Mumbai: Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's films sets are always talked about. Be it Devdas, Black or now even Saawariya, Bhansali gives sets as much importance as he gives to his scripts and direction.

And the man behind these dream sets is art director Omung Kumar.

“We have tried to create a world, where it’s in India but timeless. But it has everything that you can see in India. It has Buddha, Saraswati, the lotuses and the peacocks. Though it’s scattered all over India, we tried to bring this in one world. And it’s a love story so everything had to be poetic. It was very difficult to do that because we are trying to make a world and make people believe in. It’s a fantasy world,” says Kumar.

It’s not an easy task to erect a set the way Bhansali had visualised. Kumar took almost two years of hardwork and 300 people working round the clock, to create the world in which Bhansali wanted to narrate the story of Saawariya.

Initially, the colours for the film's reference shoot were beige and blue and only later he decided blue is what will stand out.

“We tried out blue also and while doing that reference we stuck to blue because blue had aqua blue, light blue, dark blue, sky blue, and if you go darker you get green, and then playing with gold and silver and it was night. So that was the main challenge to get everything together. But yes, we got our palette right and that I think nobody has done before,” says Kumar.

It’s not just these huge walls, one look at these paintings on the walls, floor, ceiling and even the curtains and you know the hard work that goes into every frame.

And Kumar was so carried away that he even changed his company's name from Opus Planet to Blue Lotus.

Now all he hopes is that when Saawariya hits the screens on November 9, people take note of his sets!