Look Design


Heya Readers!

This was the part I was most excited about as we had to design a very dramatic yet realistic look for our protagonist, which was being essayed by Mustafa Babar. What we had in mind was Johnny Depp’s eye makeup in Edward Scissorhands (1990), which was basically baggy and had very prominent dark circles. As one can see in a picture below:


 So when we got to set, our exceptionally gifted makeup artist, Zainab had a conversation with the entire team as well as Mustafa himself to start doing the makeup, particularly for the eyes and the lips, to make him look depressed and alienated.





And finally, we had the look we wanted and we were ready to film!


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