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Kalki Koechlin on attending ex-husband Anurag Kashyap’s daughter’s wedding: ‘We’ve moved on, Aaliyah is a part of my life’

Kalki Koechlin shared that she and Anurag Kashyap refused to see each other for a while after their divorce, but they have both moved on in life.

Kalki Koechlin opened up about attending Aaliyah Kashyap's wedding. (Photo: Kalki Koechlin/Instagram)

Film director Anurag Kashyap and actor Kalki Koechlin got married in 2011, shortly after they first collaborated on his film DevD. But, after a four-year marriage, the couple parted ways in 2015. Last year, when Anurag’s daughter from his first marriage with Aarti Bajaj, Aaliyah Kashyap, got married to Shane Gregoire, Kalki was one of the attendees. In a recent interview, Kalki said that while one could temporarily cut ties with their former partner, it is not possible to eliminate all the other people who you met through them, and for her, Aaliyah was one of those people. Aaliyah was 10 when her father and Kalki got married.

Talking to the YouTube channel Aleena Dissects, Kalki shared, “So much time has passed. We have both moved on in our lives.” She then said that even though she wasn’t with Anurag anymore, she couldn’t stop talking to all the people they knew mutually. “It’s just not that one person you know. It’s all the people around them as well, especially in our industry. You don’t suddenly cut links with all those people. There are 300-400 new people you know because of this partner you were with for six years. So, obviously, those ties are not suddenly going to disappear, so we will be in touch,” she said.

She then spoke about Aaliyah and shared, “And Aaliyah is a part of those people that have been in my life because of Anurag. That’s the wonderful thing you get out of breaking up that there is a whole network of other people you have met because of that person. And even if you can’t talk to that person for some time, which happened after we broke up, we did have to give ourselves some boundaries and be like ‘I don’t want to see you for some time’ but the others, I kept seeing and that’s normal, I think.”

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After Aaliyah and Shane’s wedding in December, Kalki shared a long note for the newlyweds on social media. She concluded that note by writing, “Wish you guys all the ‘ishq, pyaar and mohabbat’ in the world (like the theme of a thousand Bollywood films).” Aaliyah responded to this as she wrote, “Love you so much!!!”

Kalki also attended Aaliyah’s engagement in 2023 and shared with India Today, “Aaliyah is very cute with my daughter. They really have kind of a playful thing. So basically, my daughter thinks Aaliyah is a real princess. So she’s in awe of her. It’s good to have one more babysitter around.” Kalki is now married to Guy Hershberg and they have a five-year-old daughter named Sappho.

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