Anurag Kashyap and Kalki call for separation

Anurag Kashyap and his actress wife Kalki Koechlin have announced that they are separating from their more than two-year old marriage. The couple, whose marriage was said to be in trouble, issued a joint statement today asking for privacy but vehemently denying that they were divorcing. Reads the statement,"Me and Kalki are separating. We are taking time off from each other to figure things out; we aren’t divorcing. We request the media to please respect our privacy and give us our space and not speculate. Thank you, Kalki and Anurag." The 29-year old Kalki, who is an Indian of French descent and Kashyap met and fell in love while working on Dev D in 2009 and later got married in 2011. Incidentally, Kalki played Chandramukhiin Kashyap's modern take on Sarat Chandra's classic Devdas. Earlier Kashyap was married to Aarti Bajaj from whom he has a daughter.