Kalki Kochlin's favorite challenging projects ....

- I felt like I was with my daughter during the lockdown, that time was a blessing for me. 'If I hadn't been in the lockdown I would have returned to my job after three months and faced this horrible thing that many mothers feel. Choosing between a career and your child.

Kalki Kochlin is a unique and wonderful actress, she has not only knowledge, but also knowledge of many other aspects of film, not just acting. He can do a lot if he assumes. The actress has been very busy for the last one and a half years. Still in February last year she gave birth to a daughter, named, Safo. However, due to motherhood, she took up other adventures and became involved in them. He wrote a book about parenting, with a graphic narrative, entitled The Elephant in the Bomb, which is on his very personal account. Sharing this, Kalki says, 'I did not study motherhood. It's really just my journalism and my experience.

Writing is nothing new. The actress of 'The Girl in Yellow Boots' has also written plays like 'Skeleton Woman' and 'Living Room'. This is the experience he felt when he wrote the book. ‘I enjoyed writing. For me, it is a kind of therapy. I like to write down my thoughts. This topic is very new. And when I started writing I immediately started drawing pictures associated with it. I felt it was better to do this than just write, 'he said.

I felt like I was with my daughter during the lockdown, a time that was a blessing for me. 'If I hadn't been in the lockdown I would have returned to my job after three months and faced this horrible thing that many mothers feel. Choosing between a career and your child. Dipti did not go to New Delhi with Naval to shoot a film called 'Goldfish'. The cold in the hotel room would have been very painful for him. So, I have to make all these choices. ' With this the actress admits that she has always been spontaneous when it comes to acting projects.

Changing the landscape has been a part of films like 'Margarita with a Straw and Waiting'. But do you feel disconnected while doing mainstream films like 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' or 'Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani'? In answer to that question, Kalki says, 'No. I don't seem to be disconnected. This is because you can still talk about different classes of people and their real problems. My skin color makes it difficult for me to typecast as a privileged girl. He also adds that 'many of his actor-friends go through the opposite experience because someone from a lesser or privileged class is cast who has a slightly different look. ‘As artists we are always fighting against that scene. - What they give us in terms of our physical appearance and role and casting, 'says Kalki.

The human side of the characters that Kalki plays, whatever their situation. And chooses to make them relevant in some way. Kalki had raised her voice in the past about how she felt uniform as a white girl early in her career. Does he feel that people's attitudes have changed since then? Kalki said in this regard. 'Yes and no. Today there is a lot more opportunity to do other things because of OTT platforms and alternative topics. It is also being further explored. It’s a good time for artists to apply. But I think everything we’ve seen lately tends to be a typecast. This struggle is still pending.

To get fit, Kalki has also received advice from many well-wishers to blacken her hair or sing an item. ‘However now I have paved my way more. And I choose projects that challenge my acting ability, such projects need a little away, but I am lucky that I have a book and other work to choose the right material. It takes time for me to get such projects. ' He has admitted that.

Kalki's time is spent with actors who have continued to work in film, web as well as drama. Kalki has worked in various stage productions. He has written plays, acted and also started directing with the play 'Living Room'. In this regard, Kalki says, 'When you play with five or six people, you share a part of your daily life and work for less money. This becomes a kind of personal journey.

They miss the theater and can’t wait to get back on stage again. However, Kalki has directed. He would like to try his hand at this again. He is not ready for films with the same commitment. "I am experienced enough to direct a film," says Kalki. I don't think so. I don't know what will happen?

However Kalki wants to try writing something for the web. Then there will be a series or a movie. I think writing is my strength. How close I am to the project I have written depends on whether I can direct it or not, ”said Kalki Kochlin.