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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

IFFI 52, 016: FTII professor Ganga Mukhi on Satyajit Ray “Satyajit Ray believed that our cinema must have a language of its own. Through his self-study, he created his own style of...

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Pather Panchali
FTII
The Apu Trilogy

IFFI 52, 015: In Conversation with The Family Man, aka India’s James Bond “I never try to make the character larger than life. I always try to live in the reality and make the character a...

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Manoj Bajoayee
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Raj Nidimoru
Krishna D.K.
Aparna Purohit
India Originals
Amazon Prime

IFFI 52, 014: ‘75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow’ youngest winner is only 16 As the country is celebrating the 75th year of its hard-earned freedom with Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav (75 years of...

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Aryan Khan
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

IFFI 52, 013: Rest of the best Here are the details of all the winners at IFFI 52. The main prizes were covered in an earlier posting.  Indian Marathi language actor Jitendra Bhikulal Joshi...

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Angela Molina
Charlotte
Godavari
Jitendra Bhikulal Joshi
LGBTQIA+
Mari Alessandrini
Nikhil Mahajan
Nishikant Kamat
Renata Carvalho
Rodrigo de Oliveira
Roman Vasyanov
Simon Farriol
The Dorm
The Wealth of the World
Zahorí

IFFI 52, 012: What I saw and what I couldn’t bear to see Having given Carlos Saura’s The King of All the World, the inaugural film, a miss, I was hoping my viewing experiences would begin with a...

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Priyam Archi
Carlos Saura
Martin Scorcese
Istvan Szabo
Funral