They?re best known now as actors in the Hindi film industry, but Omi Vaidya and Kalki Koechlin confess to knowing very little about Bollywood when growing up. As a resident of California, Vaidya had ?a western perspective? on Hindi films, while Koechlin?s parents, raising her in Pondicherry at the Aurobindo ashram, introduced her to Satyajit Ray and Mira Nair?s Salaam Bombay, but not to Hindi or Tamil cinema.