Dolly Ahluwalia


Dolly Ahluwalia is an Indian actress and costume designer who was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2001 for costume design. She has won 3 Filmfare Awards and three National Film Awards, for Best Costume Design for Bandit Queen and Haider, and then as Best Supporting Actress for Vicky Donor, which is also her best known role as an actress.

Career

She is alumni of National School of Drama graduating in 1979. Ahluwalia started her career by designing costumes for theatre. Thereafter she started film career with Shekhar Kapur's Bandit Queen in 1993, which got her first National Film Award for Best Costume Design. Thereafter she designed for notable directors like Vishal Bhardwaj in The Blue Umbrella, Omkara, Blood Brothers, Kaminey and Haider, with Deepa Mehta in Water and Midnight's Children. Besides working with mainstream Bollywood films like Love Aaj Kal, Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana and with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

Awards

AwardCategoryFilm
43rd National Film AwardsBest Costume DesignBandit Queen
Sangeet Natak Akademi AwardCostume Design
60th National Film AwardsBest Supporting ActressVicky Donor
55th Filmfare Awards
59th Filmfare Awards		Filmfare Award for Best Costume DesignOmkara
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
60th Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Award for Best Costume DesignHaider
62nd National Film AwardsBest Costume DesignHaider

Filmography

Costume Designer

YearFilm
1993Bandit Queen
2006Omkara
2005Water
2005The Blue Umbrella
2007Aaja Nachle
2007Blood Brothers
2009Love Aaj Kal
2009Kaminey
2012Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
2012Midnight's Children
2013Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
2014Haider

Actress

YearFilm / Television
1995Amma and Family
2003Mudda – The Issue
2005Yahaan
2005Water
2005The Blue Umbrella
2009Aloo Chaat
2011Ek Noor
2012Vicky Donor
2012Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana
2013Saadi Love Story
2013Bajatey Raho
2013Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
2019Badnaam Gali
2019Axone
2020Doordarshan