Kalki Koechlin is one of the few actors who we admire not only for her acting skills but for the way she takes a stand for things. She says her mind and has opinions on things that matter. She is bold about her views. We often see her talking about feminism and equal rights in the society.
This time she has questioned the way media houses work in our country in her poem, ‘The Printing Machine’.The poem is a rhythmic and scathing satire against daily broadsheets, magazines, social media and textbooks. Kalki performs on this self written poem which is soul stirring because of those hitting words and sounds of a printing machine.
‘The Printing Machine’, a powerful piece with its rising crescendo reveals the hollow and robotic production and consumption of news by a generation blinded by its vulgar hunger for juicy headlines. With women’s empowerment at the core, Kalki alludes to events that shook the nation, and also to those that were equally gruesome but got replaced by beauty advertisements and our apathy.
Watch Kalki questioning the norms of the society in this video in association with Blush.