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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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IFFI 50: Some people will work, some will bless—Rohit Shetty • Dec 07, 2019 at 05:56 AM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI 50: Some people will work, some will bless—Rohit Shetty The last session at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) Goa ended with a bang with blockbuster director Rohit Shetty,...

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Singham
Golmaal 1
Ajay Devgn
Veeru Devgn
Shetty
Neeraj Vora
Myaank Shekhar
Amitabh Bachchan
Zameen
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IFFI 50: Ceremonial closing • Dec 07, 2019 at 05:12 AM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI 50: Ceremonial closing As the sun set over the river Mandovi in Goa, on the 28th of November, 2019, the 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) rolled out the red carpet...

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Dr. Pramod Sawant
Manohar Parikkar
Mandovi
Amit Satija
Manju Borah
Aravind Swamy
Haubam Paban Kumar
Babul Supriyo
Chopra
Satyajit Ray
Miike
Amit Khare
Wagner Moura
Rakulpreet Singh
Vijay Deverakonda
Rohit Shetty
Aanand L Rai
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Nithya Menen
and other lights and luminaManohar Ajgaonkar
Chandrakanth Kavlekar
Roopa Ganguly
Ravi Kishan
Parimal Rai
Entertainment Society of Goa
Subhash PhalDesai
Shaji N. Karun
Rahul Rawail
John Bailey
Robin Campillo
Zhang Yang
Lynne Ramsay
Ramesh Sippy
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IFFI 50: Press conferences of Gautam Halder and Pankaj Johar • Dec 07, 2019 at 03:29 AM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI 50: Press conferences of Gautam Halder and Pankaj Johar Nirvana depicts Ramkrishna Paramhansa’s teaching, “Joto mot, toto poth meaning,” there are more than one ways of attaining salvation:...

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Ambiance
FESTIVALS
Nirban
Kailash Satyarthi
POSCO
Bachpan Bachao Andolan
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Pati Patni Aur Woh, Review: Eternal try angle • Dec 06, 2019 at 07:57 AM
by Siraj Syed

Pati Patni Aur Woh, Review: Eternal try angle Same title, same production house, same concept, yet Pati Patni Aur Woh is nothing like its 1978 original. Crucial elements like the ‘woh’ (she) being...

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Chirantan Das
Ninad Khanolkar
Mudassar Aziz
BR
Jasmeet K. Reen
Ankhiyon se goli mare
Dulhe Raja
Kartik Aryan
Bhumi Pednekar
Aparshakti Khurana
Ananya Pandey
Rajesh Sharma
K. K. Raina
Navni Parihar
Neeraj Sood
Geeta Agarwal
Sharma
Shubham Kumar
Sunny Singh
Kriti Sanon
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Inside Edge 2: There’s many a snick between the bat and slip • Dec 04, 2019 at 05:13 PM
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Inside Edge 2: There’s many a snick between the bat and slip Inside Edge, the first original foray on to the digital platform in India by Amazon Prime, returns tomorrow with its Season 2. Based on...

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Richa Chadha
Vivek Anand Oberoi
Angad Bedi
Farhan Akhtar
Ritesh Sidhwani
Excel Entertainment
Aamir Bashir
Tanuj Virwani
Sapna Pabbi
Amit Sial
Siddhant Chaturvedi
Sayani Gupta
Manu Rishi Chadha
Elli AvrRam
Jitin Gulati
Karan Anshuman
Aakash Bhatia
Mirzapur
Gurmmeet Singh
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