After a lot of controversies yet again, the third season of Bigg Boss OTT has come to an end, with Sana Makbul emerging as the winner. The Pioneer has her onboard for a quick interview, as she goes on to share her emotions about being crowned the winner and also speaks her heart out on a few controversies
Tejal Sinha
Sass, grace, fiery vibes and hair flips—well, Sana Makbul has been all about it! There are no two ways about the fact that her audacious aura has made her emerge as the winner of Bigg Boss OTT 3, holding the trophy rapturously. ‘Rishton ki ek jeeti jaati missal, Sana Makbul,’ just as Bigg Boss had aptly defined her just a few moments before the finale episode, her journey in the house truly spells out the same.
“The crown is already heavy (we laugh),” shares the ravishing Sana as we have her onboard. Hot as hell, setting trends and breaking all the spells at the BB House, the trophy for her was everything beyond. Just as in King Khan’s acclaimed dialogue, ‘Kehte hain agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho…to puri kainaat usse tumse milane ki koshish mein lag jaati hai…’ and since the day she had entered the house, everyone knew her only target was the trophy.
We’ve often heard that Bigg Boss is a controversial show and people in talks are the ones who generally enter the show. But that wasn’t the case with the Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya actress!
In fact, she too remembers how her close ones asked her, “Sana, you are a non-controversial person; why Bigg Boss?” However, being a low-key person, she has a different look to it. “I wanted to comeback with a bang. For the past year, mera kaam kaaj utna kuch high mai nahi tha. I used to work, but it was tiny little ones,” she affirms as she also confesses, “This was not the first time that I got a call for Bigg Boss. It has been happening for a few years and if I remember, I have been getting calls even before I did Khatron. I started getting the call after I did Vish on Colors. They started approaching me for BB, even for the main one. During the pandemic, when I was approached, I wanted to do Khatron Ke Khiladi. I wanted to get rid of the animal fear I have had. Then, in the first OTT season, I still did not feel like doing it. However, over the years, I somewhat got convinced and had this attitude that whenever I did Bigg Boss, I would be all in.”
Keeping all the other things aside, every season of Bigg Boss does see a celebration when the winner gets announced. But as a shock to many, none of the contestants had gotten on stage to congratulate Sana. With all the talk around it, let’s hear what she had to tell us about it: “A lot of people have been clarifying their side of it. Of course, the whole team and makers wanted to capture my moment and I really appreciated this and went with them. They were instructed, apparently. But I would like to say that it was not about ‘kaun aaya and kaun nahi’. Even if you weren’t involved in my happy moments at that time, you could have been happy for me. They weren’t even clapping for me. I felt bad. Aapko itni kya nafrat hogayi. All of them were in a state of shock. How did I win the show? That was really unexpected for me, but at the end, the people who mattered to me—my mom, sister and my three friends who were sitting there—were very happy. Lovekesh was like, ‘Arey Chori’ in his Haryanvi language. Vishal and Shivani were very happy. Naezy, with whom I was standing at the stage, was happy. So people who mattered were happy and the ones who did not were cold to me, which is okay.”
While she, on one side, was clear about her target, on the other hand, was also targeted by the housemates who often called her ‘fake’, selfish’ and ‘snake’. These tags did not end there. Post-season, she was termed the ‘fixed winner’ of the season. “I really don’t know why they said that. If I am emerging as a star outside, then you are calling that star a ‘fixed winner’. I know my personality. When I walk into that room, people do look at me. Yes, I have that in me and my personality is like that. Even when I was nothing, people used to notice me. All of us were chosen there; the makers had chosen us. I am just not talking about me, but all of us were selected. Out of those contestants, I too was one of them and shone amongst them. I was just being me; that was in my hand and I was showing and being myself. It was the realness that people loved. In fact, if I had been the most favoured, meri itni nahi bajate they Weekend Ke Vaar main. I was questioned for what not, even on my character. The whole season and Weekend Ka Vaar, things were against me.”
“Joh tutt ke bikhar jaaye woh Sana Makbul kaisi,” said Bigg Boss. And her strong personality and mind proved it. We’ve often seen her during this season and how she’s stood boldly against the housemates, especially Ranvir Shorey. She further addressed Ranvir Shorey’s decision to hold grudges against her sharing. “See, I’ll tell you honestly, while we were in the house, even I felt that I would hold my grudges against him. Even though I was like, I am not going to see him outside, I still stand by it. He is not somebody I like or somebody I will sit with. Somebody had asked me if I would work with him. Back in the show, I was like, No, but now I would contradict it. Why should I get the work in between? It’s a small world and while working, if we’d meet, I’d certainly have only that professional attitude. If he is holding it against me, then I would say that man is obsessed with me and has to move on. The show is over and Sana has become the winner. This is something that you need to accept now. I know it is difficult for him, Sai and Armaan. For them, the winner was either them or Ranvir. It’s their call, but I don’t hold any grudges against anybody.”
She goes on to recall how her formative years taught her lessons, making her who she is today. On the one hand, she is kind and sympathetic; on the other hand, she also has a cold and different side to her. In her Bigg Boss journey, “I have been myself and real. When all of us entered the show, we had come to win and were very diplomatic. They had no self-love and didn’t have the zeal that I had. I had the jigra to say that I had come here to win. My mindset when I entered the show was that I was not here to make relationships. My focus and vision were to win it. But some people cornered me, and again, I did not want people to fight and speak on my behalf. I can do that myself. If people point a finger at me, I’m like, ‘aap apne aap ko bhi dekho chaar ungli aapke taraf bhi hai’. I had that attitude that I was not going to take anyone of them back home.”
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