"I have undergone a special exercise and yoga regime to get curvy." - Kavita Kaushik

Kavita Kaushik is back and how!

 

We saw her as Chandramukhi Chautala in SAB TV's hit show F.I.R and now the lady don is back again to woo the audience with her recently launched Dr. Bhanumati On Duty. In conversation with Kavita, the bold and beautiful actress speaks about her contentment on returning to the channel with her new show! 

It feels great to be back working on SAB TV. It's a great channel. A known territory and known people. It's been my territory for 9 years so I have always had a great association working with the channel. I am very happy and glad that they have given me such a wonderful and crazy character like Dr. Bhanumati to play yet again. They have given me such a beautiful and big playground to show my acting prowess and I think only SAB TV makes these happy shows and happy larger than life characters, and this channel gives one that platform and I am very happy to be back on SAB TV.

 

Dr. Bhanumati on duty is a hospital comedy and there are these amazing crazy cases and patients that come into this hospital and Dr. Bhanumati cures them with alternate treatment and her own style of medical treatment which is very interesting, funny, surprising and shocking. Basically, it is all in one. As her name suggests Bhanumati Bhinn - Bhinn bhinn tareeko se ilaaj karti hai.

 

Although Bhanumati and Chandramukhi share a lot of strong basic qualities like courage, fighting for justice, helping other people, bravery there is a certain amount of difference in their personalities; one is their origin. Chandramukhi belonged to Haryana so she spoke Haryanvi. Bhanumati belongs to Rajasthan, she is a Maharaja's daughter and she speaks Rajasthani. 

Unlike Chandramukhi, Bhanumati is very feminine yet she is very intimidating. People around her are usually scared of her. She has a lot of colour and flair of adaayein and a lot of naaz and style in a very womanly manner. Chandramukhi was like one of the boys, Bhanumati is the lady and apart from having a lot of womanly anecdotes, she is extremely strong and intimidating and speaks very highly of women empowerment. Every time I say, unlike Chandramukhi, I also say like Chandramukhi because somewhere you could look at them as two very strong individuals, definitely different personalities. That is where the challenge lies to play them differently so that they look like two different people although played by the same person. But they share a lot of basic integral qualities but yet they are very different.

 

I have in fact done a special exercise and yoga regime to make my body look different from how I used to look as Chandramukhi where I had a leaner body. For Bhanumati, I have worked out and indulged in certain exercises which make me look curvy and gives my body a feminine body language. A lot of intense research has gone behind the character of Bhanumati.

 

Well, I guess my name is synonym with action when it comes to television. I love doing all my action and stunts myself and yes we have shot the first promo which is a full on action promo. Apart from that, as in when in the episode, in fact, my introduction is a very high voltage action introduction and time and again in the show, very often we will have a lot of action. And of course, I will be doing it all by myself because that's what my amusement park is; coming to shoot and knowing there is an action sequence and there are fight masters on the set. I feel like I have walked into an amusement park and I am going to sit on some amazing rides. That gives me a great adrenaline rush and makes me very happy. So for sure you will be seeing me do a lot of action. 

 

I go 9 years back with Gopi ji. I have seen him every day for 9 years of my life which is a very long association. In fact, today when we met at the shoot for the first time for this show, it was a very emotional moment and he came and hugged me like he has never before and I could feel in that hug that he really missed working together and spending time together, because we used to have a great time and I must say that I am very naughty especially with my co-actors. I feel if you don't have fun in the day and don't laugh, it gets really boring because we do comedy and it's the toughest genre to depict and perform. While doing comedy, you need to be very happy and in a good mood. I used to play a lot of pranks on people and mostly it would be Gopi ji because he is very sweet and innocent and I love pulling his leg. I am looking forward to playing a lot more pranks on him.

Well said, Kavita!