Twiddling thumbs?

Actress Kalki Koechlin rose to fame with her debut film Dev D, but things didn't get easier for her immediately. The actress says she is a self-employed person, so instead of sitting and twiddling thumbs while waiting for a call, she creates work for herself.

"There have been times when I didn't have work. Everyone thought that after Dev D my life became easy. But actually I was unemployed for a-year-and-a-half. What I did was that I created work for myself. I wrote a play and then we put it up. We performed it for a year. I have always believed in myself and that I will push myself enough to create work for myself," Kalki said.

"I am self-employed so I cannot be sitting and hoping for a phone call. If work is not coming for me, I create work. I hope that I am efficient enough in that sense to survive in the industry. I just hope to carry on doing what I do. I've not thought about making sure that I have a career for ten years. For me, next challenge is what I have now," she added.

The actress, who recently got married to filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, has acted in films such as Shaitan, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and That Girl In Yellow Boots.