Kavi Shastri

Some Lesser Known Facts About Kavi Shastri

• Does Kavi Shastri smoke?: No

• Does Kavi Shastri drink alcohol?: Yes

• Kavi Shastri was born and brought up in London. According to him, he was never good at studies as well as sports.

• He grew an interest in dancing at a tender age. His parents understood his interest and enrolled him in a local dance academy. He is a trained in ballet, tap dancing, drama, hip hop, musical theatre, jazz and a few more dance forms.

• Along with dancing he also joined ‘The Padmini Kholapuri School of Acting’ in London, where he started acting in small plays and theatre.

• Kavi Shastri was still in school when he did small appearances on ITV’s ‘This Morning’ and BBC One’s ‘Holby City’. Later he also became a part of the three seasons of CBBC’s ‘UGetMe’ (2003) and many other British film projects.

• After graduating Kavi Shastri came to India and joined Anupam Kher’s Actor Prepares for improving his acting skills.

• When Kavi Shastri was graduated in performing arts he was also awarded by the Academy for his achievement in Drama.

• He created India’s first Comedy Company ‘Weirdass Comedy’ (2010) along with his friend Vir Das, with whom he had met on the sets of ‘Love Aaj kal’ (2009).

• He has also worked as a scriptwriter for Filmfare Awards, Zee Cine Awards and Stardust Awards.

• Kavi Sharma also became popular for his standup comedy with Vir Das in the ‘Ashvin Gidwani’s History of India’ (2014) comedy show.

• He also hosted a TV show named ‘Love By Chance’ in 2014.