Summary:
There, she came under the tutelage of her “mentor”, art director Nimesh Thanur, whom she later assisted in Oru Mexican Aparatha. “I feel an art director should also have a good sense of colour and fashion, be it architecture or haute couture. But Dundhu, perhaps the first woman art director from Kerala, clearly had other plans. In Lilli, Dundhu doubled up as production designer and art director, a project that “excited as well as challenged” her on account of its shoestring budget. Depending on the project, the director’s vision and the cinematographer’s ideas, one must be open to experiment and mix and match,” the art director says..