'That Girl in Yellow Boots', a Bollywood thriller film directed by filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and co-produced by National Film Development Corporation of India (NFDC) has been selected for the 67th Venice Film Festival.
The film will be screened under Out-of-Competition section in the fest at Venice Lido from September 1-11 this year.
Under this section, important works by directors already established in previous editions of the event are showcased.
Written by Anurag Kashyap and Kalki Koechlin, the movie will also be screened at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film will have its North American
Premiere under Special Presentations.
It is a thriller tracing Ruth's (Kalki Koechlin) search for her father-a man she hardly knew but cannot forget.
Desperation drives her to work without a permit at a massage parlour. Torn between several schisms, Mumbai becomes the alien but yet strangely familiar backdrop for Ruth's quest.
She struggles to find her independence and space even as she is sucked deeper into the labyrinthine politics of the city's underbelly. 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.
An ecstatic Anurag Kashyap thanked NFDC for pulling the project out of post production limbo and completing it.
"I would like to thank Ronnie Screwvala, Sanjay Singh and Sikhya Entertainment for lending me the money and unconditional support. I am feeling on top of the world," he said.
The movie also stars Naseeruddin Shah, Prashant Prakash, Gulshan Devaiya, Shivkumar Subramaniam, Divya Jagdale, Kumud Mishra and Kartik Krishnan among others.
Mani Ratnam's 'Raavan' is the other Hindi movie that will be screened at the festival in the Out-of-Competition slot.