Kalki was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India as hippies 38 years ago and settled there after they fell in love with the country. Her parents are devotees of Sri Aurobindo.

Kalki was studying in Ooty when her parents insisted her to attend university. Kalki studied drama and theatre in Goldsmiths, University of London, where she also worked with a theatre company called Theatre of Relativity for two years. She performed in various plays like David Hare’s The Blue Room, Marivaux’s The Dispute and a devised play The Rise of the Wild Hunt in her two year stint with the theatre group

Kalki later decided to move to Mumbai to try her luck in Indian Cinema. She was doing modeling assignments for Television commercials before being shortlisted for the role of Chandramukhi (Chanda) in Dev.D. Kalki can speak Tamil, English and French while she had to learn Hindi to prepare for her role in Dev.D. Kalki was apprehensive about how people will judge her after seeing her in the role.

Kalki Koechlin Kashyup is an Indian film actress of French descent who debuted in Anurag Kashyap’s critically acclaimed Hindi film Dev.D. She also works as a screenwriter. [She played the character of Chandramukhi in Dev.D, which is a modern take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bengali novella Devdas and eventually won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for it (2009).

Kalki next featured in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara which was commercially and critically successful, she was nominated in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress category (2011).

Actress Kalki Koechlin and director husband Anurag Kashyap today unveiled an exquisite collection of Platinum Love Bands at the ORRA Store in the capital city. The platinum collection ‘DUETS” are a testament of true love and rightly symbolizes a memorable occasion for the celebrity couple as they celebrate their very special Platinum Day of Love.