Ek Thi Daayan

Ekta Kapoor is not an easy person to work with, it is said. Ditto for Vishal Bharadwaj. Both have a firm footing in the film industry as formidable forces - pioneers, even, in daring to push boundaries in an attempt to give you meaningful entertainment. So when they joined hands to present a supernatural thriller, a little drama was inevitable.

To begin with, Ekta Kapoor reportedly did not promote the film with her usual gusto. She must have been miffed, what with reshooting parts of the movie (Huma Qureshi, for example, lost weight, then gained, then had to lose it again for th....