The architect said this mixed layout was nicknamed by local people as "mixed rice", which gave the video its name. "A building should essentially be a frame or a backdrop for what happens inside."Īnother element of the station's design that is highlighted in the film is its floor plan, which Inui designed to mix functional areas with public spaces – preventing the station from becoming two distinct "divided chunks". "What's most important to me is that activities inside are communicated to the outside," Inui explains in the video. She said this ensures the station's interiors are visible to the outside and also allows people inside to observe the surrounding cityscape. Inui's studio lined Nobeoka Station with large expanses of glass and also designed its upper levels to feel close to the ground. The station has glass facades that frame activities inside This challenges the existing layout of the city, which she describes as being closed-off and filled with "completely opaque" buildings. The architect said that its design is an attempt to make the site "as porous as possible" and help tie the station to the neighbourhood. Inui begins by explaining the origins of the station's redevelopment, which she began in 2011 with her eponymous studio Inui Architects as part of a wider regeneration project for the area. Recipe for Mixed Rice begins with video footage of a train passing through Nobeoka, before arriving at the station. Japanese architect Kumiko Inui guides viewers through the project with a scaled model However, the team did not reveal the budget.įeaturing Laksh Lalwani, Rohit Purohit, Rati Pandey, Aditya Redij, Praneet Bhat, Porus will be aired on Sony Entertainment Television tentatively in mid-November.The videos are available to watch in Japanese with English subtitles. The area has been decorated with not only goods for trading, but also some interesting sculptures that depict the Persian kingdom of Darius.įrom each set with different colours to designing authentic jewellery and clothes that capture the different socio-cultural background of that era, the world of Porus appears to be such where imagination meets reality. The kingdom of Macedonia, for the character of Alexander the Great, is set in white, black and decorated with various pieces of Greek architecture.Ī 'mandi' has also been created to showcase Persian traders dealing in business. One part of the shooting even happened in Thailand.
We have recreated the same, with the colour."Īpart from blue, the Dasyu Rajya, which is set in water, has shades of green and brown, keeping the essence of nature. "That kingdom of ancient India is now located in Afghanistan, which is the main supplier of the Lapis lazuli stone.
The reason behind using blue colour in Paurava Rashtra is logical.
Explaining the reason for using the colour blue and silver extensively, Sen said: "All the kingdoms, whether it is Macedonia, Dasyu Rajya, Paurava Rashtra, have their own colour scheme. The architecture of Paurava Rashtra is inspired by the Ajanta-Ellora cave art. Finally, when I got the opportunity for Porus, I was more than happy."Īround 7,000 tubelights have been set up to create daylight as shooting the entire show in daylight was just not possible for the crew. Lal said: "As a cinematographer, I always wanted to do something on a period drama because creating the world of something unseen, has a different challenge. He started giving his inputs and designed some lights even at the sketching level." "The involvement of cinematographer comes after the set is built, but for this set, our team worked closely with Kabir sir. Sen worked closely with Lal of Taal fame for this. Lighting the huge set and cinematography was another crucial part of creating the visuals. "A lot of redesigning and resketching happened in the process because producer Siddharth Kumar Tewary was very focused from the beginning that we are going to achieve a grander set that the Indian television has never seen before." The art direction team made over 250 drafts of sketches before zeroing in on the final draft. So it has a cave shape, but at the same time, we have tried to capture the nuanced beauty of our ancient culture." "We played with the idea that the whole area WAS dug out of a mountain, so it is rounded in shape. The pre-production started a year ago, and we took around 7 months to construct the set. I sat together with 35 designers and brainstormed to create the world of Porus. Sen told IANS: "The conceptualization of the whole set had started three years back. The set is divided into five different kingdoms with separate colour palettes – Taxila Rashtra, Paurava Rashtra, Dasyu Rajya, Macedonia and Persia. Director of photography Kabir Lal and art director Amit Sen took select media here on a tour of the sets to explore the world of Porus.