Roshni Dinaker (pronounced: ''rɔːʃnɪ ðɪnɛkɛr'') is an Indian

costume designer A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage production or television show. The role of the costume designer is to create the characters' outfits or costumes and balance the scenes with texture and colour, etc. The costume ...

and filmmaker, who has worked in

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, and

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film industries as designer, and her directorial debut with the

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film '' My Story'' in 2018.

Personal life

Dinaker was born in

Madikeri Madikeri is a hill station town in Madikeri taluk and headquarters of Kodagu district in Karnataka, India. Etymology Madikeri was known as ''Muddu Raja Keri'', which meant Mudduraja's town, was named after the prominent Haleri king Muddura ...

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, India as the daughter of Tomy Mathew and Asha Tomy. Her father hails from

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. She was educated in

Bangalore Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. She is married to Dinaker O. V. and have two childrenAdithya and Aarush Dinaker.

Career

Dinaker worked in the corporate world before entering the film industry. Dinaker started her career in the film industry as a

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n language films, since 2002. She was inspired by the costume designer

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. Her debut as a costume designer was in the Kannada movie Shubham. She won

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as Best Costume Designer (2006–2007) for her work in ''

Kallarali Hoovagi ''Kallarali Hoovagi'' ( kn, ಕಲ್ಲರಳಿ ಹೂವಾಗಿ) is a 2006 Indian Kannada historical drama romance film directed by T. S. Nagabharana, based on a novel of the same name written by B. L. Venu. Set in 1772, during the reign of ...

'', directed by

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. She has worked in more than 50 films as a costume designer. She made her directorial debut with the

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titled '' My Story'', starring

Prithviraj Sukumaran Prithviraj Sukumaran (born 16 October 1982) is an Indian actor, director, producer and playback singer primarily working in Malayalam cinema. He has also done Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. He acted in more than 100 films in a variety of rol ...

and Parvathy. Filming began on 1 November 2017 in

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, and the movie was released on 6 July 2018. Dinaker was also the costume designer and producer of the film. In 2018, she reported that she was working on a film called Metamorphosis, which is about three women. As of October 2019, Dinaker was directing a Malayalam action film, titled 2 Stroke. She is the first woman in the Malayalam film industry to direct an action film.

Filmography

The following is a non-exhaustive list of films that Dinaker worked on:

References

External links

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