Ekta Kapoor is busy offending mothers-in-law and stealing ideas at the same time

Ekta Kapoor must be a proud woman these days. Her clichéd, over-hyped and sensationalized dramas which inevitably create a meaningless divide between the two most important women in a man’s life – namely, his mother and wife, has finally created enough of a hullabaloo to inspire thousands of mothers in law (MILs) around the country to form a forum for their own protection.

Their reasoning is that the gamut of saas-bahu shows always paint the mother-in-law in demonic tones, patronizing the daughter-in-law to the extent that society now considers all MILs as potential villains. What’s more, this skewed perspective can prove very dangerous in real-life situations where the tables turn and MILs are at the receiving end of domestic cruelty.

Honestly people, why does there always have to be a ‘bad person’ in a domestic, marital relationship? Virtually everyone gets married these days, and they don’t all go through the motions of plotting, scheming and destroying a blissful home with their treachery. Instead of creating these meaningless forums which serve little purpose but to create suspicion where there is none, wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to spend the time and effort on your family?

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Apparently, where there’s a scandal/mega-success, Ekta Kapoor’s never too far behind. After her deluge of demented soaps, the czarina of television has now turned her sights to Madhur Bhandarkar’s hugely successful film named ‘Fashion’ and has announced plans of launching a television show named – hold your breath – Fashion! How original!

Ekta, let’s set the record straight once and for all. Ripping off ideas isn’t cool at all, even more so when you claim to invest huge amounts of time and money on ‘conceptualizing’ pet projects. So, would it really hurt you to come up with something original, and non-sensational every once in a while? After hours of flipping through the idiot box looking for something interesting to watch, your soppy soaps tend to grate on the nerves. So, if you’re running out of lucrative project ideas, how about simply switching careers to something that keeps you away from the public forever? Like maybe a vault keeper or a snow flake counter at the peak of Mount Everest?