Overview
- Kalki Koechlin told interviewer Lilly Singh that during a lunch meeting a producer shifted from criticising his ex’s Botox to suggesting Kalki get filler for her laugh lines.
- She said the comment left her ‘seething’ and that she replied with humour instead of confronting him because you must sometimes pick your battles.
- Kalki has incorporated the anecdote into her stage show I’m Okay, which she says resonates with many women who have faced similar offhand comments.
- In the same interview she raised the gender pay gap in the Indian film industry and described how women now share salary details and warnings about unsafe collaborators.
- The producer remains unnamed, no formal complaint or investigation has been reported, and media coverage on Friday focused on the anecdote as an example of everyday sexism rather than on onward action.