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The poster of 'That Girl in Yellow Boots', Director: Anurag Kashyap, Cast: Kalki
Kochelin, Prashant Prakash, Naseeruddin Shah |
Recently, with the advent of digital filmmaking, little droplets of creative cinema have been foreshadowing another cloud-burst of creativity. However, it needs patronage. Perhaps NFDC (National Film Development Corporation), transformed from FFC, would provide that shot in the arm to extremely talented, but unfinanced filmmakers in India. And ‘The Girl In Yellow Boots’ (TGIYB), co-funded by NFDC, could be that game changer. A British national of Indian origin, Ruth (Kalki), is in India looking for her dad who had left her when she was young. To fund her trip, she works in a shady massage parlour charging Rs.1000 to give 'happy endings' to her customers. She is caught up in her druggie boyfriend's mess but a greater mess awaits her in the discovery of her father. TGIYB is good news for Indian cinema for many reasons. Firstly, it is perhaps India's first commercially released film to be not just entirely shot in digital (LSD was the first) but also shot on cameras that are usually used to shoot stills. Seeing what digital can do on big screen, like LSD, is an experience and lesson in filmmaking.Read Full: That Girl in Yellow Boots |That Girl in Yellow Boots|Kalki Koechlin | The New Indian Express
