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Ok so I know she has decent language skills and acting skills so much so that she has been from time to time cast as an Indian in several films without having to explain her looks. She is also a decent looker. But she really doesnt fit in Hindi cinema heroine mould like say Kareena or PC and nor does she fit the exotic White fantasy mould like Katrina. We also never hear any rumours of casting couch surrounding her...she dated Anurag Kashyap and went on to marry him. She is a decent actress but there are better ones. She is very low profile in the media too. So what makes her click with casting directors of Bollywood?
Lol. Maybe the fact that she's an excellent talent? Her acting is of a much higher quality to Kareena's Priyanka's, and most definitley Katrina's. Acting isn't all about looks (although admittedly in Bollywood looks do seem to play a big part). When you have a talent like Kalki you'd be an idiot not to put it to use.
She's also a bit of a creative innovatar, so a lot of the respect she gets stems from that as well.
Personally I think the question should be why does Katrina get work? Unlike Kalki she is not fluent in any native Indian language; unlike Kalki she is not an Idian national and did not grow up in India and therefore is vastly removd from it's culture which is a big part of the mainstream Bollywood she is curently ruling over. Unlike Kalki her acting is nothing to sing home about, it's certainly not good enough to justify directors going out of their way to find and pay someone to dub her lines (in her early days), nor is it good enough to distract audiences from her broken, heavily accented hindi.
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