Bigg confessions

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Amarjot Kaur

Arya Babbar’s presence in the reality show Bigg Boss, stirred up a storm of rumours and controversies. Be it Minissha Lamba’s on-screen revelation of him manipulating her to strategise a romance, or his dramatic brawl with Puneet, Arya added spice to the show.

As we engage in an interesting conversation with this ‘proud to be a Punjabi Babbar’, we stand acquainted with a list of sequences that give us a peak into what goes around in the Bigg Boss house, unedited and uncut.

“What really prompted me to go to the Bigg Boss house was my up and coming novel titled My Fiancée, Me and #ifu**ed up, which is about the goof ups that one does after falling in love,” he begins. Though Arya speaks very little about his book, which is slated to release sometime around the month of January, the actor shares that he too was married once and the book explores the concept and relevance of marriage in the contemporary social set up. In the City Beautiful to attend the marriage of his friend’s sister, Arya first justifies his eviction from the Bigg Boss, as he says, “I was not going to stay in Bigg Boss for more than five weeks, and I am really happy that I stayed there for almost eight weeks,” he smiles.

However, his stay at the Bigg Boss house seems nothing short of a crash course on patience, will power, and how to run household errands! But first things first, he elaborates on his association with Minissha Lamba and asking her to engage in an on-screen romance with him on the show, which he assures was only a survival tactic. “Everyone in the show is playing games, so when I got to know that Minissha was also going to be on the show, I rang her up. Considering that she, being a good friend would accept my idea to kick off an on-screen romance on the show, I was okay when I didn’t receive a call from her end and I let it go when I met her on the show,” he says.

However, Arya shares that he is on good terms with Minissha and though he has not spoken to her after his exit from the show, he would love to meet her and clear the mess. “I turned down the offer to act in the film titled 420 because I am extremely against the idea of cross dressing, especially wearing a saree. On the show, I was willing to wear a saree to save Minissha from being eliminated and all through my stay on the show, I have never nominated Minnisha,” he justifies.

Meanwhile, Arya considers Bigg Boss to be the ultimate test of one’s psyche and it tests one’s deepest reserves of patience. “The show is not scripted, but it plays with your psyche in a way that it makes you react differently. While at first you are nice to everyone, after a month, when you tend to adjust with people you don’t know and you are at times deprived of even the most basic things, it pushes you to the edge and even the most irrelevant things bother you,” he says.

As far as his association with the other contestants on the show stands questioned, Arya takes a very candid and honest route. “I really respected Puneet ji, but when he assaulted me on the show, I was completely taken aback and very disappointed. So, I have no good opinion of Puneet ji, but I became very thick friends with Upen Patel, who is perhaps the only one not playing any games, which is why I think he will win the show,” he shares.

Though his eight-week long stay took a toll on him emotionally, Arya claims that he came out of the house knowing a lot more about himself than he already did. “The only reason why I did not hit Puneet ji back, apart from his age and his association with my family, was the promise that I had given to my father. He had asked me to remain calm and not hit anyone,” he says. “Also, I discovered that I am a calm person and I can run many household chores, which I otherwise could not, like cleaning, making bed, and washing utensils, to name a few,” he laughs.

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