By Devansh Patel, May 6, 2011 – 14:42 IST

It’s 5.30 on a Tuesday evening. My mobile was beeping with back to back text messages of Osama Bin Laden and then suddenly one text pops up that read – Come to Balaji to meet Ekta Kapoor. Now I’d be a fool not to take this one seriously. Within an hour I was dressed to meet India’s most powerful woman who has built an eponymous media empire named ‘Balaji’. So what does one do with so many preconceived notions? “Ekta is very strict. Mind your move”, “Ekta isn’t easy to deal with”, “Ekta’s interview is not going to be easy”, and the many more one line suggestions started to pour on my mobile as I left for her Andheri office. I reach Balaji at 7pm. Ekta is nowhere to be seen as she was just driving back from one of the television shows where she was the guest of honour. Time is ticking and its 8pm and I’ve already gulped down a cup of green tea and black coffee. Then I was told to come on the 5th floor where she is busy changing to get ready for my interview. It’s 8.30pm and Ekta is talking with me in her fifth floor suite because both her life and her company are very much in transition. But before our talks, Ekta being Ekta introduces me to a few of her colleagues where she is surprised to know that I know a few of them already: courtesy Facebook. In her flawless Malini Ramani, she looked every bit an actress, and with her stretched smile, you definitely get drawn to her stunning symmetry of beauty and brains all More >