Chavi on tantrums and falling TRPs

Chavi Mittal, the ever sacrificing and goody two shoes Disha in the serial Tumhari Disha created quite a storm in real life when she stormed off the sets while shooting was yet to get over. The actress swears that she wasn't acting high and mighty though. She clarifies, "Thursday is my weekly off which I utilise for completing a lot of pending jobs. A day before my weekly off we couldn't shoot because of technical problem with the equipment. The entire day got wasted and two very important scenes had to be shot the next day. I agreed to shoot from 7 am to 12 noon because I had a very important meeting at 1 pm. Not only did I shoot for those two scenes but they also made me shoot two more scenes, which I did without saying anything. After that they wanted to shoot the serial's new promo about which I was not informed before. I refused and left the set at 12.15 pm and ended up missing on the appointment as well."

Well, the promo she refused to shoot was a very important one as the producers wanted to highlight the serials twists and turns in it to get the audience glued. Like the ups and downs in Disha's life, the show too has been going through a lot of ups and downs. It has experienced a loss in TRPs and has currently slipped from its number one position to number four.

But this doesn't make Chavi insecure as she reasons, "It happens with old serials. When new shows are introduced viewers pay more attention to them. I don't see any other reason for the drop." She feels Tumhaari Disha should see a rise in TRPs thanks to the latest twist in the tale that happened just two episodes ago. Sudha Chandran who plays a negative character has been scheming and plotting against Disha without knowing that she is her daughter.

"When it was revealed it came as a major shock to everyone," elaborates Chavi. Earlier too Disha had a major jolt when she discovered that Vedant, the man she trusted, was out to ruin her life. "Such spikes are part of the story which have a bearing on Disha's relationship with DK," says Chavi. Though she is doing television for the last two years she doesn't watch much of TV. Soaps are just not her cup of tea.

"You can't connect with the happenings if you are not a regular viewer." However, if she is tuned in she prefers watching music and film channels. And it comes as no surprise that the TV actors she bonds with happen to be her co-stars. Her favourite television actors include Zareena Wahab, Krutika Desai and Ashish Nayyar.

She doesn't have many friends in the television industry. "Dimple Ghosh, Krutika and Rakhi are the few friends I have," says Chavi who has found her friends in Tumhaari Disha whom she meets on the serial's sets. "When you are working for 25 days in a month there's hardly any time to visit each other or meet outside." The remaining five days are reserved for holidaying.

"Holidays are a must to relax and rejuvenate myself for the next schedule," says Chavi whose holiday destinations include hill stations like Matheran and Lonavala, coastal holiday spots such as Daman and Goa and Delhi (where her parents live). But she prefers Goa, the most because of the sea and its lovely beaches