The looks and the make up :
Mr Westmore is a master of his craft and believes in least intervention with reality while creating a look and I consider him my Guru. He delves into the script completely and works on the looks . So much so he asked me why I had decided to name the samurai Shingen Narahachi and i had to explain to him how I am weaving in mythology and this character was an analogy to the Narasimma avatar and hence 'Shingen' like 'Narasinghar’It was amazing how he made my round eyes into beautiful Asian flat eyes to give me the perfect look for the character. Naidu was so simple yet went up a notch because of the accent. Mr Westmore's contribution to the film is equivalent to mine . Mr Westmore was the 11th Avatar of the film , without him the other 10 would not have been possible. The easiest to carry off was Naidu and the most debilitating was Krishna paati. For the latter he gave me a cataract eye and I couldn't see . I was like a tortured animal and wanted the scenes with the paati character to finish soon . It used to excruciatingly painful everytime there would be a delay due to technical issues.
