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That Girl In Yellow Boots Is Hard Hitting

Fashion Jun 06, 2013

by Anokhi Admin

Anurag Kashyap's That Girl in Yellow Boots deals with an uncomfortable and shocking subject. But like most of his films, Kashyap is well in control and knows exactly how to create a touching impact. The story follows Ruth (played by his real-life partner, Kalki Koechlin), a British girl who is in Mumbai to find her father. Fresh from an emotional screening at the Venice film festival, Kashyap was looking forward to screening of his film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

Kalki Koechlin

To his credit, Kashyap keeps the lens closely on the main character, Ruth and brings out all facets of her personality, her hope and misery, her depression and wit and how she's stuck in a situation where men are just waiting to take advantage. Despite her kindness and her apparent naivety as a foreigner in Mumbai she quickly understands how things get done and becomes street smart. Extending her stay in India to find her father, Ruth works at a massage parlour, interacting with her clients and makes some extra money by giving them what they call "happy endings". Koechlin delivers a hard hitting performance as the person who liberates men and their physical tensions. Kashyap keeps the audience guessing about the identity of her father. The film also features acclaimed actor, Naseeruddin Shah as a client and Prashant Prakash who plays her good-for-nothing boyfriend also named Prashant.

On the choice of yellow boots and any related symbolism Kashyap notes that the color is not significant but it's "that girl" in the yellow boots who is noticed just as her character assassination begins, "The shoes are very symbolic about the girl who is on a journey to look for something." Kashyap who chooses dark subjects as a natural response to story that affects him says he likes to shake people up with his stories.

That Girl in Yellow Boots highlights the disturbing subject of incest which is an extremely hard subject to address. "I have been a victim myself," reveals Kashyap, "and I have talked about it quite openly for a long time. It's always been there at the back of my mind and then suddenly I read a story in the newspaper that triggered it off all over again so that story became the basis of the film. It was a German girl who came to India looking for her father and the other story that dominated the front pages of Bombay was the story of a father and his two daughters."

Nasserudin Shah and Kalki Koelchin

Kashyap is of the view that cinema is fast replacing literature but it needs to take on the responsibilities of literature. "People are making more documentaries about our current political situation and economic scenario, you see films like Inside Job, you see films on Iraq," he says. "People have a social/ political conscience. It's only in India that they're still saying that cinema is only to make you laugh and celebrate. Cinema has to take responsibilities which are far larger. The idea is to interact with the audience, go into unchartered territory, to provoke, to incite people, let them to think and shock them into growing up a little bit. The audience needs to grow up."

Collaborating on both a personal and creative level on the script with his Koechlin, Kashyap says it was both easy and difficult working with her as she has a mind of her own and admits that they actually didn't talk during the shooting.

Kashyap's next is an expensive Mumbai thriller set in the 60s and Danny Boyle is helping him to get it made because he likes the subject. "Danny even got me writer from England to help me do the new draft. It's an expensive film titled Bombay Velvet," he says. "We want Aamir Khan. Aamir has heard the subject, he likes the subject but he still wants the final draft, nothing is locked in."

BY PREETI THANDI
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That Girl In Yellow Boots Is Hard Hitting

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