Jai Arjun Singh
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The wholesome, unadulterated joy of watching cinema in fragments — where parts are often greater than their sum-Entertainment News ,
I am now unembarrassed about my propensity to watch and re-watch specific scenes, especially the ones with great background score. Being able to take pleasure in the small moment is, I find, as important and valid as anything else. → Read More
50 years of Hindi alternative cinema
In 1969, three films signalled the start of Hindi-language Parallel Cinema.To mark the half-century, Lounge selects 50 films from the arthouse, experimental, indie, Parallel and Middle Cinema movements → Read More
Opinion | This skinny blue dog is me
A fine new Tamil film about caste oppression offers angry protest music and flashy visuals, but also serenity and grace → Read More
Opinion | The other side of the camera
The ‘new’ Orson Welles film, starring John Huston, adds to a fascinating list of directors in major acting roles → Read More
Honey, I shrunk the hero
Two cult classics of 20th century literature offer an uncomfortable view of shrinking or diminutive men → Read More
Opinion | A soft-spoken patriarch
What Will People Say: There is a quiet sincerity in the film’s performances and in the little observations about how human behaviour changes in different contexts → Read More
When ‘Tumbbad’ met ‘The Terror’
A lush new film and a haunting TV show mirror concerns about greed, hubris and ambition → Read More
Mr India and his forebears
Those of us who knew H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man felt an added frisson of excitement that a popular Hindi movie—close to home, with stars and songs—could draw on a classic sci-fi book, even while working with the vigilante-hero format → Read More
Opinion | Through a glass, darkly
When you watch a film as a child, and later as an adult, you are seeing two entirely different films—you’re another person now → Read More
Opinion | The girl and the ‘gau rakshak’
This Jaya Bhaduri-starrer has a few similarities with ‘Abhimaan’—as well as one big, mooing difference → Read More
Opinion | In praise of visible film craft
How directors from Hrishikesh Mukherjee to Shyam Benegal have sidestepped the idea that elements of filmmaking mustn’t draw attention to themselves → Read More
Singing in the rain
The rain song in Hindi cinema encompasses many moods, from the tragic to the upbeat, from closure to regeneration → Read More
Slipping past the censors
From ‘Amrapali’ to ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, Bollywood has always found ways to circumvent censor restrictions → Read More
Tinker tailor joker spy
Panjak Parashar’s madcap ‘Peechha Karro’ proves that spy movies don’t all need to be serious → Read More
‘Ashwatthama’: Where myth and life collide
Pushpendra Singh’s ‘Ashwatthama’ is an anti-narrative film about a little boy obsessed with a narrative → Read More
‘Amrapali’: the courtesan and the king
The sensual 1966 film ‘Amrapali’ is about a courtesan who both embraces and rejects worldly pleasures → Read More
Summer special: Heat and dust and cinema
Memorable scenes from films old and new that show the Indian summer in all its uncompromising glory → Read More
Swatting away jingoism
‘Hun Hunshi Hunshilal’ is a one-of-a-kind film that uses folk music and goofy humour to satirize hyper-nationalism → Read More
Rajinikanth as Karn: ‘Thalapathi’ revisited
Mani Ratnam’s film is one of our most poignant male-friendship films and a fresh perspective on two mythological anti-heroes → Read More
1968 films that still make us laugh
We pick three Indian comedies and assess what makes them tick → Read More