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Pia Benegal

  • Costume Designer
  • Additional Crew
  • Actress
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Pia Benegal has been a Costume Designer for over three decades, with experience in film, television, and theatre. Known for her authentic approach, she excels in both realistic genres and period dramas. Her latest project, 'Gandhi' (presently in post-production), is a TV Series on Gandhi's earliest days and his days as a lawyer, showing the lesser-known stories of his life that played an important role in shaping him into a Mahatma. Pia's notable films include 'Mujib: The Making of a Nation', 'Aligarh', 'Bose: The Forgotten Hero', 'Mammo', 'Zubeidaa', 'Suraj Ka Satwan Ghoda', 'Hari Bhari', 'Welcome to Sajjanpur', 'Sardari Begum', 'Dil Se', 'Well Done Abba', 'English', 'August', 'Drohkaal', and 'Bombay Boys'.

In television, Pia worked on the ten-part series Samvidhaan, and other shows like Siyaasat. She also contributed to the docu-drama Jang-E-Azadi, featured at the museum in Kartarpur, Punjab, and designed for the play Gauhar, performed across India and internationally.

Pia won the Lux Cine Zee Award for Best Costume Design for 'Sardari Begum' in 1998. Her work on the BBC-2 docu-drama 'Last Days of the Raj' earned a BAFTA nomination in 2008.

A passionate traveler, nature lover, and photographer, Pia has also served as a jury member for the Kashish Film Festival in 2013, the Laadli Film and Book Awards in 2018, and the LIFFT India Filmotsav-World Cine Fest in 2017 and 2018.
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  • Known for

    Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in Dil Se.. (1998)
    Dil Se..
    7.5
    • Costume Designer
    • 1998
    Droh Kaal (1994)
    Droh Kaal
    7.8
    • Costume Designer
    • 1994
    The Seventh Horse of the Sun (1992)
    The Seventh Horse of the Sun
    8.0
    • Costume Designer
    • 1992
    Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India (2014)
    Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India
    8.7
    TV Mini Series
    • Costume Designer

    Credits

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    Costume Designer



    • Gandhi
      • Costume Designer
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2025



    • Pratik Gandhi in Gandhi (2025)
      Gandhi
      6.0
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2025
    • Arifin Shuvoo in Mujib: The Making of Nation (2023)
      Mujib: The Making of Nation
      4.4
      • Costume Designer
      • 2023
    • Shabana Azmi, Avik Mukhopadhyay, A. Sreekar Prasad, Piyush Panjuani, Yohaan Panjuani, Vinita Panjuani, and Ahmed Umera in 5 Rupees (2018)
      5 Rupees
      5.4
      • costumes designed by
      • 2018
    • Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao in Aligarh (2015)
      Aligarh
      7.7
      • Costume Designer
      • 2015
    • Siyaasat (2014)
      Siyaasat
      8.5
      TV Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2014–2015
    • Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India (2014)
      Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India
      8.7
      TV Mini Series
      • Costume Designer
      • 2014
    • Ila Arun, Rajendra Gupta, Ravi Jhankal, Rajit Kapoor, Ravi Kishan, Yashpal Sharma, Boman Irani, Sammir Dattani, and Minissha Lamba in Well Done Abba! (2009)
      Well Done Abba!
      7.2
      • Costume Designer
      • 2009
    • Amrita Rao and Shreyas Talpade in Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008)
      Welcome to Sajjanpur
      6.9
      • Costume Designer
      • 2008
    • The Last Days of the Raj (2007)
      The Last Days of the Raj
      6.8
      TV Movie
      • costume design
      • 2007
    • Sachin Khedekar in Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005)
      Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
      7.6
      • Costume Designer
      • 2005
    • Zubeidaa (2001)
      Zubeidaa
      6.6
      • Costume Designer
      • 2001
    • Hari-Bhari (2000)
      Hari-Bhari
      6.9
      • Costume Designer
      • 2000
    • Samar (1998)
      Samar
      7.4
      • costumes designed by
      • 1998
    • Bombay Boys (1998)
      Bombay Boys
      6.3
      • Costume Designer
      • 1998
    • Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in Dil Se.. (1998)
      Dil Se..
      7.5
      • Costume Designer
      • 1998

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    • RIP
      • still photographer
      • Post-production
      • Short



    • The Re-Bell (2018)
      The Re-Bell
      TV Movie
      • still photographer
      • 2018

    Actress



    • Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in Dil Se.. (1998)
      Dil Se..
      7.5
      • 1998

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    • Parents
      • Shyam Benegal

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      Daughter of Shyam Benegal.

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