<p>Film and Television producer Ekta Kapoor, says the idea of shedding weight to become fit and fab, came really late in her career.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I have been obese always. I have grown up with Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol and others around me who were always great but the idea of weight loss came late to me," the 38-year-old producer said at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival here.<br /><br />She was in conversation with author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi in a session "Each Others Stories."<br /><br />"In fact it hasn't even come completely. But I never had a problem with being obese and I don't pay attention to those criticise me," the once very chubby actress who has succeeded in losing a lot of weight over the past few years said.<br /><br />Ekta, who is called the queen of soap opera, for the numerous TV serials she has produced said she had a fascination for female characters, which could stem from her mother's insistence on the need of being independant.<br /><br />"My mother kept telling my father to let me be independent and then she took strong steps. I believe, that determination led to my fascination for female characters," she said.<br /><br />All her serials have however not all been modelled on the 'determined independent women', but some of them have been based on stereotyped stories of mother-in law and daughter-in law.<br /><br />Ekta responds, "All sort of women exist in the society and I have to show all sides of them."<br /><br />When quizzed about the reality of her characters who "sleep with their make up on," Ekta said,"I see it that way and I like it that way. I don't have to explain my choices to the critics."<br /><br />Citing a scene from the Bollywood film "Dirty Picture", which she co-produced Ekta said, "The day you start thinking about what others think about you or say about you, you end up ruining yourself."<br /><br />Ekta said she wished to make films and serials on biographies.<br /><br />"I see the 'Dirty Picture' as a biography and I have many such biographies in my mind. But I have not convinced myself to any such book where the story and narrative appeals to me visually as well," she said.<br /><br />Ekta's session at the Festival was interrupted by activists of a Rajput outfit who protested against the presence of filmmaker, objecting to the title of her TV serial 'Jodha Akbar'. <br /></p>
<p>Film and Television producer Ekta Kapoor, says the idea of shedding weight to become fit and fab, came really late in her career.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"I have been obese always. I have grown up with Abhishek Bachchan, Bobby Deol and others around me who were always great but the idea of weight loss came late to me," the 38-year-old producer said at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival here.<br /><br />She was in conversation with author Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi in a session "Each Others Stories."<br /><br />"In fact it hasn't even come completely. But I never had a problem with being obese and I don't pay attention to those criticise me," the once very chubby actress who has succeeded in losing a lot of weight over the past few years said.<br /><br />Ekta, who is called the queen of soap opera, for the numerous TV serials she has produced said she had a fascination for female characters, which could stem from her mother's insistence on the need of being independant.<br /><br />"My mother kept telling my father to let me be independent and then she took strong steps. I believe, that determination led to my fascination for female characters," she said.<br /><br />All her serials have however not all been modelled on the 'determined independent women', but some of them have been based on stereotyped stories of mother-in law and daughter-in law.<br /><br />Ekta responds, "All sort of women exist in the society and I have to show all sides of them."<br /><br />When quizzed about the reality of her characters who "sleep with their make up on," Ekta said,"I see it that way and I like it that way. I don't have to explain my choices to the critics."<br /><br />Citing a scene from the Bollywood film "Dirty Picture", which she co-produced Ekta said, "The day you start thinking about what others think about you or say about you, you end up ruining yourself."<br /><br />Ekta said she wished to make films and serials on biographies.<br /><br />"I see the 'Dirty Picture' as a biography and I have many such biographies in my mind. But I have not convinced myself to any such book where the story and narrative appeals to me visually as well," she said.<br /><br />Ekta's session at the Festival was interrupted by activists of a Rajput outfit who protested against the presence of filmmaker, objecting to the title of her TV serial 'Jodha Akbar'. <br /></p>