Ana Singh was in her early twenties when director Sooraj Barjatya approached her to design costumes for Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan starrer Hum Aapke Hain Kon. The film went on to become the highest-grossing family entertainer of all time. Almost three decades later, the costumes designed by Singh are part of Karan Torani’s mood-board. “It’s quite sweet to see today’s kids referencing the film’s costumes,” says Singh to mid-day. 

The stalwart’s enviable design career spans 1013 films, almost half of which released in the ’90s. The full-sleeved emerald blouse with an embellished neckline paired with a pearl lehenga for the Joote de do song is arguably the biggest fashion moment of the ’90s. Surprisingly, the lehenga had left Singh howling. “The final lehenga was ready. I had stitched it myself on the sewing machine. But on the day of the shoot, the helper burned it while ironing. I broke down,” Singh confides.