Anaita Shroff Adajania
Indian fashion stylist, costume designer and actress From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anaita Shroff Adajania (née Shroff) is an Indian fashion stylist, costume designer and actress. She was the Fashion Director for Vogue India magazine.[2]
Anaita Shroff Adajania | |
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.jpg) Adajania in 2025 | |
| Born | 1972 or 1973 (age 52–53)[1] |
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| Years active | 1995–present |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Vaibhav Talwar (brother-in-law) Aspy Adajania (father-in-law) |
Early life
Adajania was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra in a Parsi family.[3][4] She attended The Bombay International School and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[4]
Career
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She started her career as assistant fashion editor with Elle magazine, upon its Indian launch in 1996.[5] Subsequently, she worked with L'Officiel India, before becoming the fashion director at Vogue India.[1][6]
The owner of the Style Cell company,[7] Adajania has been noted for her design work on several Bollywood films including Dhoom 2, Being Cyrus, Everybody Says I'm Fine!, Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail.[8] She has notably styled all three films in the Dhoom series, starting with Dhoom (2004) where she worked with John Abraham and Esha Deol's look, followed by Dhoom 2 (2006) where in she worked with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan and Bipasha Basu, and also in the sequel Dhoom 3, she styled Katrina Kaif.[9]
Her designs have also been featured in magazines including Vogue, L'Officiel, Elle and Rolling Stone.[3][10] Shroff also currently styles actress Deepika Padukone[11] exclusively for all of her events.[12]
Apart from this, she has acted in walk-on roles in films, like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995), wherein she played Sheena, Simran's (Kajol) friend in London whom Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) flirts with at the start of the European trip.[13] In Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), she played Gita, Rohit's (Saif Ali Khan) friend.[13]
Filmography
Acting credits
| Year | Film | Role | |
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| 1995 | Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge | Sheena | |
| 2003 | Kal Ho Na Ho | Geeta Parekh | |
Costume designer
| Year | Film |
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| 2001 | Everybody Says I'm Fine! |
| 2004 | Dhoom |
| 2006 | Being Cyrus |
| Hope and a Little Sugar | |
| Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna | |
| Dhoom 2 | |
| 2008 | Krazzy 4 |
| Bhoothnath | |
| 2009 | Love Aaj Kal |
| 2011 | Ra.One |
| Players | |
| 2012 | Cocktail |
| 2013 | Race 2 |
| Dhoom 3 | |
| 2015 | Hero |
| Tamasha | |
| 2014 | Lekar Hum Deewana Dil |
| Finding Fanny | |
| Bang Bang | |
| 2016 | Dear Zindagi |
| Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | |
| Fitoor | |
| 2017 | Raabta |
| Half Girlfriend | |
| 2018 | Race 3 |
| Andhadhun | |
| Zero | |
| 2019 | War |
| 2021 | Sooryavanshi |
| 2022 | Gehraiyaan |
| Brahmāstra | |
| 2023 | Pathaan |
| The Night Manager | |
| Tiger 3 | |
| 2024 | Merry Christmas |
| 2025 | War 2 |
Personal life
She married Indian film director and screenwriter Homi Adajania in 2002 who directed Being Cyrus (2006) and Cocktail (2012). The couple has two sons and she is the sister of Scherezade Shroff.[14]
Her sister, Scherezade Shroff is a YouTube vlogger. She married actor Vaibhav Talwar in 2016.[15]
Awards
| Year | Award Giving Body | Category | Work | Result | Ref |
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| 2007 | 8th IIFA Awards | Best Costume Design | Dhoom 2 | Won | [16] |
| 2010 | 11th IIFA Awards | Best Costume Design (shared with Dolly Ahluwalia) | Love Aaj Kal | Won | [17] |
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