Madhuri's many moods
Year: 1998-99
Costume: Manish Malhotra
Makeup: Bharat Godambe
Hairstylist: Dorris Godambe
This photograph was shot on the same day as the previous photo. By now she was very confident and she wanted to shoot more.
We were looking for a change in costume but we did not have anything. There was this black material, which was actually a scrap in the studio, which she draped around. And there was fur lying on the floor that she cuddled around her arms.
Manish worked on her looks. We wanted to give her that 1960s Madonna look, so we tried to give her hairdo also a side parting and a little puff in the front. We wanted her to look glamorous. She had seen her previous photo and was very confident. I asked her to sport a crooked smile and she did justice to it.
I remember Prakash Jha had come to meet Madhuri for Mrityudand and we were selecting photographs for printing in a magazine. He was speechless! He said, 'You have done an excellent job on her.'
That photo changed the way people perceived Madhuri.