That Girl in Yellow Boots

That Girl in Yellow Boots is a thriller tracing Ruth (Kalki Koechlin), a British woman who comes to Mumbai to search for her father a man she hardly knew but cannot forget. Without a work permit, desperation drives her to work at a massage parlour. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien but yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruths quest. She struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the citys underbelly. She starts dating a drug addict Prashant (Prashant Prakash).

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. After numerous encounters with people, almost all of whom are depicted as needing to be serviced by her, she discovers that her father is one amongst her regular clients, who knew all along that she was his daughter. In what is possibly seen as a commentary on the cult of godmen in India, her father is shown as one such member of a religious cult, and views having sex with his daughter as an expression of his love. The film ends with Ruth hanging up her yellow boots, her quest having come to a shocking end.

The film opened to mostly positive reviews. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-times gave it 3.5 out of the 4 stars, and he also noted that The films value is in its portrait of Ruth, and her independence as a solo outsider in a vast, uncaring city. In his Huffington Post review, Kia Makarechi wrote, an unnervingly realistic portrait of unimaginable pain is one with an ending youll wish you could forget. Nupur Barua of fullhyd.

com rated it 7 out of 10, and said that besides the Kashyap-esque tone of despair and melancholy, That Girl in Yellow Boots is Anurag Kashyaps best till date, adding that you can watch it only if you can handle the unspeakable. Parmita Borah, on EF News International, wrote, Kalki Koechlin carries That Girl in Yellow Boots on her shoulders and does so with great panache and élan. Shivesh Kumar of IndiaWeekly awarded the movie 3.5 out of 5 stars.