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Actress Kalki Koechlin, who is renowned for her unconventional, character-driven performances onscreen, is also a very iconic person in her ...

You Probably Didn't Know These Facts About Kalki Koechlin-8th one is worth the read

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Actress Kalki Koechlin, who is renowned for her unconventional, character-driven performances onscreen, is also a very iconic person in her own skin.

Kalki’s father Joel Koechlin came to India from France, 60 years ago and met Kalki Koechlin’s mother, Francoise Armandie, at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Auroville, Puducherry. They then fell in love and set up their home in Kallaty. Kalki’s father runs a experimental lightsport aircraft-making factory.

Kalki Koechlin is a sports enthusiasts and loves mountain trekking. The actress took up to trekking ever since she visited Manali as a child.

2. Kalki Koechlin was unemployed for a year and a half after Dev.D

3.Kalki Koechlin has written, produced and acted in many stage plays in India, most recently in Color Blind which she co-wrote. She won the prestigious MetroPlus Playwright award in 2009 for the play “Skeleton Woman” which she co-wrote with Prashant Prakash. Other plays include Trivial Disasters, “The Real Inspector Hound”, “Hair” (where she incarnates Rapunzel) “Hamlet, the Clown Prince” (Directed by Rajat Kapoor) among some of her works.

4. Kalki Koechlin was paired with actor Imran Khan for a Coca Cola advertisement. The advert was voted the best of the IPL by the TOI Advertisement awards.

5. Kalki won the prestigious MetroPlus Playwright award in 2009 for the play “Skeleton Woman” which she co-wrote with Prashant Prakash. She has written, produced and acted in many stage plays in India.
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6. Kalki co-wrote the critically acclaimed and moving film, That Girl In Yellow Boots, with Anurag Kashyap. Bollywood could do with more of Kalki’s writing talent in our opinion.

7. Kalki can speak in Hindi, English, Tamil and French very fluently

8.Kalki’s great-grandfather, Maurice Koechlin, was a French structural engineer,who played an important role in the design and construction of the Eiffel Tower. ( READ ALSO : UNKNOWN FACTS OF AISHWARYA RAI THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL PROUD )