
Acting
Kalki Koechlin
Born
1983-01-10 (43)
Place of birth
Puducherry, India
Known for
Acting
Credits
49 titles
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
6.8Comedy 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.
Comedy Nights with Kapil
2013
7.2The 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.
Made in Heaven
2019
7.8A 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.
Sacred Games
2018
6.8Son Of Abish is a variety comedy talk show with host Abish Mathew.
Son of Abish
2014
NROlivia, a Franco-American writer, returns to her ancestral village in the south of France to write the story of her grandmother, who fled Paris during the Nazi invasion during World War II. There, she meets Madeline, a talented local artist, who quickly replaces her grandmother as the face of the novel. As a number of strange coincidences ensue, fiction and reality intermingle uncannily, and Olivia starts to ask whether she's part of history's unfolding story, or vice-versa.
Her Song
2026
7.6Three 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?
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
2011
Film credits
2020s · 11 titles
NROlivia, a Franco-American writer, returns to her ancestral village in the south of France to write the story of her grandmother, who fled Paris during the Nazi invasion during World War II. There, she meets Madeline, a talented local artist, who quickly replaces her grandmother as the face of the novel. As a number of strange coincidences ensue, fiction and reality intermingle uncannily, and Olivia starts to ask whether she's part of history's unfolding story, or vice-versa.
Her Song
2026
7.0Based 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.
Sam Bahadur
2023
6.6Three best friends juggle life as 20-somethings in Mumbai, where romance, ambition and heartbreak collide with the addictive draw of social media.
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
2023
NRSpanning 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.
Tees
2024
8.0SWITCHH 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.
Switchh
2021
10.0Anna 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.
Tiny Little Voices
2025
NRTwo lovers, separated by life's circumstances, are reunited by a tragic fate—a murder. Arjun, driven by his love for Diya, defies all odds, crosses boundaries, and braves the unknown to uncover the truth behind her tragic fate.
Nesippaya
2025
5.8Sunil 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.
Kadakh
2020
6.3Anamika, 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.
Goldfish
2022
NRIs the past the future we want ?
New Normal
2021
NRIs 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.
The New Normal
2020
2010s · 23 titles
7.6Three 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?
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
2011
6.0When 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?
Trishna
2011
7.3On 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.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
2013
7.1Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
A Death in the Gunj
2016
5.4The 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: Live In Concert
2019
7.3Murad, an underdog, struggles to convey his views on social issues and life in Dharavi through rapping. His life changes drastically when he meets a local rapper, Shrikant alias MC Sher.
Gully Boy
2019
4.0Every 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.
Candyflip
2017
5.8A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Un + une
2015
6.8A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.
Margarita with a Straw
2015
6.9When 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.
Nerkonda Paarvai
2019
5.3Yudi’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.
Happy Ending
2014
5.8An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.
That Girl in Yellow Boots
2011
5.0A popular magician seeks help from a psychiatrist to protect him from a witch that has haunted him since childhood.
Ek Thi Daayan
2013
NRPakistani 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.
Azmaish: A Journey Through the Subcontinent
2017
6.8Prime 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.
Shanghai
2012
6.3Five substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.
Shaitan
2011
5.7Sweet, 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.
My Friend Pinto
2011
7.0While visiting his comatose wife in the hospital, a serene old professor befriends a vibrant young woman whose husband has also fallen into a coma.
Waiting
2016
6.5An 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
The Film Emotional Atyachar
2010
6.8A young working urban couple is overwhelmed with the birth of a baby girl but parenthood has its own challenges.
Ribbon
2017
NRFrustrated 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.
Kaash
2015
4.0A story about two starkly different women that share the same name. Together, they embark on a life-changing journey heading towards the same fate.
Jia aur Jia
2017
6.8An Indian business owner struggles to keep his company afloat amid global competition while trying to make up for lost time with his family.
Mantra
2017
2000s · 2 titles
7.0Dev, after spurning his childhood love Paro due to a misunderstanding, turns to drugs and alcohol for solace. Paro moves on but Dev remains in remorse. He then meets Chanda, an escort navigating her own past trauma, but Dev’s chauvinistic attitude and penchant for self-destruction stands in the way of their developing bond.
Dev.D
2009
5.4Badki 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.
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
2007
Series credits
6.8Comedy 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.
Comedy Nights with Kapil
2013
7.2The 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.
Made in Heaven
2019
7.8A 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.
Sacred Games
2018
6.8Son Of Abish is a variety comedy talk show with host Abish Mathew.
Son of Abish
2014
7.6Gaurav Tiwari, a paranormal investigator, faces his greatest challenge when his pursuit of the truth behind unexplained phenomena leads him into a deadly spiral. As his mysterious death leaves questions unanswered, a journalist delves into his eerie and celebrated legacy, unearthing secrets that blur the line between reality and the supernatural.
Bhay: The Gaurav Tiwari Story
2025
7.6At 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.
Paava Kadhaigal
2020
7.8Set in Goa, Smoke explores the dark web of drugs, mafia, and power. With the cartels at war, who will survive?
Smoke
2018
5.3A 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.
Bhram
2019
5.5Man’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.
Man's World
2015
NRA city woman challenges a village’s deadly superstitions, uncovering deep crimes behind local myths.
Veerabhadruni Rahasyam
2026
6.0Social 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.
Social Media Star With Janice Sequeira
2019
A motherless child and a childless mother are forced to face their grief when a sinister presence called Boba threatens to silence them forever.
Anarth
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Details of the show are kept under the wraps.
Kaher
2026
