One of my colleagues asked me yesterday who Ekta Kapoor was and what her serials were like! It took us a few mins to recover from the shock that he hadn’t heard of her, more importantly that he hadn’t heard a joke about her serials :P
So after making sure that he wasn’t exactly trying a late April fool’s joke, we explained to him the television phenomenon that hit Indian television in the early to mid 90s. The brilliance that is the twists in her stories and the number of records her serials end up breaking(mostly related to no. of episodes and no. of times a character gets married).
Now its not that everyone should know who she is. But considering that he watched a decent amount of tv (at least thanks to his family) and is very often(understatement) on the internet, it was only fair to assume he had encountered the ‘phenomenon’.
Anyway jokes aside, how many of you read the first line and googled “Ekta Kapoor”?