Udaan actress Kavita Chaudhary dead

Neha Saini

Amritsar, February 16

Actor Kavita Chaudhary, who played the iconic characters of “Lalitaji’ and as IPS officer Kalyani Singh in the Doordarshan series Udaan, passed away following a cardiac arrest here at the age of 67. She was cremated in presence of family members, including her brother Kapil Chaudhary and friends in Amritsar.

Inspiring an entire generation of women though her onscreen avatar of an ambitious and gritty woman IPS officer in Udaan, Kavita Choudhary had shared that her role in the popular show had been inspired from her own elder sister, Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya, who was the second woman IPS officer in service after Kiran Bedi. Born and brought up in Amritsar, Kavita did her schooling from Shri Ram Ashram School and later pursued her higher education from Hindu College. “Kavita and her sister Kanchan were both quite ahead of the others, always striving to do something that broke the stereotypes. Despite hailing from an affluent business family, both worked hard to make their own mark and succeeded. Now, with both of them gone, it is a great loss to city community, who had seen them achieve the milestones they did,” shared Ashok Sethi, a city-based businessman and friend of Kanchan Chaudhary. Kavita’s ancestral home is inside Hall Gate.