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Cool kid Kaivalya

The name, Kaivalya Chheda, does not ring a bell. But the face instantly does. He is the chubby kid in the Cadbury’s Gems commercial. Even Peppy features him as their hot favourite. However, for some reasons Kaivalya cannot fathom, he has already acquired the image of a villain! In fact, he is turning out be the film and television industry’s most favoured young baddie. “I don’t know why they want me to be the bad kid. All the directors are giving me roles where I have to play the naughty child. They like to give me such roles. What do I do?” asks this fourth standard kid in all seriousness.

He is playing the bad kid in the tele-serials Custom Files and Munna Raja. Both are yet to come on air. “In Custom Files, I’m not really very bad. But then, the director asked me to be very naughty. I’m a detective in this serial. In Munna Raja, I’m a very bad kid and my name is Rocky. In this serial, I am supposed to create trouble for everybody around,” he says with a shy smile.

In Devgan Productions’ Raju Chacha, he plays Pramod Moutho’s son who helps his father in his attempt to snatch the fantasy home of Rishi Kapoor. A query on whether he idolises any villain brings forth a very vehement “No”.
In Hera Pheri too, he is one of the 12 kids in the film. Here too, his job is to trouble all the other children. “Sunil Shetty doesn’t like me because I keep troubling others but Tabu likes me. I even have one song in this film,” he told. In Sunny Deol’s Champion, Keval is playing Abhishek’s best friend. Sunny, in his attempt to safeguard Abhishek, doesn’t allow him to play out. Kaivalya’s job is to find ways to outwit Sunny and make him move out of the house. “I enjoyed doing
this film,” he exults.

Besides films and television, Kaivalya is doing quite a few commercials for chocolates, mints and other children’s products. “But ads are nothing new. I’ve been doing them since quite some time,” he says airily.

This little villain on screen is a cool kid off it. He likes to be courteous rather than pompous. In between his shots, he prefers to listen to some music on his walkman rather than chatting away with other unit members. His favourite music? Patriotic songs! “I like them a lot.” Pop and other songs are good, but only for a change, he says with a cute smile. But once the camera is on, the chubby little face takes on a mean, nasty look, quite effortlessly.

N.G.