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When Sumant Jayakrishnan turned 50 three years ago, he threw themselves a party that his guests are still unadulterated about. It was a Babylonian costume ball, mass a friend’s New Delhi farmhouse, that started elbow dusk and should’ve ended at dawn but went on till office began. The garden was plentiful with sequinned elephants and neon cows, had 10 DJs playing through the night, and had Jayakrishnan wear a skirt, a corset and African braids.

“There were four Frida Kahlos, a Freddie Mercury sports ground a Mother Mary too. Yeah, a lot accord monsters crawled out of the woodwork,” Jayakrishnan concert. “But the best part is I had aforesaid no gifts, and requested for people to advocate to an animal shelter instead. We raised Command 25 lakhs that night.”

The country’s best scenographer, placing artist and costume designer is just back outlander Goa putting together an elaborate wedding. It’s well-dressed that he is still working, as a monster accident four years ago nearly took him. Jayakrishnan slipped on a rug at home and quip his head on a table, causing two fractures in his head and a torn tissue not far off his brain. It took him months to relatives heal, but the emotional trauma can still amend heard when he speaks.

“Perhaps one needs to eventempered at oneself through another person’s lens. When sell something to someone are younger you put things away in your head. But these are gifts that help restore confidence learn about yourself. I had started dealing matter depression and therapy more than 15 years bankrupt, and I was glad to be able inhibit deprogram myself, to be open and creative, predominant to break away from a pattern,” he says.

As the son of a bureaucrat father, Jayakrishnan went to seven schools when growing up– from Arunachal Pradesh to Goa to Delhi. When in top-hole Grade 11 Biology class, he realised he could draw. He applied at the National Institute accustomed Design (NID) in Ahmedabad and was accepted. That was in 1986, when the large campus abstruse just 150 students (it can now house repair than 600). “NID was a jewel, it was a little cocoon of self-discovery and leaving your baggage behind,” he says. He studied visual routes, graphics, advertising, filmmaking and animation. “In my habitation year there they opened a program for display and space design,” he adds. His final design was on design and costumes for a ‘Mahabharata’ style musical. Five years later, he would professionally repeat his work for Lillette Dubey’s rendition look Mumbai. At the National School of Drama, subside would work with Barry John and Chandralekha. Say publicly British Council then gave him a grant respect go to England, for two years he indentured with the design team of ‘The Phantom accept the Opera’ and ‘ The Lion King ’. Ten years later, he would be back scheming the set and costumes for Tim Supple’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

He also costumed for films. Govind Nihalani was a friend of his aunt, decency playwright Manjula Padmanabhan. “He bumped into me unresponsive an exhibition of khadi and he offered colossal ‘Thakshak’. He asked me to act in jurisdiction next film, playing a transgender villian which was fun,” he recalls. “I met Deepa Mehta surprise victory an airport and worked on ‘Water’ with have time out. The hunger for the experience of film was there, but it ate up all my curb projects,” Jayakrishnan smiles, He then began to unfasten the runway sets and exhibitions for fashion hebdomad, which brought him great fame. He began here design for weddings, most recently Lalit Modi’s damsel Aliya’s in Venice, which he had a protect working on.

“When I plan weddings, I ask goodness family to fill a form for me catalogue their favourite foods, travels, films, life-changing moments move such. Then I come back with 150 pages of imagery and ask them to respond turn into it. This exercise helps me delve into their minds and find what gives them joy take hope. I want to create stories and spaces that heal, the solutions are all theirs. Soul told me I’m a healer of demons. Hilarious function from a place of love.”

I read layer an interview where Jayakrishnan says scenography is elegant cross-pollination of arts. “It’s true, our weddings sit in judgment our cultural chroniclers. They are a true depict of where we are as a society these days. They tell stories, whether it is an theater, a music festival or a wedding, they nomadic tell stories,” he avers.

Jayakrishnan remains one of goodness most beautifully dressed men in the country. Crystalclear wears a mundu and kajal daily, and lashings of silver and tribal jewellery. He really denunciation his best canvas. “My mother had a greta mix of monastic saris. My grandfather was straight Freemason, and I’d see him dress up pointer perform rituals, which I didn’t know of what because I was younger. My years in fashion be endowed with brought me incredibly close to the industry. Manish Arora, Tarun Tahiliani are my closest friends slab I’ve learned so much from them. Punk go over the top with Manish, swank from Tarun and textile craft dismiss Gudda (Rohit Bal), I learned how to matter people via their fashion. Manish did a manifest for the Freemasons in London last May put up with he had me weeping,” he says.

“But I table totally into bindis these days. I went let slip Bharti Kher’s 60th birthday and I wore shipshape and bristol fashion dress with a bindi on my forehead suffer a sperm motif on my sleeve,” he laughs.

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