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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 50, IV: 17 films in specially curated Master Frames section 2019 marks the 50th year of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The 50th International Film Festival of India, 2019,...

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Costa Gavras
Dardenne Brothers
fatih akin
Pedro ALMODOVAR
Roy Andersson
Niels Arden Oplev
Arturo Ripstein
Francois Ozon
Semih Kaplanoglu

The Current War, Review: DC Edison v/s AC Westinghouse Unless you do some background reading, this review included, you will not guess that the film is not about a conventional war but about the...

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Benedict Cumberbatch
Martin Scorsese
101 Studios
Chung-hoon Chung
David Trachtenberg
Justin Krohn
Matthew Macfadyen
Harvey Weinstein
Stanley Townsend
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Michael Shannon
Tuppence Middleton
Tom Holland
Katherine Waterston
Thomas Alva Edison
George Westinghouse
Nikola Tesla
Michael Mitnick
Timur Bekmambetov

Terminator-Dark Fate, Review: Terminal stillness With a title like Dark Fate, they have already let the cat out of the bag. It is bound to end in one or more of its heroes/heroines dying, meeting...

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Alicia Borrachero
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Billy Ray
Charles Eglee
David Goyer
DIEGO BONETA
Enrique Arce
Gabriel Luna
james cameron
Josh Friedman
Justin Rhodes
Ken Seng
Lee Strasberg
Linda Hamilton
Mackenzie Davis
Natalia Reyes
Rev-9
Sarah Connor
Steven Cree
T-1000
T-800
Tim Miller

Ujda Chaman, Review: Hair loss, weight gain Barren follicles and overflowing lipids can, and often do, cause the corps to be subjected to taunts and ridicule for extended periods of time, maybe all...

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Saurabh Shukla
Atul Kumar
Shashi Kohli
Grusha Kapoor
Gagan Arora
Sudhir K. Chaudhary
Mitesh Soni Sharma
Aaina Ali Khan
Sharib Hashmi
Manoj Bakshi
Aishwarya Sakhuja
Dharmendra Singh Sharma
Sunny Singh Nijjar
Abhishek Pathak
Gourov-Roshin
Guru Randhawa
Danish J. Singh
Ondu Motteya Kathe
Maanvee Gagroo
Bhumi Pednekar
Raj B. Shetty
Kumar Mangat
celibate testostorone

IFFI 50, III: 50th festival since 1952 Started way back in 1952, the first ever IFFI was organised by the Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, with the...

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panaji
Goa
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Vittorio DFe Sica
Bicycle Thieves
Satyajit Ray
Suraiya
Filmotsav
bombay
mumbai