Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar, starring Ranveer Singh, Akshaye Khanna, Arjun Rampal, among others, has become the talk of the town. Despite several controversies, the spy thriller is already eyeing the Rs 200 crore mark at the box office. In a recent interview, the character and prosthetic designer of Dhurandhar, Preetisheel Singh, opened up about Ranveer’s look in the film and shared that it would take him two hours to get into the complete look. She also opened up about how Akshaye’s look reminded him of his father, superstar Vinod Khanna.
During a conversation with The Hollywood Report India, she shared that it would take Ranveer some time to get into his look. “Roughly, it would take 1.5 hours to prepare. If there was bloodwork, with scars and bruising, maybe two hours. But time was always of the essence. Over the years, in the film, his character grows his beard, and does not cut his hair, so I used a lot of extensions and wigs – for both beard and hair – because we were going back and forth between the looks while shooting,” she said.
She further added, “Dhurandhar expands over a certain time period, and I wanted to track that journey from getting into the ‘spy look’, where he doesn’t have access to money, doesn’t even have a house to stay in, being on the streets, to entering the gang. I wanted to show the initial rugged rawness, where he is not grooming himself every day, with unkempt grungy hair, tied into a ponytail sometimes.”
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On the other hand, while working on Akshaye’s character Rehman Dakait, the prosthetic designer shared that the actor was reminded of his late father when he looked at himself in the mirror. “I did his look in Chhaava as well, turning him into Aurangzeb. Of course, he has a lot of experience working with wigs. I wanted to refrain from how he has already been shown and wanted his charisma to come across,” Preetisheel recalled.
She continued, “There is a suaveness in his character, where his mere presence commands attention. He doesn’t need to say much. I gave him soft waves, and we showed the receding hairline. It is not a full head of hair. I remember doing the trial, he was looking at himself in the mirror, telling me he was reminded of his late father, Vinod Khanna.”
Besides Ranveer Singh and Akshaye Khanna, the film also features Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, R Madhavan, Sara Arjun, and Rakesh Bedi.
