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Ms Athaiya, who won an Oscar for her work on the 1983 epic film Gandhi, passed away peacefully in her sleep, her daughter Radhika Gupta said. Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, India’s first Oscar winner, died at her home on Thursday after a prolonged illness, her daughter said. She was 91 …

Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya, who won the first Academy Award for India, has died at the age of 91. He won the Oscar for Best Costume Design for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi in 1983, along with John Mollo. The expansive film, with Ben Kingsley playing the Mahatma, swept the Oscars with …