Dummies Guide to make Ekta’s Serials

With time Balaji Telefilms has become the most envied and talked-about soap churning factory.
Even though there are many pretenders to the throne, no one has been remotely as successful in dethroning the king (queen, actually, and we all know whom we are talking about) till now!
Here’s a ‘Do It Yourself’ guide to make things a little easier for aspiring serial makers. The first step is to identify the ingredients in a typical Balaji soap, decode them and then clone them.

1. The K-Title
This is the first and the foremost requirement of making a successful Balaji soap. Never mind if your title runs into several hundred letters, many repeated as in a stammer, or sounds weird, but it has to start with K.
It’s also important to register the title before anyone else (Ekta Kapoor, Karan Johar, Rakesh Roshan etc.) steals your lucky K-title.

2. Docile Bahu
Once the title is finalised, pick up a bechaari looking, suppressed and homely middleclass girl from the market.
Never mind if she is dumb and can’t act, because she doesn’t need to.
All she needs to do is, shed gallons of tears/gylcerine in every second scene. After all, she has to play a good docile woman who takes all the possible injustices in the world lying low. She will never be into revenge because she believes in the concept of forgive and forget.

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