National Award-winning makeup and prosthetic designer Preetisheel Singh, the woman behind many actor’s transformations for their roles has once again created some incredible looks for two upcoming films. The John Abraham-starrer RAW and Vivek Anand Oberoi-starrer PM Narendra Modi see the two actors completely in character with their complete look. Both movies, which rely heavily on get-ups and prosthetics have certainly wowed the fans from the very first posters and trailers!
Recently, both films have come out with videos about how Preetisheel Singh created and accomplished the actor’s film characters full look.
First we have Vivek Anand’s incredible 9 different looks for his character through the years!
This special behind-the-scenes video of the Modi biopic was released on YouTube. It began with Vivek sharing that prosthetics required almost five-six hours to be applied on his face and could be used only for the same duration while shooting.
In the video Vivek remarks, “We managed to stretch our shoots from six hours to twelve hours, and from twelve to sometimes even eighteen hours, and the make-up and prosthetics held up. Prosthetics are internationally famous, par ussmein humne apna desi tadka laga hi diya.”
We also hear that Director Omung Kumar and producer Sandip Ssingh reveal that at one point during the look test, they thought of dropping the idea as they felt, the looks didn’t match so well. Which is when Preetisheel tried a new technique that totally worked out.
Then we have John Abraham’s amazing looks in Robbie Grewal’s spy thriller Romeo Akbar Walter (RAW). The film has John taking up several get-ups to do a secret service officer’s job on alien soil, and he will be seen masquerading as a Pakistani local in several scenes in the film. A tribute to spies, RAW is set in 1971, when India and Pakistan were on the verge of a war.
John has released a video centered around one of his most difficult looks, where he takes on the avatar of a bearded old man.
Meanwhile, Preetisheel is also elated for the glowing feedback she has been receiving for the Qasim Khallow film Gone Kesh released last week. A light-hearted take on alopecia, Gone Kesh has the heroine Shweta Tripathi braving out her fear and conquering societal norms of beauty.
It can be noted here that Preetisheel gathered accolades last year with her work for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat, Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out, Anubhav Sinha’s Mulk and Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun. She began this year by curating the look for Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray in the movie Thackeray directed by Abhijit Panse and presented by Sanjay Raut.
We cannot wait to see what she does next!
