Overview

• The night before the Devdas climax shoot at Filmistan, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali requested a longer sari pallu so it could catch fire on camera.
• Lulla immediately contacted a fabric vendor at 11 pm and organized her embroidery team to extend and reinforce the borders.
• Her team completed two 13-metre saris by 8:30 am, allowing Aishwarya Rai to wear the new ensemble for the final scene.
• Bhansali’s 2002 film Devdas starred Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Madhuri Dixit and became a landmark Bollywood period drama.
• Costume designers Neeta Lulla, Abu Jani, Reza Shariffi and Sandeep Khosla won a National Film Award for their opulent work on Devdas.