Kalki Koechlin

Kalki Koechlin

Born: January 9, 1983
in Pondicherry, India
Kalki Koechlin is an Indian actress and screenwriter of French ethnicity, who predominantly works in Bollywood. Apart from acting in films, she is also a regular presence in theatre productions in India. Koechlin is the recipient of a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award and two Screen Awards. Drawn to theatre at a young age, Koechlin studied drama and theatre at University of London, and worked simultaneously with a local theatre company. After returning to India, she made her screen debut in the romantic drama Dev.D in 2009, and her performance as Chandramukhi earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress. She then starred in the comedy-dramas Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013).

Movies for Kalki Koechlin...

Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
Title: Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
Character: Simran Kohli
Released: December 26, 2023
Type: Movie
Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media.
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Sam Bahadur
Title: Sam Bahadur
Released: December 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on the life of Sam Manekshaw, who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.
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Goldfish
Title: Goldfish
Character: Anamika Fields
Released: September 1, 2023
Type: Movie
With help from a neighbourhood and a past she has shunned, a young woman returns home to deal with her mother's dementia and the scars of her childhood.
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New Normal
Title: New Normal
Character: Herself
Released: May 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Is the past the future we want ?
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Switchh
Title: Switchh
Released: April 23, 2021
Type: Movie
SWITCHH as an action movie about friendship, love and betrayal, the plot revolves around three con artists who use their charm to dupe wealthy victims out of cash.
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The New Normal
Title: The New Normal
Character: Voice over
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Is the past the future we want ? The race to get back to normal made us question this very idea of normalcy itself – Is it normal that our planet is dying because of our economic priorities? Is it normal when lockdowns only protect the rich while the economically disadvantaged are left jobless and take to the streets? Is it normal that our children and relationships are dependent on the thin addictive threads of technology Is it normal that we live in a world without kindness? This film uses poetry and visual metaphor to explore these questions.
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Title: Paava Kadhaigal
Character: Penelope
Released: December 18, 2020
Type: TV
At times dark, at times disturbing, four short films explore stories of those who dare to dream and desire — and those determined to stand in their way.
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Kadakh
Title: Kadakh
Character: Francoise Marie
Released: November 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door is the husband of Chhaya, a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The man asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive.
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Title: Bhram
Character: Alisha Khanna
Released: October 24, 2019
Type: TV
A car accident turns Alisha Khanna's life upside down. The bestselling romance writer moves to Shimla to her sister's place in order to start over. However, she starts getting visions of a girl. At first, she dismisses it as hallucinations due to her PTSD. However, she finds out that the girl had died 20 years ago. On the pretext of writing a book, she starts investigating into the matter and finds striking evidence which otherwise could never be found. Things point to certain prominent people of the place, but then they end up dying one by one. Alisha doesn't know that she has put her own life in danger. How far will one woman go to give justice to a dead girl? The answer lies in that incident which happened 20 years ago. The incident which shall tell the world - The Other Side of Her story.
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Nerkonda Paarvai
Title: Nerkonda Paarvai
Character: Cameo
Released: August 8, 2019
Type: Movie
When three young women are harassed and implicated in a crime they didn't commit, a bipolar lawyer sets out to help them clear their names and prove it to everyone that a woman's consent matters.
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Title: Social Media Star With Janice Sequeira
Character: Herself
Released: March 14, 2019
Type: TV
Social Media Star with Janice is a talk show where mainstream celebrities and new-age internet sensations sit down with host and creator, Janice Sequeira to discuss how the digital age has completely overhauled life as we know it.
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Title: Made in Heaven
Character: Faiza Naqvi
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: TV
The story of two wedding planners in Delhi, where tradition jostles with modern aspirations against the backdrop of big fat Indian weddings revealing many secrets and lies.
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Gully Boy
Title: Gully Boy
Character: Shweta / Sky
Released: February 14, 2019
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.
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Gully Boy: Live In Concert
Title: Gully Boy: Live In Concert
Character: Herself
Released: February 14, 2019
Type: Movie
The revolution is here. Witness gully rap rises from the streets of Mumbai to the biggest stage in the history of Indian hip-hop. This is an Amazon Prime Exclusive documentary on film Gully Boy's music launch and concert in mumbai.
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Title: Smoke
Character: Tara
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: TV
Set in Goa, Smoke explores the dark web of drugs, mafia, and power. With the cartels at war, who will survive?
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Title: Sacred Games
Character: Batya Abelman
Released: July 6, 2018
Type: TV
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.
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Candyflip
Title: Candyflip
Released: December 11, 2017
Type: Movie
Every year, Goa, one of the biggest party and holiday hosts to the world, welcomes infinite number of tourists. Most of them go back once the season gets over. Few choose to stay back, digging deeper into the traces of a hippie hangover, or trying to search oneself through the incandescent, colorful, trippy shores of Goa. And a few yet, get in so deep at the wrong end of paradise, that they are lost forever, in the same place, but in a whole different world altogether. The film takes one such real-life character - Roy - through a plethora of happenings, phenomena, legends, myths, sights, sounds, experiences and thrilling stories of the fabled Goan paradise. What happens to the protagonist through the bitter-sweet, darkly funny, crazy, trippy journey and what comes along at the end of it, weaves the half-fictitious/half-real story of our film - CandyFlip.
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Ribbon
Title: Ribbon
Character: Sahana Mehra
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: Movie
A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges.
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Jia aur Jia
Title: Jia aur Jia
Character: Jia
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
A story about two starkly different women that share the same name. Together, they embark on a life-changing journey heading towards the same fate.
