That Girl In Yellow Boots (Hindi)

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6.5/10
Release Date:
September 02, 2011

That Girl in Yellow Boots is a thriller tracing Ruth's (Kalki Koechlin) search for her father - a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Desperation drives her to work without a permit, at a massage parlour. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien but yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth's quest. She struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly. A city that feeds on her misery, a love that eludes her and above all, a devastating truth that she must encounter. And everyone wants a piece of her

That Girl in Yellow Boots is a thriller tracing Ruth's (Kalki Koechlin) search for her father - a man she hardly knew but... Show More

ReelReptile

Editor   Sep 02, 2011 07:13  

I'm not complaining, nevertheless, for this little film is still a good little advertisement of the immense talent lying around in the dark bylanes of our industry's brutal complex.

Wogma

Editor   Sep 02, 2011 10:11  

That Girl In Yellow Boots is a simple story with soul about a girl who has lost hers and is desperately looking for it. Even if what she is looking for is an image of a father she's never had and always wanted. Whether or not she finds the father is as important as what she goes through to find him. The gritty nature of the film and the subject is not something all of us can handle for it takes guts to accept the truth about the society that we are a part of. It's an important film but not one I'd want to watch again.

The keen must watch on screen. Else do not miss when on TV/DVD if you can stomach dark, blunt films.

rony

Editor   Sep 02, 2011 11:05  

Final few words: That girl in yellow boots is Anurag Kashyap doing a Steven Soderberg that is making a small intimate digital independent film before going out & making his big budget Bombay Velvet.

Rating: ***

Ticket Meter: Worth any amount of money if you starve for some interesting cinema.

Prakash Gowda

Editor   Sep 05, 2011 12:45  0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Popcornversations: TGIYB: Mein Majid Majidi Banna Chahta Hoon

Anurag Kashyap: Here’s a wedding gift for you…
Kalki Koechlin: Wow! Another role in your friend’s film? I loved doing ZNMD!
AK: Nope, it’s my film this time, and you are playing the lead.
KK: What role is it like?
AK: It’s a story of a British girl in search of her father.
KK: Oh! So you’re playing my father’s role?
AK: I don’t look that older! Anyways, the entire film revolves around that girl.
KK: So what’s the plot?
AK: I told you, it’s the story of a British girl in search of her father, wearing yellow boots.
KK: Yuck! Why on earth does she wear yellow boots?
AK: Even I don’t have a clue, but it sounds international…you know…world cinema-like. We can call it some metaphor of sorts…will sound much intellectual.
KK: Whatever. Where’s the script?
AK: We’ll write together
KK: But we need a concrete story to build the plot, what about characterizations…?
AK: Don’t worry, once we gulp down a few pegs, everything will fall into place.

[After a week of ‘gulping down a few pegs’]

Kalki Koechlin: Why the hell do you want to add this child abuse angle to the story?
Anurag Kashyap: It’s a hangover of my role in Onir’s ‘Iam’…can’t help…
KK: Get over it! And why do I have to give massage and ‘hand-jobs’ to so many men?
AK: You play a masseuse. It’s time to milk the opportunity of the ‘crass trend’ in films.
KK: And why so many swear words? A character addresses me by a gaali of female anatomy! Isn’t it something really disgusting?
AK: We must thank Aamir Khan for that. It’s all ‘allowed’ these days post Delhi Belly.
KK: But the script doesn’t go anywhere except for the twist in the end…
AK: It keeps the viewer hooked with titillations of hand-jobs and a nuanced performance by Naseeruddin Shah, Puja Sarup, Shiv Subramanium our own Gulshan Devaiah of Shaitan, play the cat and mouse game between the father and daughter, and by the time we reach the end, remember we’ve got that ‘twist’.
KK: And what will my co-star do?
AK: We’ll handcuff him all through the film and make him pee from the window. I think Prashant Prakash will be perfect for the role. Nobody would bother about him anyway.
KK: Well, I don’t care what you do to him, as long as I get to play the lead role.
AK: It’s your film all the way. We’ll make the film do rounds in international film festivals which nobody has heard of. The budget will be kept low, with Naren Chandavarkar, Suhaas Ahuja and Benedict Taylor scoring the background music, Rajeev Ravi as cinematographer. Nobody would buy this film, so I would produce and direct it.
KK: What will be the name of the film?
AK: That girl in yellow boots.
KK: Isn’t it a bit odd…I mean for the Indian audience?
AK: Sounds international…world-cinema-like, isn’t it?

Amodini (http://film.fridaynirvana.com)

Editor   Sep 05, 2011 20:52  

The film didn’t work for me though because I fail to see what it tried to achieve. It wasn’t feel-good. It was sad and depressing, and had elements of perversity and sordidness. A sad story without an end goal. I wasn’t emotionally attached or affected, and there weren’t any take-aways.