However, the yellow boots have got nothing to do with the story. In fact, it’s an artist’s idea to highlight the darkness in the film. The film is very gloomy as it deals of iniquitous truth.
Ruth – played by Kalki Koechlin – is an Anglo-Indian who moves to India with a sole purpose of finding her father but ends up taking a job as a massage therapist in a parlour called Aspaspa to earn quick cash.
During her search, she encounters numerous type of men: Makarand Deshpande as post master, gang-man Chittiappa (Gulshan Devaiya), humble policeman played by Ronit Roy are just some to mention.
Her drug addict boyfriend Prashant (Prashant Prakash) isn’t much help either. Naseeruddin Shah, on the other hand, didn’t have much to do apart from bringing glow in the film. But thanks to Maya (Puja Swaroop) the manger of Aspaspa, who manages to tickle the audience with her phone-talk as the story gets even darker.
Nevertheless, it’s Kalki who has co-written the story excels in the film. From greedy broker to gangster, she fights everyone single-handedly as we see India and its ruthless legitimacy through Ruth’s little expressive eyes.
Edited by Shweta Venkat, Rajeev Rai's camerawork in the film is laudable. The musical duo Naren Chandavarkar and Naren Chandavarkarstrike a perfect note with the background score an outstanding folk genre sung by Megha Shriram depicting the lead Ruth.
Not to forget, it’s director Anurag Kashyap who brings out the best in each character. He does it again proving such movies can be made with a low-budget. Do not miss this film!