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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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Shikara-- The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits, Review: Paradise lost • Feb 07, 2020 at 08:32 PM
by Siraj Syed

Shikara-- The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits, Review: Paradise lost A hot potato by any yard-stick, the plight of Kashmir Pandits, who were forced to leave the strife-torn land of Kashmir to live...

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Ameer Khusrau
John Milton
Jammu
refugee camp
Babri Masjid
K.K. Raina
Faisal Simon
Mission Kashmir
Parinda
Broken Horses
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Abhijat Joshi
Rahul Pandita
Kashmiri Pandits
A. R. Rahman
Qutub-e-Kripa
Sandesh Shandilya
Abhay Sopori
Rohit Kulkarni
nazm-based Urdu poetry
Irshad Kamil
Taj Mahal
Bashir Arif
Raqueeb Alam
Aadil Khan
Sadia
Rangarajan Ramabadran
Shikhar Misra
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Malang, Review: Why knot when you cannot unknot? • Feb 07, 2020 at 04:18 PM
by Siraj Syed

Malang, Review: Why knot when you cannot unknot? Six cops, a serial cop killer, a wandering maiden, a Swedish female drug peddler and a sexually starved wife form the core dramatis personae of...

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Aseem Arrora
Anirudhha Guha
Mohit Suri
T-Series
Kunal Roy Kapur
Disha Patani
Anil Kapoor
Elli AvrRam
Kunal Kemmu
Dirty Harry
Amruta Khanvilkar
Keith Sequeira
Shaad Randhawa
Vatsal Sheth
Mahek Manwani
Devika Vatsa
Prasad Jawade
Nigerian drug-dealer
Mithoon
Ankit Tiwari
Asim Azhar
Ved Sharma
The Fusion Project
Raju Singh
Vikas Sivaraman
Devendra Murdeshwar
detached
saintly
carefree
Sufi
seer
crime
Vendetta
whodunit
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RIFF 2020: Winners all • Feb 06, 2020 at 07:10 AM
by Siraj Syed

RIFF 2020: Winners all Below is the complete list of award-winners at the 6th Rajasthan International Film Festival (RIFF), Jaipur, January 18-22, 2020. The distribution ceremony was held at the...

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jaipur
Jodhpur
Somendra Harsh
Anshu Harsh
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Isabelle Balducci
Samir Tewari
Namita Lal
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MIFF 2020: A lost homeland land and a new home • Feb 06, 2020 at 06:19 AM
by Siraj Syed

MIFF 2020: A lost homeland land and a new home Eight years and eighty lakhs is what it took USA-based music-video maker Sapna Bhavnani to make Sindhustan, 64-minute a labour of love, about the...

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Damaadam mast qalandar
Yogesh Waghmare
Sapna Bhavnani
Sindhustan
largest migration in history
Arijit Datta
Hindu Sindhis
Sind
pakistan
Atanu Mukherjee
Wig
LGBT
kashish
Ajrak
Madhubani
Nepal
Saif
Hajampara
Shikarpur
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MIFF 2020, Open Forum 2: “Viewers are willing to pay for docu content” • Feb 06, 2020 at 05:37 AM
by Siraj Syed

MIFF 2020, Open Forum 2: “Viewers are willing to pay for docu content” Documentaries rarely provide investment returns, let alone earning profits. But that is about to change, or has it changed...

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Sanskar Desai
Ashok Kumar
Vats-Sharma
Indian Documentary Producers’ Association
Ravi Iyer
IDPA
Manika Verma
Netflix
Tasneem Lokhandwala
epic
Adita Jain
Docubay
Ramesh Meer
FX Factory
Global Content Forum
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