'Ye Hai Mohabbatein' is about motherhood: Ekta Kapoor

New Star Plus daily show Ye Hai Mohabbatein has rocked the producer Ekta Kapoor who is really emotional about it. In a chat with newsmen, she talks about love, motherhood and her decision to be personally more involved in television now, as it gives her a chance to be more creative, compared to films.


Telling about her new serial which is telecast Monday to Friday at 11 pm Ekta says Hai Mohabbatein is about women who in our society are considered in completed if they can not bear a child. A year-and a half ago, she read a book called Custody by Manju Kapur. She is one of her favourite writers because she writes about Indian women, Indian families and the social and personal struggles. Ishita, the protagonist, for her is a very interesting character. She has a fertility problem. Basically, this show is a beautiful journey of a woman, who falls in love with a child and marries a man whom she doesn't like, only because of the child. It's the ultimate destination for women to become mothers. Of course, it's a beautiful feeling, but the pressure is too much. Many marriages even break up if they are unable to bear a child. Ye Hai Mohabbatein is about being a mother without really becoming one.

She says that she was trying in her own humble way to fight the social prejudice which women face if they cannot bear children. Why can't we accept that women who adopts a child can be great mothers? This step mother syndrome has been so strong in our minds that we automatically assume that if she's not the biological mother, she will be a bad mother. Motherhood is an emotion. It doesn't have to be a natural physical development.

Ekta reveals that she herself will like to adopt a baby even if she has her own.

The producer director explain that the issues of infertility, divorce, remarriage etc need to be addressed artistically without fearing the fall in the ratings. The world is changing so should we and our serials.

Ekta admits that she started the Saas Bahu genre and is proud of it, because in small towns these are the real issues agonizing the women world. For a long time, we did change the social fabric of the country because women started taking decisions at home. They identified with strong characters and felt empowered.

For the last one year, Ekta has been busy with films, but after her last release in August, she has the space and she is focusing on TV. In fact, I have had a conversation with my CEOs where I have told them that I will now be taking up a stronger role on TV and will give them full independence in what they want to do in films.