Water Mess

Water mess!

Chavvi Mittal, of Twinkle Beauty Parlour, forgot to turn off her kitchen tap and woke up in a flooded house

Aditi Jayakar Kane

As if the heavy downpour outside wasn't enough, actress Chavvi Mittal also had to deal with water-logging at home, courtesy an oversight on her part. Chavvi who stars in Twinkle Beauty Parlour had invited some of her co-stars to dinner on Sunday night. While the party was a success, the next day turned out to be a real dampener. Chavvi forgot to turn off her kitchen tap that night. The next morning, she and her husband, Mohit Hussain, woke up to see their entire apartment filled with water, albeit only two-inches deep.

"I had called my friends from the industry to my new place in Oshiwara. I shifted here after marriage. We spent a lot of time doing it up. I had invited Dimple Inamdar, Ada, Krutika, Kartika and others. I cooked the food. When they arrived, I showed them around the house and we had a lovely time," she says.

After the guests left, Chavvi dumped the dishes in the kitchen sink. "Since we don't have water supply during the night, I didn't realise that the kitchen tap was turned on."

The couple did not realise that the water had overflowed the sink and had spread throughout the apartment. It was only the next morning, at around 9, that the neighbours rang their doorbell. "When I got out of bed, I stepped right into the water. I was shocked. I woke up Mohit and we were both stunned. We opened the door and there were our neighbours telling us that water was flowing out of our house," she says.

After that the duo had a lot of cleaning to do. "My entire house is carpeted. We have carpets in the kitchen and in the bathroom too! So you can imagine the state of the apartment. My husband and I kept directing the water to the bathroom," says Chavvi. "Our entire day was spent in cleaning the apartment!" she sighs.

Nevertheless, the actress is relieved that her house wasn't too badly damaged. "I had to discard some carpets, but they weren't very expensive. I spent a lot of time ironing and drying the more expensive carpets." She regrets throwing away her favourite carpet, the one in the living room. "It was green and beige in colour and it perfectly matched the colour scheme of my living room," she says.

In fact, this isn't the first time that Chavvi has faced such a predicament. Last July, her neighbours who owned the flat above hers had left their tap on. "The water flooded their apartment and made my ceiling leak!" says Chavvi. Quite a dj vu, we might add.

• When I got out of bed, I stepped right into the water. I was shocked. I woke up Mohit and we were both stunned. We opened the door and there were our neighbours telling us that water was flowing out of our house— Chavvi Mittal