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Kavitha J is an Indian Stylist &amp; a Costume Designer based out of Chennai, India. She works in the Tamil Film Industry predominantly.

Kavitha J started her career with the movie Anjaan directed by N Linguswamy, starring Suriya &amp; Samantha Akkineni. She was an Assistant to the Lead Designer Deepali Noor. Her work in the movie helped her understand the nuances of styling &amp; working in the film Industry. Her credible work in Anjaan as an Assistant helped her come across some wonderful costumers who also spread the word about her. Her good work fetched her to be an Assistant to the Lead Designer Nikhaar Dhawan in the movie Lingaa directed by K.S.Ravi Kumar starring Rajinikanth, Sonakshi Sinha &amp; Anushkha Shetty. During filming she participated in discussions with Assistant Directors to learn &amp; understand certain aspects of filming &amp; from Nikhaar on how costumes form a major role to bring in authenticity to the characters, not just styling. This movie also allowed her to work very closely with the main cast and crew.

In 2014, during the filming of Lingaa, her work was noticed and she was given an opportunity to be the lead designer for actor Santhanam movie Inime ippidithaan directed by Muruganand. Santhanam was introduced with stylish outfits to match the hero quotient along with lead actresses Ashna Zaveri &amp; Akhila Kishore. Soon followed was the movie Dhillukku Dhuddu directed by Rambhala starring Santhanam &amp; Anchal Singh. Having an experience in hand &amp; known to be a dedicated stylist, she had another opportunity to learn along &amp; assist Nikhaar Dhawan for the movie Kaashmora directed by Gokul starring Karthi, Nayanthara &amp; Sri Divya.

Having earned a name in the industry, Kavitha had become a part of the movie Iraivi directed by the critically acclaimed director Karthik Subbaraj. Iraivi had a multiple star casting starring Vijay Sethupathi, Bobby Simha, S J Surya, Anjali, Pooja Devariya &amp; Kamalinee Mukherjee. Kavitha J designed the accessories &amp; styled the leading ladies of the movie. She was appreciated for bringing in the authenticity for each &amp; every character. Particularly for the song sequence involving all three leading ladies &amp; the dancers.

She earned her recognition &amp; thereon did movies like Dhayam by late Director Kannan Rangaswamy with actor Santhosh &amp; Aira Agarval. Followed soon were Ivan Thandiran directed by R Kannan, starring Gautam Karthik, R J Balaji &amp; Shraddha Srinath. Another breakthrough came with an opportunity to work with Director Mysskin in his movie Thupparivalan starring Vishal, Prasanna &amp; Anu Emanuel. This movie brought actor Vishal to be known as the Sherlock Holmes of Kollywood for his mere resemblance in attire &amp; his thought process portrayed in the movie.

While this movie was being filmed she designed for the Movie Anna Durai starring ace Music Director/ Actor Vijay Antony &amp; Diana Champika, directed by G Srinivasan Next in line came another project Kaali directed by Kiruthiga Udhayanidhi with the same Music Director/ Actor Vijay Antony &amp; leading ladies Anjali &amp; Sunaina. This movie presented a great scope for Kavitha to portray &amp; bring different characters to life, both urban &amp; rural looks &amp; attire for the leads of the movie.

Kavitha’s next project was a Rom-Com movie Junga helmed by director Gokul casting actor Vijay Sethupathi, Madonna Sebastian &amp; Sayeesha as leads. In 2018 she designed for a debut director Karthik Thangavelu’s movie Adangamaru starring Jayam Ravi &amp; Raashi Khanna. The movie went on to become a phenomenal hit getting the director &amp; his crew a very good name. Lead actor Jayam Ravi complemented the costumes as well for keeping it simple &amp; realistic. Next Movie was Sindhubaad starring Vijay Sethupathi &amp; Anjali directed by Arun Kumar. And Aadai featuring Amala Paul directed by Rathna Kumar,

Then she did Sangathamizhan

Much to the delight Kavitha is awaiting couple of her projects to release soon. The films in line are Pon Manickavel featuring actor Prabhu Deva &amp; Nivetha Pethuraj directed by A C Mugil. Thittam irandu (Plan B) Directed by Vignesh Karthik starring Aishwarya Rajesh

The Chase directed by Krthik Raju Starring Raiza Wilson

Films As an Assistant Designer: Anjaan 2014 Lingaa 2014 As a Co-designer: Kaashmora 2016

As a Lead designer: Innimey Ippadhithan 2015 Iraivi 2016 Dhilliku Dhuddu 2016 Dhayam 2017 Ivan Thandiran 2017

Thupparivalan2017 Anna Durai 2017 Kaali 2018 Junga 2018 Adangamaru 2018 Sindhubaadh 2018 Aadai 2018 Sangathamizhan 2019

Yet to Release: Ponmanickavel Thalli pogaathey The Chase Shooting on Progress Tughlaq Durbar Simran – Trisha’s untitled project Thittam Irandu (Plan B) Thupparivalan - 2

Mini Bio: J Kavitha is an Indian Stylist &amp; a Costume Designer based out of Chennai, India. She works in the Tamil Film Industry predominantly. She started her career with the movie Anjaan directed by N Linguswamy. She was an Assistant to the Lead Designer Deepali Noor. Her next project was movie Lingaa directed by K.S.Ravi Kumar starring Rajinikanth, Sonakshi Sinha &amp; Anushkha Shetty. She was an Assistant to the Lead Designer Nikhaar Dhawan. Her major breakthrough as a Lead Designer came with the movie Inimey Ippadithaan. She then went on to work as a Designer &amp; Stylist for movies like Kaashmora, Iraivi, Dhillukku Dhuddu, Thupparivalan, Dhayam, Ivan Thandiran, Anna Durai, Kaali, Junga, Adangamaru, Sindhubaadh, Ponmanickavel, Aadai &amp; Sangathamizhan….

References https://www.dtnext.in/Preview/Fashion/2016/06/23204839/Meet-the-new-stylist-on-the-block.vpf AADAI http://kungumam.co.in/ThArticalinnerdetail.aspx?id=5865&amp;id1=63&amp;issue=20190816