Return to Rajapur

A doomed love affair blooms against the beautiful and exotic backdrop of the deserts of India in this romantic drama. Samantha Hartley (Kelli Garner) is a woman in her early twenties who travels to Rajapur in India to visit a resort where her mother stayed years ago. While tracing the steps of her mother, Sara (Lynn Collins), Samantha learns the true story about her mother's stormy marriage to Jeremy (Justin Theroux), a charming but moody alcoholic. Only a few days after their wedding, Sara began to wonder if marrying Jeremy was a mistake, and while visiting India on their honeymoon, Sara met Jai Singh (Manoj Bajpai), a handsome and sensitive widower living in Rajapur. Jai Singh, who speaks fluent English, soon strikes up a friendship with Sara that quickly grows into a romance, but both are aware of the transgressive nature of their love, and their affair takes a tragic turn, leaving its scars on all parties involved.

Our read · Return to Rajapur (2006) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance · sports entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Cast constellation

London

2005

Kelli Garner thread

Kelli Garner

same tone

Unconditional

2012

Lynn Collins thread

Lynn Collins

same tone

Uncertainty

2009

Lynn Collins thread

Lynn Collins

same tone

On the Basis of Sex

2018

Justin Theroux thread

Justin Theroux

near DNA

Lynn Collins

actor path

Uncertaintysame toneUnconditionalsame toneSomeone Like Yousame tone

Kelli Garner

actor path

Londonsame toneHornsadjacentLars and the Real Girlnear DNA

Justin Theroux

actor path

On the Basis of Sexnear DNADuplexadjacentWanderlustadjacent

Manoj Bajpayee

actor path

Special 26near DNAAligarhnear DNAZubeidaanear DNA