C-16, Bhagwan Das Rd, Panch Batti, C Scheme, Ashok Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302001, India
We spent the evening at Raj Mandir Cinema, and the foyer already felt like a palace built for a ticket. Dusty-rose walls rose in scalloped arches, each oval niche holding a glowing glass basket of red and amber stalks. A grey vault broke into circular recesses ringed with gold filigree, from which tiered cylinders of glass rods hung cool and bright; elsewhere the ceiling went pale blue and pricked with small lights,…