For Sonali, Pooja was by no means merely a personality she portrayed. There was an instinctive connection between the actress and the younger, candid and effortlessly charming lady she delivered to life. “I’ve Pooja’s humour. I’ve Pooja’s ease,” Sonali recollects in an unique dialog, reflecting on the qualities she discovered most naturally inside the character.
25 years of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’: Sonali Kulkarni on remodeling into Pooja
Whereas Pooja’s persona got here instinctively to Sonali, her now-iconic look was rigorously formed by the movie’s artistic workforce. Sonali credit costume designer Arjun Bhasin and Adhuna, who designed her look, for giving Pooja her distinctive visible id. Sonali shares, “The glamour quotient was added by Arjun Bhasin, our costume designer. The seems had been designed by Adhuna. She reduce my hair, and that was one thing that basically added Pooja to me as a result of I had lengthy hair. In all my earlier movies, I had sported lengthy hair, besides in Daayra, the place I needed to put on a cropped boy-cut wig. However slicing my hair actually modified my persona, and that’s positively to the credit score of Adhuna and my whole look design workforce.”
The transformation went past only a coiffure. Pooja’s simple vogue, vibrant wardrobe and up to date aesthetic grew to become an integral a part of the character and, in some ways, launched Sonali to a brand new visible language.
What made the ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ character so particular
“I vibed properly with Pooja. I understood her as a result of she is a frank particular person, somebody who would not lie. She is youthful and truthful,” Sonali says. “Pooja is somebody who opens up shortly, and he or she tells the truth- that she has a boyfriend. She is not beating across the bush. She is not hiding something from the brand new particular person, Sameer, performed by Saif, whom she meets.”
It was this frankness and emotional honesty that Sonali discovered significantly relatable. Pooja doesn’t overcomplicate her relationships or disguise behind pretence. She is direct about who she is and what she feels, a top quality that Sonali believes helped her join with the character on an instinctive degree.
“She comes throughout very frankly, and that’s the a part of Pooja that I may join with,” she provides.
Sonali Kulkarni says she learnt vogue from her on-screen persona Pooja
Twenty-five years later, Sonali additionally seems again at Pooja as a personality who was forward of her time in the best way she dressed and carried herself. The movie introduced a way of freshness to the best way younger Indians had been represented on display — from vibrant clothes and hair to relaxed, snug silhouettes.
“Aside from that, I liked being Pooja. There have been recent colors that ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ introduced — within the sense of the hair color, the costume colors. Males had been seen sporting vibrant trousers, women had been sporting simple, snug clothes and that is one thing Pooja helped me be taught,” Sonali says.
“In a approach, you possibly can say I learnt vogue from Pooja,” she concludes.
About ‘Dil Chahta Hai’
Directed by Farhan Akhtar, ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ starred Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, and Akshaye Khanna. Launched on August 10, 2001, the movie continues to resonate with the youth for its revolutionary coming-of-age plot.
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