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Bigg Boss OTT 3 house designed by Omung Kumar: Inspired by Jumanji-Harry Potter, here's what NEW you'll see this time; EXCLUSIVE
While exclusively speaking to Pinkvilla, Art Director Omung Kumar gave a detailed explanation of what new features audiences can look forward to in Bigg Boss OTT 3 house.
Bigg Boss OTT Season 3 is just a day away from its grand premiere! Speaking about the show's presentation, Bigg Boss OTT 3 house decor always promises to be exceptional, and this season, too, it has not let down audiences' expectations.
Art Director Omung Kumar and his wife, Vanita Garud, never fail to impress Bigg Boss fans by bringing magic to life. Adding a blend of fantasy to reality, this time also, the power couple left everyone amazed by putting up a marvelous and majestic Bigg Boss OTT 3 house.
To know more details about it, we got into an exclusive conversation with Omung Kumar to get a virtual understanding of the Bigg Boss OTT 3 house. Excerpts from the interview:
What is the theme this year, and what is your inspiration or idea behind the Bigg Boss OTT 3 house theme?
The theme of the house is "fantasy book coming alive." It's like opening a crazy book full of fantasies that has everything put together. From Jumanji types to Harry Potter to fantasy worlds that have not been seen before. It's something that you have always read in books, but you have never experienced it. So, if you open this fantasy book that's what we have brought to life.
Main Entrance:
You enter the house with a huge key and a keyhole in the gate itself. We have used thousands of keys, locks, and keyholes in the garden area. You can see some other world outside from the peephole, but you cannot go out when you come in here. There are painted locks, vertical and horizontal locks, keys, and crazy keys, which are the periphery of the top of the garden.
Entrance to the living area from the garden:
The moment you come in, there are two anonymous statues that are standing and guarding the main house. Anonymous statues are wearing cloaks and holding daggers. So there are such two statues guarding the house when you come in. The base of these statues is used as a seating area where they can clog in the garden.
Garden area:
There is a huge eye over the swimming pool, and from the eyeball, a huge unicorn face is coming out with the horn and head. There's a small castle that becomes the bar outside. There is a table, which is a banyaat table that has lemons on top, which has a pickle and ice outdoor feel. There's a waterfall where a huge face opens up, and water comes out from it.
Bathroom:
From there only, there is a way to the bathroom. The bathroom has all locks and keys, so the carpet is printed with keys throughout. Once you go inside, there are locks and keys embedded in the wall itself. The moment you go inside further, the whole place is like a time walk, something like a makeup room with frames, and every frame has a hand coming out with a mirror, like a hand mirror. Then, there are two fancy male and female costumes that become the chairs over there.
Living Room:
The moment you come into the house, the living room has a huge dragon coming out of a wooden crate, and the dragon's body goes throughout the whole periphery of the house, like going in and coming out. That is the living room. It's the claw that comes out, which is basically the table base, that's the dining area.
Kitchen:
If you think you can go into an old-time village that has cobblestones and a broken canal, in the end, it is the wine seller, and that becomes the kitchen area. It's all with barrels and barrels, like Harry Potter, that's the kitchen.
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More about the living area:
Left aside is a white human porcelain wall, which is a niche inside and becomes a small place for people to sit around. There's lots of pottery. Every wall is like an illusion wall. There are steps painted on the wall, and a few steps come out, which become the seating area.
Where they'll watch the host, on top of that, there is an audient wall where the left side is something else, the right side is something else, there is a huge poker that comes out, there is a giant egg which is coming out, which has a face on it, two lions are coming out.
It's all an illusion put together. Once you are sitting there, a huge fantasy book is on one wall. It's like a 15 to 18-foot book that is opened up, and there is a niche inside itself, which becomes a sofa seating in the cutout of the book.
There is a normal one and a half feet table. That table has endless illusions that we made it into a well. A rope goes inside the mirror, and the rope goes down on the other side. There are just two lines of bulbs and a ladder, but once you put a mirror that is reflective, you will see hundreds of floors down, which is endless.
