Decoding Ranveer Singh, Akhshaye Khanna and others’ looks ahead of the film’s digital debut

While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bollywood prosthetic and character designer Preetisheel Singh shared that the first key detail was Ranveer’s hair. “Cracking the hair was important; we had to strike a balance between making it cinematic but not distracting because he is not a front and centre character in the first part.”

In the movie, we see Ranveer Singh, aka Hamza’s journey from being a nobody to Rehman Daikat’s inner circle member to being the man who takes over Lyari; it was essential that his look transitions with him as well. “Dhurandhar expands over a certain time period, and I wanted to track that journey from getting into the “spy look,” where he doesn’t have access to money, doesn’t even have a house to stay in, being on the streets, to entering the gang. I wanted to show the initial rugged rawness, where he is not grooming himself every day, with unkempt, grungy hair, tied into a ponytail sometimes. You see that greasiness in the texture coming across. Texture is very important to me. I even gave him freckles on his face and tanned his skin tone. This builds character,” shares Preetisheel.