceylon (film)|Ceylon]]'' (2013)
* ''[[One by Two (2014 film)|One by Two]]'' (2014)
* ''[[Gulaab Gang]]'' (2014)
* ''[[O Kadhal Kanmani]]'' (2015)
* ''[[NH10 (film)|NH10]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Crazy Cukkad Family]]'' (2015)
* ''[[24 (2016 film)|24]]'' (2016)
* ''[[Iru Mugan]]'' (2016)
* ''[[OK Jaanu]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Kaatru Veliyidai]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Haseena Parkar]]'' (2017)
* ''[[Welcome to New York (2018 film)|Welcome to New York]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Lust Stories]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Soorma (film)|Soorma]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Fanney Khan]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Sanju]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Chekka Chivantha Vaanam]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Total Dhamaal]]'' (2019)
* ''[[The Sky Is Pink]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Adithya Varma]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Queen (web series)|Queen]]'' (2019)
* ''[[Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo]]'' (2020)
* ''[[Vaanam Kottatum]]'' (2020)
* ''[[Ghost Stories (2020 film)|Ghost Stories]]'' (2020)
* ''[[Masaba Masaba]]'' (2020)
* ''[[V (2020 film)|V]]'' (2020)
* ''[[Maara]]'' (2020)
* ''[[99 Songs]]'' (2021)
* ''[[Shershaah]]'' (2021)
* ''[[Radhe Shyam]]'' (2021)
* ''[[Ponniyin Selvan (upcoming film)|Ponniyin Selvan]]'' (2022)
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== References ==
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