Sacred Games 2: Kalki Koechlin reveals 'a lot of craziness & drama happening', anticipation at fever pitch

Kalki Koechlin who will be seen in second season of Netflix India Original "Sacred Games", reveals that  show came her way when she was going through some changes in her personal life and was in middle of dubbing for one of her or web series.

Having seen and liked first season, directed by Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, Kalki felt "pressured" when she got an audition call. "I did audition but didn't get a callback for three weeks. I thought it's gone, I didn't get it. n I got one call, saying one more audition. When you don't get a call back, you're like 'hmm ok' and n when you do, re's feedback as well. y just want to see it again so you don't kw what that means. I wore a different saree for second audition, I think that worked. It was one of those typical ashram saree, organic one and I think that did it."

On show, 35-year-old actor will be seen playing Batya Abelman, an apprentice of Guruji, played by Pankaj Tripathi. To understand her character, Kalki had several rounds of discussions with Kashyapwho directs portions featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui's Ganesh Gaitondeand Neeraj Ghaywan, who helms present day track of Saif Ali Khan's Sartaj Singh. 

But on set, Kalki observed her co-star Tripathi to pick up nuances. "I was following Pankaj and he didn't kw. I used to literally copy his walk behind him, his gestures. Luckily when I was shooting that portion, I didn't have much to do, I am just re in background, so I used to watch him a lot. He tells all se stories so I used to listen to his stories and try to imbibe some of it. Batya is his apprentice also, so re was this need... I didn't want to copy him but be completely influenced by him."

Kalki describes her character as someone who's complicated, very sincere in her belief system but added "one can never escape ir past". "Here is a person who seems to have overcome her difficult past, seems pretty calm but somewhere simmering, re's her past which comes."

Her character is set in both worlds, past of Nawazuddin's flamboyant gangster Gaitonde and present of Saif's honest cop Sartaj. 

Working with two different directors for tracks only added to Kalki's performance.

"y were appropriate personalities for tracks. Anurag has this spontaneous, on spot thing going on. Gaitonde portions are all very chaotic. re's a lot of craziness and drama happening. Neeraj is a calculated, calm person who likes to plan everything. Sartaj is like that too, he plays by rules. In that sense, it was useful. Batya also goes from being this chaotic rebel to this very calm person." 

For season two, Varun Grover returns as lead writer and is joined by three new writers, Dhruv Narang, Pooja Varma and Nihit Bhave. 

show starts streaming from August 15.