Lavanya Tripathi plans a nature cafe

Lavanya Tripathi plans to take her love for nature to the next level as she decides to start a café in the hills near Mussoorie. However, the café will not be a typically commercial one but a place where she and her family and friends can come to rejuvenate.

Speaking to us about her planned venture, she says, “We recently bought a piece of farmland in Chamasari, a village on the hilltop (near Mussoorie). Although we live in Dehradun, we  wanted to build a house here in this farmland as we keep visiting here to unwind.”

Lavanya Tripathi chilling at Chamasari near Mussoorie

The Bhale Bhale Magadivoy star  has been already finding ways to integrate her activities with nature. For instance, the actress, who’d been practising Pilates for a few years and had to stop them due to the COVID lockdowns, has restarted the practice at a cool empty place next to her Dehradun house.

Keeping with her love of nature, the actress had apparently also planted around twenty-five saplings last year. So it’s understandable when she tells us excitedly that she has always wanted to transform the farmland in Chamsari into more than just an accommodation. She hopes to turn the place more into a nature retreat for her family and friends.

Lavanya Tripathi practising Pilates

“My father had initially wanted a proper house built at this place, but the rest of us made him understand that it’s not a good idea because of the topography,” says the Andala Rakshasi actress.

“Moreover, I practice and want to promote sustainable living, and this cafe is a step in that direction.” So also, while her family has been weighing options on how to go about building a house and a café Lavanya is chipping in with inputs on how eco-friendly and nature-aligned the constructions can be.

In fact, Lavanya sees the idea of spending time in a café amid the beautiful mountains with a river in the backdrop as a perfect nature’s retreat. “The whole idea is not to destroy nature or the ecology of the place. Hence, even the café would be built using natural elements,” the former Miss Uttarakhand states, adding that they hope people come to Chamasari for camping. “This vibrant place would be more like a resort where people can spend some happy time together.”

Lavanya has an exciting line up of films that will resume shooting once things settle down. And she has been insistent on picking up scripts that challenge her as an actor. “My last few films demanded a complete transformation from me, not just physically but looks-wise too. It has been a learning curve that has let me discover myself in the process,” says the actress, who also believes filmmaking may undergo a sea change, due to the pandemic. “There’ll be fewer crew members on the sets and filmmakers will come up with more innovative ideas to shoot with lesser discomfort.”