The "Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani" actress expressed her views on her visit to Pakistan and working on the documentary Azmaish by film-maker Sabiha Sumar.

Kalki Koechlin stated at the India Today Conclave 2017 on Friday that the documentary features Pakistan outside the context of conflict and instead focuses on the struggles of commoners in both the countries. Further she stated, “From my point of view, I accepted the project out of curiosity. I had never been to Pakistan and I only knew India and Pakistan in terms of conflicts. I wanted to see another aspect, perhaps, a more human aspect.”

According to Kalki the two things that integrated India and Pakistan are cricket and Bollywood. She mentioned, "Bollywood is huge in Pakistan. People recognized me because of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. Even with India, a lot of us are unified because of movies. People of northeast India speak Hindi because of Bollywood.”

Upon asking her grip to this documentary, she said, "I think it was my neutrality on the subject; I didn’t have a particularly strong standpoint on the whole India-Pakistan issue.” She was asked if Pakistan was any amusing to her to which she said, “A lot of things surprised me. One thing that I loved was their curiosity because there’s very little outside influence in Pakistan vis-a-vis India. The openness with which they met me was very surprising."

Here's to hoping more Bollywood celebrities would speak up and encourage ties to return to normal between the two nuclear-armed countries.