Aaj Ka MLA – 1984
Producer – Kranthi Kumar
Director – Dasari Narayan Rao
Star– Shabana Azmi
The first half of the film is in the village where she is the barber’s wife. I dressed her in simple cotton sarees and printed blouses, hair done in a plait.
In the second half, after her husband becomes the chief minister, she wears vibrant chanderi sarees with a big kumkum bindi and her hair tied in a bun. The latter was modelled on Shalini Tai who wore a big bindi all through her political career.