Junun

Junun is a documentary about the making of an album of the same name inside Mehrangarh Fort, a fifteenth-century fortress in Rajasthan, India. Jonny Greenwood, the musician and composer, travels there to record with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur and a large group of Indian musicians, among them the ensemble known as the Rajasthan Express. Paul Thomas Anderson brought a camera along and filmed the sessions, capturing the collaboration as musicians from different traditions work together on a fusion of Indian, Israeli and Western sounds. The recordings were made with producer Nigel Godrich.

Anderson directed the film, which runs under an hour and was released in 2015. It sits between Inherent Vice, his eighth feature, and Phantom Thread, his tenth, as the ninth of the fifteen films he has directed in chronological order. The credited cast numbers twenty-five, with performers appearing as themselves, including Shye Ben Tzur on guitar, flute and vocals, Ehtisham Khan Ajmeri on dholak, and members of the qawwali chorus and horn section such as Gufran Ali, Shazib Ali, Sabir Bamami and Aamir Bhiyani. The production was handled by Ghoulardi Film Company.

The film holds a rating of 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from around 2,400 votes, and the same score on TMDB from a much smaller base of 67 votes. A critics' rating of 7.9 out of 10 from 19 reviews places it somewhat above the audience scores.