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Byline: Daphne Beal
It's a little after midnight, and Ekta Kapoor, India's biggest soap-opera producer, is in the middle of her workday. Seated at the center of her luxuriously minimalist living room in her triplex in the Mumbai suburb of Juhu, she is getting her hair blown out by a stylist before she catches a flight to Mauritius in a few hours to film one of her hit shows. Meanwhile, the creative staff of her top show-make that the top show in all of India, seen by 47 million viewers, whose title translates as Because Mother-in-Law Was Once a Daughter-in-Law, Too-buzzes around her. At one wall, a DVD of young male actors auditioning for a role plays on a ...