Kalki Koechlin

Acting

Kalki Koechlin

Born January 10, 1983 · Puducherry, India (age 43)

Kalki Koechlin (born January 10, 1984) is a French-Indian actress, screenwriter, playwright, and women's rights activist actively working in Hindi cinema and theatre. Known for her versatile and unconventional roles, she is the recipient of a National Film Award, a Filmfare Award and two Screen Awards.

Known For

Sam BahadurSam Bahadur · 2023
Sam Bahadur
7.02023
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Zindagi Na Milegi DobaraZindagi Na Milegi Dobara · 2011
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
7.62011
MovieDramaComedy
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?
Azmaish: A Journey Through the SubcontinentAzmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent · 2017
Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent
2017
MovieDocumentary
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.
Her SongHer Song · 2026
Her Song
2026
MovieDramaComedy
In a secluded village in the French Pyrenees, American writer Olivia returns to her family’s ancestral home – where her grandmother fled Paris during the Nazi invasion in World War II – seeking material for a long-stalled novel. There she encounters Madeline, a talented local woman whose ingenuity and spirit echo memories of her grandmother. As Olivia incorporates details from Madeline’s life into her fictional narrative, three storylines intersect: her grandmother’s past, her novel and Olivia’s present-day experiences.
Yeh Jawaani Hai DeewaniYeh Jawaani Hai Deewani · 2013
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
7.32013
MovieRomanceComedy
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.
Kho Gaye Hum KahanKho Gaye Hum Kahan · 2023
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
6.62023
MovieDramaComedy
Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media.
Un + uneUn + une · 2015
Un + une
5.82015
MovieComedyRomance
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Happy EndingHappy Ending · 2014
Happy Ending
5.32014
MovieComedy
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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TeesTees · 2024
Tees
2024
MovieDramaScience Fiction
Spanning across 90 years, follow a middle-class Muslim family across three generations. 2042. Six months after his manuscript titled Tees (30) is rejected for publication by the Literature and Arts Commission, Anhad Draboo, a young freelance prostitute, meets Niharika, a “reader” from the Commission – who has been searching for Anhad ever since she read his manuscript. 2018. Zia Draboo, a corporate lawyer living in Mumbai and all set to buy the flat she has been renting with her partner Meera, finds out she cannot buy it because of the Housing Society’s resistance to her name. 1989-90. Ayesha, a housebound State Radio newsreader in Srinagar, Kashmir, reaches out to her childhood friend Usha to solicit help from her husband – a government official. She needs it for her own husband, Ghulam Muhammad, who faces bankruptcy and ruin amongst rising unrest in the city.

Chairwoman

CandyflipCandyflip · 2017
Candyflip
4.02017
MovieThriller
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.
BhramBhram · 2019
Bhram
5.32019
SeriesMystery
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.

Alisha Khanna