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Ruth (Kalki Koechlin) is the girl in question and having no work permit, she is harassed by the cops, immigration officials et al and has to survive bribing them. With no means, she finds herself a job in a massage parlour but all these hardships do not blunt her quest to find her father.
It is a long and arduous route she has to traverse, punctuated by snatches of suspense and even brutality. It is the journey that is more important than the destination, even though that too is alarming and director Anurag Kashyap, whose Black Friday was a roaring success, gives evidence of his penchant for stark realism as he keeps the viewer very nearly in a trance aided by an imaginative screenplay by him and Kalki Koechlin (his wife in real life) and searching camerawork by Rajeev Ravi. Director Kashyap’s major strength is in portraying the plight of a young white girl in India, considered to possess loose morals. The barbs and snide, even, rude, remarks she is subjected to. It is a bitter world she comes to live in and there seems to be not light at the end of the tunnel. Naseeruddin Shah plays Diwarkar, one of her clients, but is really a red herring though he does a good job but the heroine Kalki Koechlin is impeccable and does emotional sequences fetchingly. No praise is high enough for her. There are also a few good cameos that embellish the story. There’s the chatty telephone operator played by Divya Jagdal and an underworld don Chittapa (Gulshan Deviya) and her friend Prashant (Prashant Prakash), who hams his way around. The Mumbai ambience is good there could have been greater flavour with more outdoor scenes. Also, it is a tad stretched out to 110 minutes and could well have been reduced to just 90. It would have been more taut. I am a firm believer of the Bunuelian theory that all one can say can be said in 90 to 100 minutes. But That Girl in Yellow Boots is an unusual film and a must for connoisseurs of cinema.
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