By Guneet Wadera, Sep 17 - Filmicafe.com https://www.filmicafe.com/movie_review.php?movie_id=1408&value=review
A Girl - Ruth Edscer,
A Search - for a father who abandoned her,
A Path - through the dark and dingy streets of Mumbai,
A destination - beyond her imagination and ours...
It's imperative to clear the air and start this off on a tiny whiny cautionary note: That Girl in Yellow Boots is not a family film or Dev D part 2.
It however is a film about a girl longing for a picture perfect family and a father whom she has never seen. And, all she has to go by is ripped up photo in and an image in her mind of an ideal and exemplary father.
That Girl in Yellow Boots is Anurag Kashyap's most simplistic directorial outing in terms of narrative and storytelling. Sheepishly through the guise of humour, Anurag's find me if you can tale is both extremely compelling and equally convoluted. He cajoles one to play the guessing game, building the suspense to screech worthy halt.
Knocking the door of Indian Cinema and making a crackling entry with her striking portrayal of Devdas's Chandramukhi gone wild in Dev D, Kalki Koechlin breaks down that door with an unrestrained force with Ruth– pow!
Quite like her character in pink rimmed, dark tinted shades Kalki brings a brightness and innocence to her murky and miserable circumstance. Her accent and pronunciation as the 'England Girl' is spot on. She has an inimitable talent and onscreen presence by means of which she singlehandedly carries the film with her gut wrenching raw performance.
Two other noteworthy performances are by the film's Hero and villain – Prashant Prakash and Gulshan Devaiah respectively, both of whom hail from the world of theatre. Anurag's perplexities and contradictions in the characterization of the twisted Hero and sensitive Gangster are oddball, obscure and totally original!
Transformational and transitional, Indian cinema of late has been sprouting smaller films going onto become big successes (Udaan, Tere Bin Laden, Peepli Live). Bold and frail, striking and ugly in the very same breath - That Girl in Yellow Boots is a small film with a big heart and strong might. One hopes films like Yellow Boots, finds the audience it so rightfully deserves and has many a feet clamouring to theatres upon its release.
A film that is uninhibited just like it's director and one that's sure to jolt you and knock your boots off yellow or otherwise - no if, ands or buts about it!
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