JAI ARJUN SINGH

The writer is the author of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee

The writer is the author of The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee

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Stories by the author

• Romance redefined: The rise of dark and unconventional romantic stories in cinema, where love is not just candlelight dinners

  
  23 May 2026 11:31 PM IST
• How films distort grief—and create memories that never happened

  
  21 Mar 2026 10:36 PM IST
• When a great artist suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous parental fortune

  
  22 Feb 2026 12:09 AM IST
• Jai Sriram...Raghavan! An anti-war war movie, with meta help from Paaji & Asrani

  
  10 Jan 2026 11:00 PM IST
• A lost-and-found dog, cracker-bursting psychopaths, & joys of being misanthropic

  
  15 Nov 2025 11:34 PM IST
• Dilli, teri jaan will never know what the @!$#'ll happen in this town

  
  07 Jun 2025 08:48 PM IST
• Don't hold back! Gimme those sharp, over-the-top movies of excess!

  
  19 Apr 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Music beyond the efforts of even a Dylan

  
  08 Mar 2025 11:21 PM IST
• Weirded out when kids play grown-ups?

  
  25 Jan 2025 10:46 PM IST
• Shyam Benegal: The playful visionary who redefined parallel cinema

  
  24 Dec 2024 10:34 PM IST
• Exploring caregiving and complexity in 'His Three Daughters' on Netflix

  
  20 Oct 2024 12:31 AM IST
• Patjhad, Saawan, Vasant Vihar: How misheard filmi lyrics can be too embarrassing to share in public

  
  31 Aug 2024 11:04 PM IST
• All you need is 15-LOVE to start a match

  
  20 Jul 2024 11:30 PM IST
• Oh, for the things we loved to hate: Judwaa songs reveal big truths in politically incorrect fun

  
  22 Jun 2024 11:21 PM IST
• Filmed theatre - to be or not to be? In this case, 'to be' is not in question

  
  04 May 2024 09:57 PM IST
• Recreating creation: This year’s Oscar winners showcase the creative process — in art, science and relationships

  
  7 mins read11 Mar 2024
• In movies, as in life, we contain multitudes

  
  24 Feb 2024 11:11 PM IST
• What's common to Karna and Matthew Perry?

  
  13 Jan 2024 11:01 PM IST
• View: You thought you know the film? Well, you don't

  
  09 Dec 2023 11:00 PM IST
• Classic films in restored prints are more than enough to make a movie buff rethink relationship with old cinema

  
  04 Nov 2023 11:11 PM IST
• On what ifs, star turns and hard luck chance encounters

  
  23 Sep 2023 08:44 PM IST
• Garam to Naram: How fans cope with Dharmendra as vulnerable grandfather in KJo's latest Bollywood drama

  
  05 Aug 2023 09:01 PM IST
• View: Time travel can be an emotional rollercoaster

  
  01 Jul 2023 10:04 PM IST
• View: Is duplicating our gods on screen fair or foul game?

  
  03 Jun 2023 11:01 PM IST
• Meanwhile, making the unprintable printable

  
  29 Apr 2023 11:00 PM IST
• All That Breathes: Shaunak Sen’s Oscar nominated documentary is breathless in a world that is alive and flies

  
  01 Apr 2023 08:03 PM IST
• How 'offensive' films like In Bruges tell us more about humanity than many inoffensive stories

  
  25 Feb 2023 11:00 PM IST
• RRR’s Golden Globe nominations say as much about awards as about films they ‘discover’

  
  6 mins read14 Dec 2022
• How even a sensitive, kindly director might be put into the position of making a child cry for his art

  
  5 mins read3 Dec 2022
• View: Gory hallelujah, the horror of discontent

  
  05 Nov 2022 11:00 PM IST
• View: Mix 'n' match 'n' montage 24 frames a second

  
  01 Oct 2022 11:09 PM IST
• How a movie led to the wonderful wizard Salman Rushdie

  
  20 Aug 2022 09:11 PM IST
• When you wish upon a star, makes a lot of difference if it's Ashok Kumar

  
  5 mins read23 Jul 2022
• A peepal in our park has a dog spirit in it

  
  26 Jun 2022 12:00 AM IST
• How a ‘lowbrow’ TV soap can be an intellectual stimulant-cum-memory-generator

  
  5 mins read28 May 2022
• Sharmaji Namkeen’s two great actors shapeshift into each other

  
  30 Apr 2022 11:01 PM IST
• Watching films on tiny screens: An insincere rant

  
  02 Apr 2022 11:01 PM IST
• How do people binge through show after show without taking a break to think about what they have watched?

  
  05 Mar 2022 11:00 PM IST
• How Filmi, how over-the-top spin can this sport get?

  
  05 Feb 2022 08:59 PM IST
• Walk on the wild side of beasts and men (or victims and predators)

  
  08 Jan 2022 11:00 PM IST
• Why Annette is reminiscent of a classic Richard Matheson story about a vicious child and its exasperated parents

  
  5 mins read11 Dec 2021
• A new TV show about a likable Punjabi clan turns into a hard, unflinching look at the dark side of good old Indian ‘family values’

  
  13 Nov 2021 10:52 PM IST
• Dadagiri: On Bollywood stars, their grandparents, and stars playing their grandparents

  
  5 mins read16 Oct 2021
• View: Keep me away from films showing dogs in canine danger

  
  18 Sep 2021 09:44 PM IST
• How a Malayalam film subverts the theme of the ‘frozen’ woman without coming across as laboured in its progressiveness

  
  5 mins read21 Aug 2021
• Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me — how murder can make a marriage stronger

  
  17 Jul 2021 09:56 PM IST