In the popular Kannada film, Pragathi Shetty, an actor, designer, and wife of the film’s director Rishab Shetty, discusses her dresses.
Entertainer creator Pragathi Shetty was the outfit fashioner for her better half, entertainer movie producer Rishab Shetty’s film hit Kannada film Kantara.She now says that her mother owned one of the sarees she wore as the queen in the movie.
Rishab played the title character in Kantara, and important roles were played by Pramod Shetty, Sapthami Gowda, Achyuth Kumar, and Kishore.Kantara is the highest-grossing Kannada film of all time, second only to KGF 2, and is based on regional folklore and rituals. It was made on a modest budget of 16 crore rupees.
Pragathi told News18, “Yes, I have played the role of the queen that comes at the beginning of the movie.” She also discussed the dresses she wore for the role.Each of my three sarees has a story to tell.Because the role is of a different era of a queen, I wanted a particular material and color that were not currently popular but were still vibrant.One saree, the yellow one is a Banarasi saree with a creative pallu as the feature.It had to be one that was 50 years old, but it isn’t.Fortunately, it can’t be seen on camera.
She added, “The second saree, a maroon-coloured one is my mom’s wedding saree. And the third one is of an old woman whom I know. The whole sequence of king and queen comes for roughly 2 minutes on screen but was shot for 15 days – day and night at a stretch. Ranvith and Radhya, my kids play the same role (the queen’s kids) in the movie.”