There is a bridge connecting the living room to the store room, where you always have to cross the bridge and then go to the next level where there is a boat sort of sofa. There is a pillow tree; there is a red background filled with windows that becomes an area where you can go to the activity area and store room.
Bedroom:
This time, the bedroom is like the old world charm, where you will see puppet theatres, painted walls, everything painted, cutouts of the faces, and cutouts of the curtains. Curtains are not real. Very vintage painting, so that becomes the periphery area of the bedroom.
After a long time, we got center beds, so all the beds are in the center. It's also around but also in the center. So, who will choose the center that is a talking point? Inside, all the beds join, which becomes sofa seating.
Bathroom:
There is a bathroom for them also with a huge purple backdrop and a gold sofa for them. That is where the bathroom is gonna be.
Confession room:
Coming to the confession room, the confession room has endless mirrors and Harry Potter-type candles that are hanging on top. We have huge fat candles. The moment you enter the confession room, the room is like a stained glass wall with a staircase that goes left and right, and the stairs become a sofa. There is no sofa around. So, this type of fantasy world is what the whole house is.
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What is the never-before-seen design or aspect of the Bigg Boss house this time?
The whole house has never been seen before. The house is put together that we have never done before. Because we have done this for so many years, we must outdo ourselves and what people have not seen before. Yes, people have seen dragons before, but not this type of thing. It's like sitting in the living room, talking, and seeing the fantasy book pop up. That's how everything is popping up.
Yes, it will eat you up. First, it'll seem beautiful, but after some time, the same wall will eat you up. You will want to run out from here, but you cannot. There are thousands of keys and locks which will not let you out. That's the beauty of this place.
It's beautiful for some to live in, but then the same wall will eat you up. That's how challenging this place is. For us, every wall has to talk. We want to outdo and challenge ourselves, like what should be the talking point, which sofa seating will be the highlight, and what would be a corner to cry and sleep around.
What challenges did you encounter while designing this season's house?
Challenges were basically how not to let it look like last year and what the new talking point of people is. The orientation becomes the same: you come in and then left, right, and how to not make it look like earlier times.
Last two years, we have made different rooms. This year, we made a huge same room for everyone to clonk in together in the center. What will happen if the bed is in the center? What will change? So the challenge is to outdo ourselves and yet get a new talking point.
Doing the theme is no problem because Vanita and I live in this fantasy world. For us, it's basically opening our minds and showing you what a fantasy book will look like and making it into a real TV thing. That is not a crazy point; the crazy point is doing something new.
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You and your wife, Vanita, contribute equally to the design and theme every season. Were there any apprehensions or differences while creating the interiors of the house this year?
It always happens. When two creative minds think the same thing, sometimes we are on the same page, and sometimes we change it. Right now, we have done the place, but tomorrow, again, she will come, and changes will have to be made. But we know each other's minds. If I take one step forward, I know how she will take ahead of that. She will say, 'this is not right,' 'this is not what we are meant for,' 'Change it,' so that is the argument we keep on having.
With 17 seasons of main Bigg Boss and the 3rd season of OTT, how do you ensure you are different in all seasons?
People have been used to it for so many years, and they expect something crazier. We have to deliver that. But yes, sometimes we fall short, and then we really have to think. Obviously, when you finish one season, next season, we are already ready with the idea. Like this is done, we have to outdo this in the next season. We finish the set, wait for her, and then think about the next time.
We are like, 'Once it's done, cancel now, it's off our list, and now something else.' Around the world, people do different Bigg Boss, but our Bigg Boss is more crazy. People around the world do fantastic stuff and do it in real life, but we do extra because people expect it. We can't keep a normal house as people might call it boring.
Hosted by Anil Kapoor, Bigg Boss OTT 3 premieres on June 21 at 9 PM on Jio Cinema.
Stay tuned to Pinkvilla to get more exclusive updates about Bigg Boss OTT 3!
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