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Business News > Mint Authors > Jai Arjun Singh

Jai Arjun Singh

ARTICLES BY JAI ARJUN SINGH

Fahadh Faasil in 'Maheshinte Prathikaaram'

A new book explores the varied charms of Malayalam cinema

5 min read . 03 May 2026

Amitabh Bachchan and (top) Dharmendra in 'Sholay'

‘Sholay’ at 50: Making sense of Ramesh Sippy's classic

8 min read . 08 Aug 2025

Four manifestations of the video culture changed the viewing experience for us in the early 1980s. Photo: Getty Images

Coming of age in the time of video

5 min read . 27 Sept 2024

Can humans ever fully deal with the idea of sentience in animals? Illustration by Kokila B.

Literary Special 2023: Radical Empathy by Jai Arjun Singh

10 min read . 06 Jan 2023

Varun Dhawan in 'Bhediya'

Moral monsters and the greater good

6 min read . 03 Dec 2022

Shirley MacLaine in 'Only Murders in the Building'

One Sweet Cocotini for Shirley MacLaine

5 min read . 16 Jul 2022

An illustrated 1946 cover of 'filmindia' featuring Dilip Kumar

The unreserved Dilip Kumar

9 min read . 07 Jul 2021

Dhanush in 'Karnan'

The sword and the razor: 'Karnan' and 'Mandela'

5 min read . 27 May 2021

(from left) Bharati Achrekar, Aanjjan Srivastav and Sheehan Kapahi in 'Wagle Ki Duniya: Nayi Peedhi Naye Kisse'

The changing world of Wagle

6 min read . 20 Mar 2021

Opinion | Introverts haven’t had it much better than extroverts

4 min read . 09 Jul 2020

Rishi Kapoor in 'Do Premee' (1980)

Rishi Kapoor, not your typical Hindi film hero

5 min read . 30 Apr 2020

Rishi Kapoor in 'Do Premee' (1980)

Rishi Kapoor, not your typical Hindi film hero

5 min read . 30 Apr 2020

Posters in Kolkata. Namrata Joshi’s book examines film production and fandom in different parts of India. (Photo: Alamy)

The many fantasies of ‘Reel India’

4 min read . 30 Aug 2019

Posters in Kolkata. Namrata Joshi’s book examines film production and fandom in different parts of India. (Photo: Alamy)

The many fantasies of ‘Reel India’

4 min read . 30 Aug 2019

Raakhee and MK Raina in Awtar Krishna Kaul's '27 Down'.

50 years of Hindi alternative cinema

26 min read . 04 May 2019

A still from the 2018 film, Mari Selvaraj’s ‘Pariyerum Perumal’.

Opinion | This skinny blue dog is me

4 min read . 21 Dec 2018

Orson Welles (left) on the sets of ‘The Other Side Of The Wind’.

Opinion | The other side of the camera

4 min read . 07 Dec 2018

A still from the Kamal Haasan (left) starrer, ‘Apoorva Sagodharargal’ (1989)

Honey, I shrunk the hero

4 min read . 23 Nov 2018

Adil Hussain with Maria Mozhdah (who plays his daughter) in ‘What Will People Say’. (Adil Hussain with Maria Mozhdah (who plays his daughter) in ‘What Will People Say’.)

Opinion | A soft-spoken patriarch

4 min read . 11 Nov 2018

Sohum Shah as Vinayak in ‘Tumbbad’.

When ‘Tumbbad’ met ‘The Terror’

3 min read . 27 Oct 2018