The one blind spot in her reputation as India's youngest female tycoon was film production. `Kya Kool Hain Hum' has taken care of that. "After three duds as a producer (`Kyunkii Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta,' `Kuchh To Hai' and `Krishna Cottage'), I finally have a hit on my hands, never mind a raunchy hit, as I'm constantly reminded. I'm not ashamed or apologetic about `Kya Kool...' It was always meant to be a sex comedy. Audiences couldn't have gone to it thinking it was a mythological [film]."
Now Ekta really warms up to the topic. "And how come we giggle and chuckle at the off-colour humour in `American Pie,' but faint in horror at the same in a Hindi film?"
Speaking of horror, Ekta isn't giving up that genre. "My mom looks at me with horror each time I mention making another horror film. But I love horror films. I love Ram Gopal Varma's cinema. That's what I'd like to make. But for now I've decided to make two films. One will be a romantic comedy with my brother Tusshar and a new girl in the lead. We'll launch a nation-wide star hunt for the new girl in collaboration with a TV channel."
Lucky Tusshar. Behen ho to aisi. "Yeah I love my Tusky," Ekta gets as mushy as one of the ladies in her soap. "In fact I postponed my birthday party by a week for my brother who is out of the country... And by the way, I've thought of the ideal return gift for him... a sequel to `Kya Kool Hain Hum!' Ha ha."
No that isn't a joke. Tusshar gets to team up with Riteish again for a sequel. "I had to do it!" protests the TV-turned-film-magnate. "They were clamouring for it. Tusshar and Riteish have become such a hit pair. They've been offered four films together." That's more than the hit pair of the season, Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra, is doing. Ekta chuckles at the thought.
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