Anurag Kashyap announces his new film – “The Girl In Yellow Boots”

Anurag Kashyap announces his new film – “The Girl In Yellow Boots”

Yes that’s the title of the movie i am making now. Forget media speculations about “Happy Ending” and “Bombay Velvet”. BV ’s script is not yet locked, its far from complete and who knows how many drafts to go. I was in the Jury of Venice and met a lot of filmmakers, saw a lot of films that shamed me, inspired me, challenged me and i realized that i haven’t shot anything in more than a year. I have been planning and dreaming and more planning and more planning. I needed to make a film.
I narrated an idea to Kalki, whose playwriting skills were fantastic enough to win her and her co-writer an award. I personally had read a lot more of what she wrote, so i narrated an idea to her, asked her to write. She wrote random scenes, i kept pushing her , she kept writing. We got together her theatre friends, some great new age actors, as yet unexposed to cinema, we improvised scenes, then on 24th and 25th of september i sat down and wrote a draft out of all her writings and improvisation. 26th we had a narration that didn’t go down too well. I rewrote it. Everyone liked it. 27th i gathered the team together , i announced i want to start shooting in 20 days. Kshipra, Neel , my a.d’s freaked out. They yelled, screamed at me, tried to make me see sense, i did’t see it. I just knew i had to do it now or i would get into a rut of big time. They are the darlings, them , vasan, shlok, prerna, kashyap das, all my friends, they all said , lets do it. We borrowed monies, Guneet Monga(Dasvidaniya) came on board with Shibani and then brought in Yogesh Tewathiya(production team) , Rajeev Ravi(my all and everything) flew down on 28th, wasiq khan came on board on 29th, shubhra my costumes person came on board on 29th, My friends Amar Butala and Jordi lend us monies to start work, Sanjay Singh gave us some more monies.