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Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent
Title: Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent
Released: August 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar and Indian actor Kalki Koechlin take an inspiring and stunning transnational journey through India and Pakistan, uncovering the common humanity beyond the divisive political rhetoric.
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A Death in the Gunj
Title: A Death in the Gunj
Character: Mitali "Mimi"
Released: June 2, 2017
Type: Movie
A sensitive university student unraveling while on a week-long vacation with a crowd of cocksure relatives and family friends.
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Mantra
Title: Mantra
Character: Piya Kapoor
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1991, the Government of India opened up the economy and unleashed the forces of globalization, forever changing the landscape of the country. A dozen years later, India was celebrating its emergence as a global economic super power. Set in 2004, in the midst of a nationwide 'India Shining' campaign, the film Mantra tells the intimate story of a family and its travails, and through it, the story of the New India. The protagonist of the film is Kapil Kapoor, the founder of an iconic Indian snack brand in the 'License Raj' old India. But today - in 2004 - he is fighting a losing battle against a multinational that has taken over the market. But it is not just his company that Kapil is desperately trying to save; it is also his own wife and children who are battling their own crises.
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Waiting
Title: Waiting
Character: Tara Deshpande
Released: May 27, 2016
Type: Movie
While visiting his comatose wife in the hospital, a serene old professor befriends a vibrant young woman whose husband has also fallen into a coma.
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Un + une
Title: Un + une
Character: Kalki
Released: December 9, 2015
Type: Movie
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
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Title: Man's World
Character: Promotion Announcer
Released: September 29, 2015
Type: TV
Man’s World, the first original Y-Films series, is a what if. What if women treated men, the way men treat women. It is a story about walking a mile in their shoes, in that world. What if women treated men, the way men treat women? A story about walking a mile in their shoes, in that world.
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Kaash
Title: Kaash
Character: Cameo
Released: August 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Frustrated with his dwindling relationship, Aadil, a dreamy young photographer, spontaneously sets off to meet a girl he has connected with over the vast universe of the Internet. Far from the urban dystopia of Bombay he falls into Khushali's simple world of earthly delights. In her, he finds strains of Samira, as she was and as she has become.
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Margarita with a Straw
Title: Margarita with a Straw
Character: Laila Kapoor
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.
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Happy Ending
Title: Happy Ending
Character: Vishakha
Released: November 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Yudi’s happy life is about to encounter a speed breaker-his BMW gets towed away and his dues have started piling up. He’s run out of money and luck! To make matters worse-his supposed ex-girlfriend isn’t really his ex.
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Title: Son of Abish
Character: Herself
Released: February 1, 2014
Type: TV
Son Of Abish is a variety comedy talk show with host Abish Mathew.
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Title: Comedy Nights with Kapil
Character: Self
Released: June 22, 2013
Type: TV
Comedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life of a common man as the show explores the story of every household and how our common man Kapil is affected by the simplest issues in life around him.
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Title: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Character: Aditi Mehra
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: Movie
On a trekking trip, an introverted Naina falls for a charming ex-classmate, whose thirst for adventure drives them apart. Years later, their paths cross again.
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Ek Thi Daayan
Title: Ek Thi Daayan
Character: Lisa Dutt
Released: April 18, 2013
Type: Movie
A popular magician seeks help from a psychiatrist to protect him from a witch that has haunted him since childhood.
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Shanghai
Title: Shanghai
Character: Shalini Sahay
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop.
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My Friend Pinto
Title: My Friend Pinto
Character: Maggie
Released: October 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Sweet, honest, and optimistic Michael Pinto has a knack for finding trouble. The search for a childhood friend leads him to the big city, and into an outlandish adventure.
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Trishna
Title: Trishna
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2011
Type: Movie
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
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Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Title: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Character: Natasha Arora
Released: July 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?
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Shaitan
Title: Shaitan
Character: Amrita "Amy" Jayshankar
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.
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That Girl in Yellow Boots
Title: That Girl in Yellow Boots
Character: Ruth Edscer
Released: September 13, 2010
Type: Movie
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
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The Film Emotional Atyachar
Title: The Film Emotional Atyachar
Character: Sophie
Released: September 3, 2010
Type: Movie
An ensemble film set on the deserted highway between Mumbai and Goa and revolves around incidents that take place in one night to four sets of travelers. It is essentially a dark film, in which, each character is an anti-hero who has a dark mysterious interconnection between these stories that unfolds in a non-linear format. Each story varies from the other in its humor or less a similar motive - money
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Dev.D
Title: Dev.D
Character: Leni
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Because they come from different castes, the son of a tax collector and his true love are not allowed to marry, sending them down divergent paths.
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Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
Title: Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
Character: Cameo
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Badki and Chutki live a fun-filled life in Banaras, playing pranks, sneaking off to see a forbidden mujra, and soaking up all the excitement that goes on the ghats of the Ganga. Badki is aware that the family is in dire straits, but she and her mother protect Chutki at all costs. When things get worse, Badki decides to go to Mumbai and seek a living for the family.
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Tees
Title: Tees
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set across three time periods, Tees follows a middle-class Muslim family across three generations.