Bharat will see Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif chronicling several chapters in life via a timeline which ranges across 1947 to 2010. The movie directed by Ali Abbas Zafar will see Salman play a middle-aged man who narrates his journey with the nation. Katrina, who plays Kumud enters his life in perhaps the third phase but will be seen ageing well with him.
However, it has been in the news that Katrina, with the help of prosthetics, took as many as two hours and a lot of experimentation to ensure she gets the look right.
Her makeup artist for the movie, Rebecca Butterworth, revealed that Katrina has as many as five different looks in the movie and the team at Millennium FX worked on two of her looks which involved the use of prosthetics.
Both the times her character is aged around 55 and 65 respectively. When asked if it was difficult to pull off the look, Rebecca shared, "It certainly was! Katrina is so very beautiful and her skin is flawless, it’s very hard to hide prosthetic pieces, especially on the big screen. We also had to balance how Katrina’s character would age against how Salman Khan Sir would age so that they would match up."
"We didn’t want to hide Katrina behind really big prosthetic pieces as we knew we would be filming outdoors in the heat and Katrina didn’t want a barrier between her and her audience, so it’s a challenge to make a face (and hands and arms) appear older when you can’t use full coverage prosthetics pieces," she added.
Elaborating on what was the inspirational point for them to get Katrina's look right, Rebecca said, “When we were designing the looks for Katrina, we tried to stay true to that spirit of ‘graceful ageing’ while recognising that Katrina and Rekha have quite different facial structures." She also was all praises for Kat and said that she was very cooperative and was a pleasure working with.
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Bharat releases on June 5, 2019.
