Verve People
Text by Shirin Mehta. Interview by Shweta Navandar.
Special effects prosthetist Zuby Johal shot to fame with Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 and 2 and has since worked on films like Badlapur, Tumbbad, Bose: Dead/Alive, Raabta, Love Aaj Kal 2, the horror anthology Ghost Stories and the Malayalam-language Uyare. In Raabta, actor Rajkummar Rao was transformed by Johal into a 324-year-old oracle. Her upcoming films include Soup by Abhishek Chaubey, an untitled film by Shakun Batra, Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui by Abhishek Kapoor and Dhaakad by Razneesh Ghai, amongst others.
And while the Bengaluru-based artist (she also maintains Studio Avtar in Ahmedabad) can create all that is terrifying, this NID (National Institute of Design) graduate, co-founder (with Rajiv Subba) of Dirty Hands Studio, taps into her love of fashion and desire to design and create everyday items using silicone, the material that she has…