Aiyyaa!

When Anurag Kashyap's That Girl With Yellow Boots showed at TIFF2010, someone asked him in the Q&A that was held afterwards if he'd ever thought about making a mainstream Bollywood film -- Kashyap's response was something along the lines that if he tried, it would be something totally crazy.

After watching this long anticipated trailer, I think we have the answer to a related question:  if Kashyap produced a Bollywood film, what would it look like? Director Sachin Kunkalkar's  Aiyyaa:

 

 

I want to see this film so badly I could almost cry.  Lucky, lucky London folks who will get to see this at the BFI London Film Festival.  I would pretty much place money on the fact that we're not likely to see this in cinemas here.

Comments

[Stuart Martin]

"I want to see this film so badly I could almost cry" - I nearly did. It looks SO MUCH fun that I actually did come close to being damp-eyed in frustration at knowing that, like ETT, I will have to wait for the DVD of this one.

[Katherine]

And of course, it will look fabulous on the big screen. Sigh. Why is it only the rubbish films are assured of international distribution?

[Kay]

Aiyyaa is going to be released in north America. This is from Kashyap's Q&A session at TIFF. The movie that will not get released is Chittagong. In fact Kashyap has written dialogues for Taalash and is producer of Luv Shuv tey Chicken Khurrana will also get released in north America. All three will be released by the end of the this year.