India, April 20 -- In 2009, when Kalki Koechlin played a student reeling from an MMS scandal, Chanda in Dev D, there was something captivating and refreshing to see a character who refuses to let society shame her into submission. Since then, Kalki has been the poster child for roles (That Girl in Yellow Boots, Margarita with a Straw, A Death in the Gunj) that are far from ordinary. But today, she tells Hindustan Times, she's in danger of being typecast as a 'broken' woman on-screen, longing to do more than that. (Also Read: Kalki Koechlin says she wanted to 'stab producer with fork' after he asked her to get fillers: I held myself back)

Kalki, who most recently played a lawyer in the Tamil film Nesippaya, has a surprising answer when I ...