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(No Ratings Yet)For many Indian men, a visit to the barber shop involves more than just a haircut...
For many Indian men, a visit to the barber shop involves more than just a haircut.
Filmed over the course of a weekend in a lower middle-class suburb of New Delhi and with music by A.R. Rahman, "Saloon" offers an affectionate glimpse inside the Indian barber shop: an institution dedicated to male-pampering.
With little room for modesty, this apparently private world plays host to a very public displays of grooming and preening. Working to the sound of Bollywood theme-tunes emanating from a radio or the TV, the barbers transport their customers to a world beyond their mundane, day-to-day concerns. As they recline in leatherette chairs, pampered clients appear oblivious to the barber's sober efficiency as he cuts and trims, lathers and shaves, kneads and strokes.
Some arrive at these rose-scented salons intent on just a haircut but few leave without at least yielding to the pleasures of a coconut-oil head-massage. For many customers, a shave is incomplete unless accompanied by a facial, and a treatment flawed if unruly eyebrows are left untamed by painful threading.
Filmed over the course of a weekend in a lower middle-class suburb of New Delhi and with music by A.R. Rahman, "Saloon" offers an affectionate glimpse inside the Indian barber shop: an institution dedicated to male-pampering.
With little room for modesty, this apparently private world plays host to a very public displays of grooming and preening. Working to the sound of Bollywood theme-tunes emanating from a radio or the TV, the barbers transport their customers to a world beyond their mundane, day-to-day concerns. As they recline in leatherette chairs, pampered clients appear oblivious to the barber's sober efficiency as he cuts and trims, lathers and shaves, kneads and strokes.
Some arrive at these rose-scented salons intent on just a haircut but few leave without at least yielding to the pleasures of a coconut-oil head-massage. For many customers, a shave is incomplete unless accompanied by a facial, and a treatment flawed if unruly eyebrows are left untamed by painful threading.
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