'My name is (still) Kalki Koechlin'

It’s barely been four days since their wedding on Saturday, but newly-weds Anurag and Kalki Kashyap are already back to work. No, it’s still ‘Kalki Koechlin’ she corrects, and not Kalki Kashyap. “I would never want to let go off Koechlin; that’s who I am. Besides, I’m the only child, and it’s like my family legacy, I can never give it up!” she smiles. As for adding Kashyap, she says, “We’ll see about that. I haven’t thought of it at all.”

Just like the name, Koechlin feels that life too hasn’t changed after marriage. “More than for us, it’s the people around us whose perception might change about us.” That she is married “hasn’t sunk in completely yet,” she adds. “To be honest, where was the time? It’s not fair na, that we had to get back to work so soon, but then we both just couldn’t put work on the backburner. So here we are!” says Koechlin, who’s at present busy dubbing for Shaitan, while Anurag’s busy with Gangs of Wasseypur.

Even the party for their friends in the industry might just have to wait. “We have nothing planned yet. We are still in the process of shifting into our new home, so the party might take some time,” she informs. However, she doesn’t rule out attending impromptu bashes that their close circle of friends might have arranged for them. As for the honeymoon? “That will have to wait too. I think it’ll be a monsoon affair for us,” she says. The destination too is something that couple is yet to figure out. “London was on the list, but I would prefer some place quieter… some far away island may be.”

Talking about her ‘dream-wedding’ back in her hometown near Ooty, she says that ‘it was a very peaceful wedding’ “Just the way I would’ve liked it to be. My parents had made all the arrangements and it was absolutely stress free for us,” she reveals. “I would have hated it to have become a tamasha like weddings sometimes begin to look like.” With loads to look forward to both personally as well as professionally, she says she’ll just take it one day at a time. “I’ve always lived in the moment and enjoyed it to the fullest. So it shouldn’t be any different now,” she signs off.