Best Production Design
Knocking it out of the park once again, let's just get on with it then; shall we?
Vandana Kataria for Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Complementing the costuming, Vandana Kataria's work on DBB is a notch above her other much more understated pieces. Her collaborations have bore fruit with Dibakar Banerjee in unexpected ways.
There's a certain flavor to Gogi Arora's [Rawal] den in Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! or to the dank dingy room where porn is shot for Joginder [Hashmi] in Shanghai compared to the clean cut and simple home lived in by Krishnan [Deol].
All these places evoke a character that makes it easier to breath into them and their world.
Kataria plays at another level, on a more noticeable platform; a period film with noir elements. Bakshy is refined by her intuitive choice and accurate understanding of detail. Detail is important, it's vastly underrated just as is production design.
The sets to props to artistic elements in general contain an essence of Kolkata but also play well to the genres it straddles in. Character is intricate and in this case, there's a lot she plays with specifically Dr. Ankul Guha's [Kabi] male hostel standing out as an equally intriguing layout and a spectre like quality that plays finely to the tense finale.
Vandana Kataria builds the base for a top notch film and this is her wholly deserved reward.
With two wins, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! might not be a top contender, but it has left a great impact.
Up Next: The final cut of the film is the final film!...HIndie Award for Best Editing.
'Nuff Said
Aneesh Raikundalia
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