Kalki Koechlin
Birthday: Born in 1983-01-09 in Pondicherry, India
Deathday: Alive
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).
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Son of Abish
Character: Herself
Son Of Abish is a variety comedy talk show with host Abish Mathew....
Smoke
Character: Tara
Set in Goa, Smoke explores the dark web of drugs, mafia, and power. With the cartels at war, who will survive?...
Sacred Games
Character: Batya Abelman
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....
Made in Heaven
Character: Faiza Naqvi
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....
Social Media Star With Janice Sequeira
Character: Herself
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....
Comedy Nights with Kapil
Character: Self
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....
Man's World
Character: Promotion Announcer
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....
Bhram
Character: Alisha Khanna
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 o...
பாவக் கதைகள்
Character: Penelope
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....
Movie Credits
Tees
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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,...
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Character: Natasha Arora
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?...
Dev.D
Character: Leni
After breaking up with his childhood love Paro, Dev finds solace in drugs and alcohol. He soon bumps into Leni, a prostitute, and falls for her....
Switchh
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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....
The Film Emotional Atyachar
Character: Sophie
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...
Trishna
Character: Self
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?...
Shanghai
Character: Shalini Sahay
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....
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Character: Aditi Mehra
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....
Ek Thi Daayan
Character: Lisa Dutt
A popular magician seeks help from a psychiatrist to protect him from a witch that has haunted him since childhood....
That Girl in Yellow Boots
Character: Ruth Edscer
An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father....
Goldfish
Character: Anamika Fields
Anamika, the child of a mixed marriage, returns home to her estranged mother Sadhana because she is suffering from the onset of dementia. Ana returns to a neighborhood she barely remembers, to a woman who sometimes doesn’t remember her....
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
Character: Simran Kohli
Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media....
Happy Ending
Character: Vishakha
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....
Margarita with a Straw
Character: Laila Kapoor
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....
My Friend Pinto
Character: Maggie
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....
Sam Bahadur
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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....
Waiting
Character: Tara Deshpande
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....
Tiny Little Voices
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Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary friend Walter. Eventually, Nina, her best friend, drags her out of the house. Here Anna meets Zack, a germophobe, who runs around in a homemade Covid Hazmat suit. The rest of the movie is a very silly comedy about how two people who don't like getting close to humans, get close to each other....
Nesippaya
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A Death in the Gunj
Character: Mitali "Mimi"
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip....
Un + une
Character: Kalki
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet....
Mantra
Character: Piya Kapoor
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 snac...
Jia aur Jia
Character: Jia
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....
Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent
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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....
Ribbon
Character: Sahana Mehra
A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges....
Shaitan
Character: Amrita "Amy" Jayshankar
Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident....
Gully Boy: Live In Concert
Character: Herself
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....
Gully Boy
Character: Shweta / Sky
A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai....
Candyflip
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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 re...
Nerkonda Paarvai
Character: Cameo
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....
Kadakh
Character: Francoise Marie
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....
New Normal
Character: Herself
Is the past the future we want ?...
Kaash
Character: Cameo
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....
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
Character: Cameo
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....
The New Normal
Character: Voice over
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 use...
Housefull 5
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