REALITY BYTES WITH THE B-TOWN WIVES!

HELLO! GOT CHATTY WITH THE ULTIMATE DRAMA QUEENS. MEET MAHEEP KAPOOR, NEELAM KOTHARI SONI, BHAVANA PANDEY AND SEEMA KIRAN SAJDEH, AS THEY EXPAND ON FRIENDSHIP, FIGHTING THEIR OWN LIPSTICK WARS AND THEIR CHERISHED ‘LMAO’ MOMENTS

- SANGEETA WADDHWANI

There was a time a Bollywife was considered a demure creature, enmeshed in domestic bliss, in a league of her own. Today’s Bollywives, however, are in quite a different league of their own. They wear their attitude on the hip and shoot from the lip. Shoot at them, and they shoot right back, tapping into a reservoir of chic ‘F’ and ‘B’ bombs.

Although the media called them the ‘B-Lite’ of Bollywood (and not the ‘E-Lite’, given that their husbands are no cult heroes), Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives pandered well to the curious diaspora and subscribers who love all things film. So though the pandemic currents stood in stark contrast to the wives, in angst over missing domestics and bad wine, the show hit the voyeuristic streak in couch-locked populations. Their next season, they claim, resonates better with the post-pandemic shifts: “We are more introspective” they chime, collectively.

While we look forward to getting insights into how today’s Bollywives call the shots far beyond the domestic frontier, multitasking across passions, protecting her star kids’ interests, keeping ungainly kilos at bay, botoxing on candid cam, escorting the ‘B-Lite’ husbands to premiers, parties and rarely, location shoots, we’ll see the deeper cracks in their gilded lives. A little more gut than just glory.