Popcorn Essayists

A sparkling collection studded with wit, passion and insight, the essays are personal reflections on genres of cinema: Hollywood blockbusters, Hindi noir, horror and any other kind you may have sat through wide-eyed in a million small-town halls or metro multiplexes and the effect they had on individual lives. Ranging from the sparse, undemonstrative work of Finland s Kaurismäki brothers to a boisterous Punjabi masala movie that may or may not be about a foot fetish; from a writer s first and hilarious experience of watching a film in a theatre, to one who performs a Helen dance in drag at a Brooklyn square... each of these essays reveals to readers a completely different side of their authors. Edited by journalist, film and book critic Jai Arjun Singh, these recollections are what every movie-goer and book-lover-should read. Includes essays by: Rajorshi Chakraborti, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Namita Gokhale, Anjum Hasan, Amitava Kumar, Madhulika Liddle, Jaishree Misra, Manjula Padmanabhan, Kamila Shamsie, Jai Arjun Singh, Manil Suri, Sumana Roy and Sidin Vadukut