Hasn’t been a stable moment: Kalki on 10 years in Bollywood
Kalki Koechlin describes her decade-long journey in Bollywood as “mercurial”; navigating through ups and downs and looking for calm in the unstable industry. Having made her debut with Anurag Kashyap’s “Dev D” in 2009, the actor went on to star in several acclaimed films, from “Shaitaan”, “Margarita With A Straw”, “Waiting” to the recent “Gully Boy”. “These ten years have been mercurial, lots of ups and downs. I don’t think there has been a stable moment. It’s all or nothing. There were years I had five releases and there were years I had none,” Kalki told DIN. The actor says with time the mediums for an artiste have grown and she is making the most of it. “I’m now doing web, podcast, theatre and films. There seems to be a lot on the platter. At the end of the day, I am not so concerned about the medium. I’m concerned about the content and what kind of challenges I can bring for myself. “There’s so much stereotyping that happens that you’ve to really be like ‘ok, can I do this in a different way?'” A part of the challenge was when she was offered the second season of Netflix India Original “Sacred Games”. The show came her way when she was going through some changes in her personal life and was in the middle of dubbing for one of her other web series. Having seen and liked the first season, directed by Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, Kalki felt “pressured” when she got an audition call.
