Arjun Sajip

2 weeks ago | apollo-magazine.com | Arjun Sajip

Scenes from a Repatriation, a new play by the Singaporean playwright Joel Tan, gets a good deal of mileage out of what might seem like a niche subject: the restitution of contested objects.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Bedatri D. Choudhury |David West |Mark Asch |Arjun Sajip

Sandhya Suri’s ambitious debut tells the story of a young Hindu widow who takes on her late husband’s constable job and is thrown into the violent world of Indian law enforcement. 19 March 2025Midway through Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, the eponymous protagonist, a police officer (Shahana Goswami), sits in a restaurant in a central-northern Indian town, eating a plate of red bean curry with fried bread. As the only woman, she feels the sting of male eyes on her.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | David WestReviews |David West |Mark Asch |Arjun Sajip

A mega-hit in China, the sequel to 2019’s NE ZHA demolished box office records to become the highest grossing animated feature film ever made. However, it presents a potentially challenging prospect for audiences not versed in Chinese mythology or anyone who hasn’t seen the opening instalment.  Director Jiao Zi, aka Yu Yang, picks up where the first movie left off as pint-sized demon-child hero Ne Zha and his pal, dragon prince Ao Bing, are resurrected by Ne Zha’s master, the portly Taoist Taiyi.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Mark AschReviews |Mark Asch |Arjun Sajip |Anton Bitel

“One of the greatest compliments I ever got (well, it seemed like a compliment to me, anyway) was when Mr. Spielberg told me I’d missed my era as a screenwriter – that I would have had a ball in the 40s,” David Koepp once told the film scholar David Bordwell. He’s found the next best thing writing scripts directed by modern workflow gurus like David Fincher, and now the one-man studio Steven Soderbergh.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Arjun Sajip |Anton Bitel |Annabel Jackson |Rachel Pronger

What does it say about India that so many recent films from the subcontinent feature key scenes set on trains? Kiran Rao’s charming comedy Laapataa Ladies (2023) begins with a case of mistaken identity in the carriage of a sleeper train; almost all of Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s visceral thriller Kill (2023) is set on board a high-speed locomotive; and the Mumbai metro is a recurring location in last year’s Grand Prix winner at Cannes, All We Imagine as Light.