Indian director Santosh Sivan departed from his profitable 1998 The Terrorist, a political thriller hailed as some of the lovely movies ever to return from the subcontinent, to make this magical portrait of the interior lifetime of Malli, a poor eight-year previous woman. Malli works to assist her dad and mom accumulate firewood and performs along with her finest pal, the deaf and mute daughter of a center class household. She longs for 2 issues on this world: a brand new vibrant yellow costume and a magical blue bead that purportedly will restore her pal's listening to. Depicted with a surreal, sometimes nightmarish texture, the movie lyrically reveals each the straightforward friendships and bitter disappointments of childhood and the ability of the creativeness.