Urmila Matondkar’s sarees in Satya cost ’10 times’ more than all other actors’ costumes put together: Ram Gopal Varma

Manoj Bajpayee said that he visited a shop in Bandra to purchase his costumes for the movie Satya, while Shefali Shah remembered wearing used sarees.

Satya completed 25 years of its release on Monday.

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Ram Gopal Varma’s cult film Satya completed 25 years today and continues to be celebrated as one of the most iconic films of its time. Actors Manoj Bajpayee, Saurabh Shukla, and Shefali Shah recently shared the hilarious stories behind the arrangements of their costumes for the film.

In an interview with Film Companion, talking about his costume, Bajpayee said, “Now things are so organised, the costume designers and all that. Ramu asked me to just go to his production person and take some money. So I went to Hill Road, Bandra. I found this very small place and I wanted something very flamboyant. I bought about 20 shirts. I wanted that kind of colorfulness and the flamboyance. But in Rs 20,000 rupees my costume was done.

RGV chimed in, “I doubt if it was more than 2000.”

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Shefali Shah also spoke about her costume and said, “I remember them getting me sarees, and I did not want new sarees. I told them to just get me used sarees. I even wore my own saree for a dinner sequence. I even wore my own jewellery. My grandmother was a Maharashtrian, so I had that advantage (Maharashtrian jewellery).”

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Saurabh Shukla quipped that his costume was the most-expensive one and added, “My costume came from Tamil Nadu. I had a lungi. It was a Brahmin lungi which came from Tamil Nadu. It was the most expensive costume. It was Rs 3500.”

RGV added, “I don’t know about the individual costs, but for sure Urmila’s was 10 times than all of them put together.” Urmila Matondkar’s costumes were by ace designer Manish Malhotra.

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