How have people reacted to Kittie Party?
Kittie Party was a gut reaction to the ‘retrograde’ serials currently on air. I grabbed the opportunity to use Kittie Party as a device to project contemporary women and narrate a true to life story. The serial wouldn’t have been accepted a decade back as it would have been considered to be an elitist past time. I have been surprised by the response from people in different walks of life. This proves that the premise of female bonding and women meeting one another to discuss their lives is being accepted in several places in the country. In fact, even within Mumbai, there are suburban kitty parties, multi-millionaire kitty parties and middle-class kitty parties. People have reacted in a favourable manner and this response has come from metros as well as smaller towns such as Indore, Nagpur and Coimbatore. These people who reside in small towns didn’t know me as an author of English novels. Now they have started reading my work. Writing for Kittie Party and the promotional media blitz a
