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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. 

 
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That Sunday, Review: Rape is feign • Nov 07, 2020 at 03:56 PM
by Siraj Syed

That Sunday, Review: Rape is feign A piece of jazz lets you in on the scene wherein the actor is watching cartoons, with a remote control in his hand and nodding his head. He is a middle-aged man,...

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Atif Afzal
Dipesh Shah
Pawan Singh
Payal Singh
Prabhakar Meena Bhaskar Pant
Pushkar Bhaskar
Rohit Pathak
Shankar Ramakrishnan Iyer
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Lunch With My Friend’s Wife, Review: Not with his friend’s wife • Nov 01, 2020 at 02:19 PM
by Siraj Syed

Lunch With My Friend’s Wife, Review: Not with his friend’s wife That is a dilemma and a conundrum. Firstly, the lunch takes just a few seconds of the 15 minute 13 second film. Secondly, it is not...

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Alfred Hitchcock
stephen king
Sanjiv K. Jotangia
Anushka Singh
Mahesh Rajan
Shankar Ramakrishnan Iyer
Kshitij Tarey
Kraftwerk
Girish Talpade
Prabhakar
‘Meena Bhaskar’ Pant
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Footfairy, Review: Feet loosened and fancy freed • Oct 28, 2020 at 05:38 PM
by Siraj Syed

Footfairy, Review: Feet loosened and fancy freed You won’t get it at first reading. The adage is ‘foot-loose and fancy free’. But my take on it is in the context of the serial murder mystery, in...

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Arvind Singh Rajput
Ashish Prakash Verma
Avinash Sonawane
foot-fetish
Gulshan Devaiah
Kanishk Verma
Kunal Roy Kapur
Pratik Deora
Sagarika Ghatge
serial-killer
Shahnawaz Alam.
Sumit Purohit
Vivaan Deshmukh
Yogesh Soman
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Aashram Grih-Pravesh, Overview: Lacks originality, packs technicality • Oct 28, 2020 at 05:37 PM
by Siraj Syed

Aashram Grih-Pravesh, Overview: Lacks originality, packs technicality Aashram is a nine-episode web series currently streaming on MX player, released on 28th August, and available for watching free....

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Aaditi Pohankar
Adhyayan Suman
Ajkay Kumar P.B.
Anupriya Goenka
Anurita Jha
Bobby Deol
Chandan Kowli
Darshan Kumar Tridha Chowdhury
Habib Faisal
Kuldeep Ruhil
Kumar RamPravesh
Mandal
Parinita Seth
Prakash Jha
Priyankar Basu
Rajeev Siddhartha
Sanjay Masoom
Tushar Pandey
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My Client’s Wife, Review: What you see is not what you get • Sep 04, 2020 at 09:45 AM
by Siraj Syed

With its lead players putting up pretences throughout the film, it is easy to label the film pretentious. To be fair, it is not pretentious. There is an element of sincerity in the making. My...

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Abhimanyu Singh
Akira Kurosawa
Alfred Hitchcock
Anjali Patil
Chandrashekhar Yadav
Chhattisgarh
Gireesh Sahdev
Japanese classic
K. Sethuraman
Mazhar Kamran
Mazhar Sayed
Nymphomaniac
Prabhakar Meena Bhaskar Pant
psycho
Raipur
Raj Khosla
Rashomon
Sanchit Balhara
Sanjay Chaturvedi
Sharib Hashmi
Teejanbai
Vijay Anand
Vishal Om Prakash
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