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Detailed explanation-1: -Bhanu Athaiya won the Best Costume Design Academy Award for Richard Attenborough’s film Gandhi. It was a first for India. Apart from the Oscar, Bhanu Athaiya has won two Best Costume Design National Awards – one for Lagaan and the other for the 1991 film Lekin.

Detailed explanation-2: -She also worked on international projects with directors such Conrad Rooks in Siddhartha (1972) and Richard Attenborough in Gandhi (1982). For Gandhi, Bhanu won Academy Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye, born April 28, 1929, in Kolhapur, was best known as illustrator and costume designer Bhanu Athaiya. The two-time National Film Award winner became the first Indian to win an Oscar. This was for her costume design on Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ (1982).

Detailed explanation-4: -"Madam, why did they give you the Oscar ?” Someone had asked Bhanu Athaiya after she returned in 1983 with India’s maiden golden statue for designing costumes for Richard Attenborough ‘s three-hour-long, half-century-spanning magnum opus ‘Gandhi’.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first Oscar Award in India was given to Bhanu Athaiya. In 1983, she won the Best Costume Design Oscar at the 55th Academy Awards.