Roshni Dinaker (pronounced: ''rɔːʃnɪ ðɪnɛkɛr'') is an Indian
costume designer
A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...
and filmmaker, who has worked in
Kannada
Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...
,
Tamil
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, and
Telugu film industries as designer, and her directorial debut with the
Malayalam
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film ''
My Story'' in 2018.
Personal life
Dinaker was born in
Madikeri
Madikeri (), earlier called as Mercara is city and headquarters of Kodagu district in the Karnataka state of India. It is recognised as one of the world's eight "hottest hotspots" of biological diversity and is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
,
Kodagu district
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, India as the daughter of Tomy Mathew and Asha Tomy. Her father hails from
Ramapuram, Kottayam in
Kerala
Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile ...
. She was educated in
Bangalore
Bengaluru, also known as Bangalore (List of renamed places in India#Karnataka, its official name until 1 November 2014), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the southern States and union territories of India, Indian state of Kar ...
. She is married to Dinaker O. V. and have two childrenAdithya and Aarush Dinaker.
Career
Dinaker worked in the corporate world before entering the film industry.
Dinaker started her career in the film industry as a
costume designer
A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costum ...
in
South India
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n language films, since 2002. She was inspired by the costume designer
Bhanu Athaiya
Bhanu Athaiya (née Rajopadhye; 28 April 192915 October 2020) was an Indian costume designer and painter. She was the first Indian to win an Academy Awards, Academy Award. Alongside being Bollywood's most iconic costume designer, she had a his ...
.
Her debut as a costume designer was in the Kannada movie Shubham. She won
Karnataka State Film Awards
Karnataka State Film Awards are the most notable and prestigious film awards given for Kannada film industry in Karnataka, India. These are considered the highest awards for Kannada language films. They are given annually by the Government ...
as Best Costume Designer (2006–2007) for her work in ''
Kallarali Hoovagi
''Kallarali Hoovagi'' () is a 2006 Indian Kannada historical drama romance film directed by T. S. Nagabharana, based on a novel of the same name written by B. L. Venu. Set in 1772, during the reign of Madakari Nayaka, the last ruler of Chitrad ...
'', directed by
T. S. Nagabharana
Talakadu Srinivasaiah Nagabharana (born 23 January 1953), commonly known as T. S. Nagabharana, is an Indian film director, in the Kannada film industry and a pioneer of parallel cinema. He is one of the few film directors to have straddled th ...
. She has worked in more than 50 films as a costume designer. She made her directorial debut with the
Malayalam film
Malayalam cinema, also referred to as Mollywood, is a segment of Indian cinema dedicated to producing films in the Malayalam language, primarily spoken in Kerala and the Lakshadweep islands. It encompasses both the mainstream film industry ...
titled ''
My Story'', starring
Prithviraj Sukumaran
Prithviraj Sukumaran (Help:IPA/Malayalam, /pr̩t̪ʰʋiɾaːd͡ʒ/; born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, producer, director, and playback singer who primarily works in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil cinema, Tamil, Bollywood, Hin ...
and
Parvathy. Filming began on 1 November 2017 in
Portugal
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, and the movie was released on 6 July 2018. Dinaker was also the costume designer and producer of the film.
In 2018, she reported that she was working on a film called Metamorphosis, which is about three women.
As of October 2019, Dinaker was directing a Malayalam action film, titled 2 Stroke.
She is the first woman in the
Malayalam film industry
Malayalam cinema, also referred to as Mollywood, is a segment of Indian cinema dedicated to producing films in the Malayalam language, primarily spoken in Kerala and the Lakshadweep islands. It encompasses both the mainstream film industry a ...
to direct an action film.
Filmography
The following is a non-exhaustive list of films that Dinaker worked on:
References
External links
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Film directors from Bengaluru
Indian women film directors
Malayalam film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Kodagu district
Women artists from Karnataka
21st-century Indian people
21st-century Indian women artists
Women costume designers
Indian costume designers
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