Having completed her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and City Planning at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, Kavita Srinivasan worked in Los Angeles for a year-and-a-half as an urban designer. However, her interests lay somewhere else.
“That is when I started taking acting classes,” said Srinivasan, who added, “I enjoyed it so much that I left my architecture job.”
She started her acting career in 2006, with roles in various theatre productions, advertisements and movies in Nepal. After working with One World Theatre, an English-language theatre company in Kathmandu, she left for her homeland India, to pursue a career in acting. “In the four years that I was there, I struggled and managed to learn a great deal,” said Srinivasan. She acted in Telugu film Kalicharan, Tamil film Aadhiyum Andhamum, and Hindi movie Kurbaan, during her time there.
Srinivasan came back to Kathmandu in 2010, and after a brief hiatus she returned to the stage earlier this year as one of the leading actors in One World Theatre’s interpretation of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics in Kathmandu.
Apart from theatre performances, Srinivasan is currently directing, writing the script and acting in the web series PS Zindagi (PS denotes ‘Post-Seismic’). Directed by Utpal Jha, the series explores the lives of a group of five youngsters, who belong to different castes and religions, after the April 2015 earthquake. Along with Srinivasan and Jha, the other actors are Rajkumar Pudasaini, Sujata Koirala and Kalsang Lama.
Having garnered immense popularity on YouTube, the web series has been nominated as an entry in the Marseille Web Fest (International Festival of Digital Series) to be held in France in October. Claiming it to be one of the most prestigious film festivals for web series, Srinivasan said: “I feel we have started something good.”