Aparna Raina

Aparna Raina
Aparna Raina
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Lady Shri Ram College
Occupation	Production designer
Years active	2006–present
Website	aparnaraina.com

Aparna Raina is an Indian production designer. She started her career in 2006 as an art assistant on the film Khosla Ka Ghosla and a set dresser in the critically-acclaimed film The Namesake. Since then she has worked on several films as art director and production designer. She was recently recognized for her work in the hit Konkani language film Nachom-ia Kumpasar, for "convincingly recreating spaces from a different era and with minute attention to detail".^[1] She was awarded the 62nd National Film Awards for Best Production Design for Nachom-ia Kumpasar.^[2]^[3]

Filmography[edit]

Art Director^[4]

2012 Jodi Breakers
2010 Action Replayy
2008 Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
2008 Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
2007 Just Married: Marriage Was Only the Beginning!
2005 Being Cyrus: Nominated for the 2007 Filmfare Award for Best Art Direction^{[citation needed]}

Production Designer^[4]

2014 Everest (TV Series) (12 Episodes)
2014 Nachom-ia Kumpasar (Konkani)
2013 I, Me aur Main
2013 Dhoom Anthem (music video) (Yash Raj Films)^[5]
2011 My Friend Pinto
2008 Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
2005 Being Cyrus

Art Department^[4]

2006 Khosla Ka Ghosla (Assistant Art Director)
2006 The Namesake (Set Dresser: India)

Awards[edit]

2015 National Film Award for the Best Production Design (Film: Nachom-ia Kumpasar)^[6]

References[edit]

^ "Nachom-ia Kumpasar wins big at national awards". The Times of India. 2015-03-25. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
^ Venkat, Shashank (2011-06-30). "Career as a Production Designer". EducationTimes.com. The Times of India. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
^ "62nd National Film Awards: List of Winners". NDTV. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Aparna Raina". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
^ "YRF gifts its fans some more DHOOM! Dhoom Anthem featuring Saba released". Yash Raj Films. 2013-12-26. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
^ "62nd National Film Awards: List of Winners". NDTV. Retrieved 24 March 2015.

[1] "Nachom-ia Kumpasar wins big at national awards". The Times of India. 2015-03-25. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

[2] Venkat, Shashank (2011-06-30). "Career as a Production Designer". EducationTimes.com. The Times of India. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

[3] "62nd National Film Awards: List of Winners". NDTV. Retrieved 24 March 2015.

[:0-4] "Aparna Raina". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 22 July 2014.

[5] "YRF gifts its fans some more DHOOM! Dhoom Anthem featuring Saba released". Yash Raj Films. 2013-12-26. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

[6] "62nd National Film Awards: List of Winners". NDTV. Retrieved 24 March 2015.

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v t e National Film Award for Best Production Design
1980	Jayoo Patwardhan (1980)
1981–2000	Meera Lakhia (1981) Manzoor (1982) Nitish Roy (1983) Nitish Roy (1984) Nachiket Patwardhan and Jayoo Patwardhan (1985) Sham Bhutker (1986) P. Krishnamoorthy (1987) Thota Tharani (1988) T. Vaikundam (1989) P. Krishnamoorthy (1990) Nitish Roy (1991) Samir Chanda (1992) Samir Chanda (1993) Suresh Sawant (1994) Sabu Cyril (1995) Sabu Cyril (1996) Thota Tharani (1997) Ramesh Desai (1998) Nitin Chandrakant Desai (1999) P. Krishnamoorthy (2000)
2001–present	Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2001) Nitin Chandrakant Desai (2002) Indranil Ghosh and Sharmishta Roy (2003) Samir Chanda (2004) C. B. More (2005) Rashid Rangrez (2006) Sabu Cyril (2007) Gautam Sen (2008) Samir Chanda (2009) Sabu Cyril (2010) Indranil Ghosh (2011) Boontawee 'Thor', Taweepasas and N. Ilayaraja (2012) Ashim Ahluwalia, Tabasheer Zutshi and Parichit Paralkar (2013) Aparna Raina (2014) Shriram Iyengar, Saloni Dhatrak, and Sujeet Sawant (2015) Subrata Chakraborthy, Shreyas Khedekar, and Amit Ray (2016) Santhosh Raman (2017) Vinesh Banglan (2018)