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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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Bhoot, the Haunted Ship-Part I, Review: Scares are scarce • Feb 21, 2020 at 03:21 PM
by Siraj Syed

Bhoot, the Haunted Ship-Part I, Review: Scares are scarce Considering the negligible number of ghost stories being made in India, Bhoot, the Haunted Ship-Part I, made by names Dharma and ZEE, would...

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Akhil Sachdeva
Ketan Sodha
Pushkar Singh
Bodhaditiya Banerjee
Karan Johar
Dharma Productions
Zee
Bhanu Pratap Singh
Vicky Kaushal
Bhumi Pednekar
Sara Khalid Gesawat
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Alang
MV Wisdom
Ashutosh Rana
Meher Vij
Ghost
Siddhant Kapoor
creepy
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Brahms the Boy II, Review: Let sleeping dolls lie • Feb 21, 2020 at 05:29 AM
by Siraj Syed

Brahms the Boy II, Review: Let sleeping dolls lie A potentially scary movie that does not scare you loses all meaning. Avoiding tropes should not mean doing away with horrible goings on almost...

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Cliff Richard
Harry Webb
Livin' doll
William Brent Bell
Stacey Menear
Owain Yeoman
Katie Holmes
Christopher Convery
The Boy
Ralph Ineson
Anjali Jay
Bengaluru
Brett Detar
Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Brian Berdan
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Shukranu-Hui Emotion ki Nasbandi, Review: Tale of forced sterilisations lacks potency • Feb 16, 2020 at 07:06 AM
by Siraj Syed

Shukranu-Hui Emotion ki Nasbandi, Review: Tale of forced sterilisations lacks potency In modern Indian history, the Internal Emergency, proclaimed in 1975 and in place for about two years, is...

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Aakash Dabhade
Advait Nemlekar
Bishnu Dev Halder
Deven Murdeshwar
Divyenndu Sharma
Good Newzz
Harish Sagane
impotency
Indian National Congress
internal emergency
mass sterilisations
Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Nasbandi
Raj Bhansali
Rajesh Khattar
Ravi Kumar
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Sanjay Jaipurwale
Sayak Bhattacharya
Sheetal Thakur
Shweta Basu Prasad
sperm
Sudhir Singh
Vicky Donor
Vijay Raaz
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Fantasy Island, Review: Risks submersion • Feb 15, 2020 at 06:31 PM
by Siraj Syed

Fantasy Island, Review: Risks submersion Inspired is equal measure by two incompatible sources as divergent as Agatha Christie and the U.S.S.R. film Solaris, Fantasy Island plays deep desires...

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Suspense
horror
Supernatural
detective
science fiction
Michael Pena
Maggie Q
Lucy Hale
Austin Stowell
Portia Doubleday
Jimmy O. Yang
Ryan Hansen
Michael Rooker
Parisa Fitz-Henley
Evan Evagora
Charlotte McKinney
Gene Levitt
Jeff Wadlow
Chris Roach
Jillian Jacobs
Agatha Christie novels
Ten Little Niggers
And Then There Were None
Ten Little Indians
Murder on the Orient Express
solaris
Stanislaw Lem
Fridrikh Gorenshtein
Andrei Tarkovsky
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Love Aaj Kal 2020, Review: 141 minutes of messy, moronic, melodramatic mishmash • Feb 15, 2020 at 06:35 PM
by Siraj Syed

Love Aaj Kal 2020, Review: 141 minutes of messy, moronic, melodramatic mishmash What do you do when that elusive commodity called plot decides to stay clear of your net? You dig into your archives...

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Aarti Bajaj
Aarushi Sharma
Amit Roy
Imtiaz Ali
Ishaan Chhabra
Jab We Met
Kartik Aaryan
Love Aaj Kal
Pritam
Randeep Hooda
Salman Khan
Sara Ali Khan
shahrukh khan
Simone Singh
Valentine Day
When Harry Met Sally
When Harry Met Sejal
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