That Girl in Yellow Boots is a 2011 Indian thriller film by director Anurag Kashyap, starring Kalki Koechlin and Naseeruddin Shah. The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010, followed by the Venice Film Festival after it played in several festivals worldwide including the South Asian International Film Festival. The commercial release however took place a year later in September 2011, both in India as well as in the U.S.
Plot
Ruth (Kalki Koechlin) is a British woman who lost her sister to suicide a couple of years ago. She comes to India, to search for her father, who is of Indian descent, a man she hardly knew but cannot forget, due to a letter he had written to her, asking her to seek him out. Without a work permit, desperation drives her to work at a massage parlour, where she offers both standard massages and “happy endings”. Torn between schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth’s quest. She struggles to find her independence and space as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinth of the city’s underbelly. She also dates a drug addict Prashant (Prashant Prakash), who is simultaneously her saviour and tormentor. A city that feeds on her misery, a love that eludes her. In what is possibly also seen as a commentary on the cult of godmen in India, her father is shown to be a follower of one such religious cult. The film ends with Ruth hanging up her yellow boots, and quitting her job at the massage parlour and also presumably leaving the country to go back to Britain; her quest having come to a shocking end.
Cast
Kalki Koechlin as Ruth
Naseeruddin Shah as Diwakar
Gulshan Devaiya as Chittiappa
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
Mushtaq Khan
Ronit Roy (Cameo)
Makrand Deshpande (Cameo)
Piyush Mishra (Cameo)
Rajat Kapoor (Cameo)
Divya Jagdal as Divya
Kumud Mishra as Lynn
Prashant Prakash as Prashant
Pooja Swaroop as Maya
Kartik Krishnan
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