Aparna Raina

Aparna Raina is a Mumbai based well-known art director and production designer in the Bollywood industry. In 2005, she worked as a production designer in the Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress  >> Read More... starrer Being Cyrus for which she was nominated for the Filmfare for Best Art Director in 2007.

In the year 2006, she worked in the Art Department for the Mira Nair Mira Nair, a veteran Filmmaker, based in New York >> Read More... directed Indian American Drama film The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... and Khosla ka Ghosla starring Anupam Kher Anupam Kher is a very popular actor, director, and >> Read More... . In 2008, she worked as a production designer for the romantic comedy Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na featuring star debuts of Imran Khan Imran Khan is an Indian film actor, who is famous >> Read More... and Prateik Babbar.

In 2010, she was associated with Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and hi >> Read More... , Aditya Kapoor Aditya Kapoor was one of the participants in the M >> Read More... starrer Action Replay and working for TV Shows like 12/24 Carol Bagh. She worked with the YRF in the production of Dhoom Anthem in 2013. In 2014, Aparna worked as an art director in the Ashutosh Gowariker Ashutosh Gowariker was born 15 February 1964 in Ko >> Read More... produced Telenovela Everest.

She has won a National Film Award for best production design in 2015 for Nachom-in Kumpasar and an award for best Art direction for the same movie at the prestigious VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival in 2016 for "convincingly recreating spaces from a different era and with minute attention to detail'.

In 2016, she was associated with multi starrer movie, Force 2 and worked as a production designer in Bank Chor Click to look into! >> Read More... and Poorna 2017. She has also worked in many advertisements including the most well-known Royal Stag advertisement with Shah Rukh Khan.

In her portfolio, she mentions that she started her “journey as an art director” in the 1980s while helping her mother and sister rearrange the furniture in their house. She used this experience and her knack to understand people and their footprints to build a career for her.

The space people inhabit enables one to piece together a story of its own, and it is in telling this story that she finds the most appealing. She also highlights that set decoration is one of the favorite parts of her job and many times she draws inspiration from her childhood memories while creating her sets.

Some of her other work from 2011-2016 include production and set designing in TV Shows like Dekha Ek Khwaab Dekha Ek Khwaab is about a 19-year-old girl named >> Read More... , Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha, Siyasat, Namkaran and Bade Bhaiya ki Dulhaniya marking her work across production channels.