Hasn't been a stable moment: Kalki on 10 years in Bollywood

Kalki Koechlin describes her decade-long journey in Bollywood as "mercurial"; navigating through ups and downs and looking for calm in the unstable industry.

Having made her debut with Anurag Kashyap's "Dev D" in 2009, the actor went on to star in several acclaimed films, from "Shaitaan", "Margarita With A Straw", "Waiting" to the recent "Gully Boy".

"These ten years have been mercurial, lots of ups and downs. I don't think there has been a stable moment. It's all or nothing. There were years I had five releases and there were years I had none," Kalki told PTI.

The actor says with time the mediums for an artiste have grown and she is making the most of it.

"I'm now doing web, podcast, theatre and films. There seems to be a lot on the platter. At the end of the day, I am not so concerned about the medium. I'm concerned about the content and what kind of challenges I can bring for myself.

"There's so much stereotyping that happens that you've to really be like 'ok, can I do this in a different way?'"
"They just want to see it again so you don't know what that means. I wore a different saree for the second audition, I think that worked. It was one of those typical ashram saree, organic one and I think that did it."
"He tells all these stories so I used to listen to his stories and try to imbibe some of it. Batya is his apprentice also, so there was this need... I didn't want to copy him but be completely influenced by him."
"Here is a person who seems to have overcome her difficult past, seems pretty calm but somewhere simmering, there's her past which comes."
"Neeraj is a calculated, calm person who likes to plan everything. Sartaj is like that too, he plays by the rules. In that sense, it was useful. Batya also goes from being this chaotic rebel to this very calm person."