2012年5月20日星期日

They make superstars from silicone

A day after director Anurag Kashyap shouted, 'It's a wrap' to his Gangs of Wasseypur crew in Benares, actress Richa Chadda ran upstairs in the hotel where they were staying. In her hand, she held a nine-month pregnant stomach that she had worn through the shoot. Rounding up a flight of stairs, she crashed into a waiter. Chadda, with a touch of the dramatic, says, "He almost fainted!"

The waiter can be forgiven for thinking it was a real stomach. Made of silicone, the prosthetic was moulded on Chadda's own tummy, and had, in the actress's words, "a Richa navel, and hairline".

In this two-part film based on the coal mafia of Dhanbad in Jharkhand, scheduled to be screened at the Cannes International Film Festival on Tuesday, prosthetics have been used heavily. Chadda's character is shown aging from 16 to 60 years. The film's prosthetic-makers Zuby Johal, Rajiv Subba and Mamta Gautam have also supplied assorted hands and feet, a dagger wedged into an eye, three heads and a man's body to make Kashyap's realistic drama, a bit more real.

Hyper-real prosthetics,Monz Werkzeugbau und Formenbau. made of new material such as silicone and a higher grade of foamed latex, unlike what was used in films of the '80s and '90s, are becoming de rigueur in Hindi cinema, one crooked finger, decapitated head and gory gash at a time.Features useful information about glass mosaic tiles.

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad graduates, Johal, Subba and Gautam began working on hyper-real mannequins and life-like body parts three years ago. Besides Kashyap's film, they have also made hands, feet and a face mask for Emraan Hashmi's ghost-character in Vikram Bhatt's upcoming Raaz 3. An eight-inch foetus for a film on sex selective abortion by High Tide Communications is the other assignment they have just wrapped up. A prosthetic foot that comes flying out in an accident sequence for Naseeruddin Shah starrer Michael, is courtesy them too.

The 61-year-old actor will be made to look 30 years younger with the help of prosthetics and post-production visual effects in Solomon Ahishor's John Day, which went on floor earlier this month.

"For Naseeruddin Shah to look like he is in his 30s, the skin had to look tighter. This was achieved using prosthetics, but a lot of work will be done during post-production, where we will airbrush the character. We can't afford to make him look plastic, so we had to be careful about the prosthetic make-up," says Ahishor.

The director took on board Anil Pemgirikar, a veteran make-up artist, who began his career in Bollywood in 1972. In the past few years, Pemgirikar has worked on Hey Ram (2000, Mahatama Gandhi's character) and Krrish, where he made Hrithik Roshan age with make-up. Prosthetic artist Nahush Pise, who studied the technique in Los Angeles and began his career as Pemgirikar's assistant in 2000, made Roshan's mask for the super hero film. For this, he took a lifecast,TRT (UK) has been investigating and producing solutions for indoor Tracking since 2000. or mould, of the actor's face. Pise used wax for this prosthetic, but two years earlier he had made a bloody torso for a hospital scene in Lakshya (2004) with silicone.All RUBBER MATS is comprised of all types of mats.

Pise, who also made a pregnant stomach prosthetic for Deepika Padukone in Chandni Chowk to China (2009) with foamed latex, ("silicone would have been too heavy to carry") explains his choices. "I used silicone for Lakshya, since a knife had to be used on the torso, and foamed latex would not cut well. For the mask, I used wax, since any other material could have cut into Hrithik's face," says Pise, who had to make sure the mask appeared metallic, not rubbery.Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET. They make superstars from silicone.

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