Kavita Choudhry, actor
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A brief biography
February 17, 2024: The Times of India
New Delhi/Amritsar: In the summer of 1984, evenings changed in India. Hum Log, India’s first television soap, had arrived. Within weeks, the lives of Basesar Ram’s family became a conversation point in drawing rooms. Over the next few years, a s the number of sponsored TV shows mushroomed, the idea of a well-spent evening got redefined.
Udaan (Flight) arrived in 1989. The long-running serial was about a spirited girl who overcomes financial worries and gender barriers to become a police officer. Kavita Choudhry not only played the protagonist but also wrote and directed the show.
Udaan, which ran till 1991, was inspired by the life of Kavita’s sister, Kanchan Choudhry Bhattacharya, India’s second woman IPS officer and the first woman director general of police.
Actor-director Shekhar Kapur wrote on X, “So many women now in high positions in Indian Civil Services come to me and say they were in- spired by Udaan.”
Amritsar-born Kavita had earlier become a familiar face modelling for Surf a s the fictional character Lalita-ji.
Kavita was introduced to the big screen by producer-director Bhimsain’s (Gharaonda, Dooriyan) in Tum Laut Aao (1983). But the film was little seen; it was the small screen that earned her fame.In later years, she acted in several television serials, such as Your Honour and IPS Diaries. She also wrote Satish Kaushik’s Badhaai Ho Badhaai (2002). The actor-director lived in Amritsar’s Garden Enclave with her nephew Ajay Sayal, an advocate, after the death of her elder sister, Kanchan, in 2019.
