We have heard many times that creative inspiration can come from strangest of places but it seems like it stood true for the Netflix’s show Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives. Karan Johar has been friends with the four women for decades and came up with the idea of making a show with them on a flight apparently while flying to a condolence meeting in Delhi.

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The reality show followed the lives of four star wives Seema Khan, Maheep Kapoor, Neelam Kothari and Bhavana Panday. The show was produced by Karan’s production house Dharma Production. 

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Last night Janice Sequeira hosted a Clubhouse meeting called the Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives reunion where Karan revealed how he came up with the idea for the show. He said, “These four ladies are very special to me and have been for nearly two-and-a-half decades. But I want to tell you, the origin of this show happened on a flight. We took a flight to Delhi, we were actually going for a condolence meeting. One of our friends lost their father. We were on a flight to Delhi and that’s when I realised, and I have always known it, that these four women are completely crazy,”

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He added, “Because we were discussing our attires, much like Madhur Bhandarkar’s Page 3, whether Neelam had too much shine on her white kurta or whether Maheep was underdressed for a chautha. It was inappropriate and it was idiotic and it was so much fun that I said that the four of them have to be on a show. They made something even like a chautha sound like such a massive problem in what they were wearing to what was happening. And it was like they were talking nonsense. And then when we reached, we had to play-act that we were really sad, and on our flight back, we were talking rubbish,”

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He also thought the four women were candid and naturals in front of the camera and needed to be on a show. “But I really thought that they need to be on camera because I thought that barring Neelam, who is a bona fide star and has faced the camera for 40 films, the other three were technically virgins to the camera and I think they were naturals.”

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There have been talks of Season 2 doing the rounds. The first season of the show got mixed reviews from the audience while some settled on calling it a ‘guilty pleasure’. 

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