by Subhash K Jha

It was three nights of vigorous action scenes. At the end of it, Kavya the popular hero on Star Plus' Kavyanjali is dead.

"It still hasn't sunk in as yet, " says Eijaz on Monday, the night after his "death".

"I feel an emptiness inside. For one whole year the unit of Kayvanjali has been my family, so much so that I've spent more time in my vanity van than at home. My brothers on the soap were like my real brothers.

But no, Amrita Singh wasn't like my real mom. She's too cool, too chilled out to fit into the mom's image and too dignified to be part of the masti that we did on the sets."

What masti ? "Oh you know, fooling around, blowing kisses at each other, shouting screaming dancing and playing the fool."

So does Eijaz plan to keep in touch with the Kavya crew? "I don't think so. One moves on. I'm back today after shooting the dead scene last night for Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka."

Eijaz likes doing his own stunts. "It's been three days of really hectic work for me. I've been jumping from one parapet to another, trying to save my screen son.

Two days into the shooting, I was dangling four feet above ground level when I suddenly felt something give way. I thought this was it. But nothing happened. That incident jolted me out of my woozy state."

Eijaz hadn't slept for more than forty-eight hours. "It was a crucial juncture in the plot. And we needed to finish Kavya's track with as much finesse as possible. I'm going to miss being part of Kavyanjali. But what the hell? Everything ends in life."