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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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Chase--No Mercy to Crime, Review: Robbing trains for electoral gains • Aug 03, 2019 at 08:59 AM
by Siraj Syed

Chase--No Mercy to Crime, Review: Robbing trains for electoral gains A taut crime thriller in the making, Chase: No Mercy to Crime proceeds at a languorous pace that is quickened only by some rapid...

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Kumar Sanu
Trissha
Buddha
Sudhakar Sharma
Arabinda Narayan Dolai
Raj Singh Sindhu
Amyth Sethi
Sudip Mukherjee
Mushtaque Khan
Ramesh Goyal
Suvendu Raj Ghosh
Bob S.N.
Rohan D. Pathak
Pinaki Bose
Gulshan Pandey
Pandey
Gargi Patel
Sameeksha Gaur
Soham Bose
Dipanjjan Basak
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Ash is Purest White, Review: Never Love a Gangster • Jul 30, 2019 at 04:11 PM
by Siraj Syed

Ash is Purest White, Review: Never Love a Gangster Ash is Purest White is a tale of unrequited love that flows seamlessly along the backdrop of the socio-political upheavals in China, during...

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Casper LiAng
Diao Yi’nan
Fan Liao
Jia LiDing
Jia Zhangke
JiaDong
Lin JiaYan
Lord Guan
PVR
Sanjay Suri
Shanxi
Srinivasan Narayanan
Tao Zhao
Three Gorges Dam
Tiananmen Square
ufo
vkaao
Yi Zhang and YiBai Zhang
Zheng Xu
ZiJian Dong
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Family of Thakurganj, Review: Nannu, Munnu and nothing New, New • Jul 19, 2019 at 10:52 AM
by Siraj Syed

Family of Thakurganj, Review: Nannu, Munnu and nothing New, New Referencing dozens of mafia/gangster movies made in India and the West, Family of Thakurganj glorifies crime for the major part, gets...

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Sudhir Pandey
Mukesh Tiwari
Manoj Pahwa
Yashpal Sharma
Mafia
Sonu Nigam
Mika Singh
Dev Negi
Jyotica Tangri
Shreya Ghoshal. Zutshi
Lokesh Tilakdhari
Vishal Singh
Shivika Rishi
Priya Mishra
Salil AcharyaMalhotra
Supriya Pilgaonkar
Manoj K. Jha
Dilip Shukla
Jimmy Sheirgill
Mahie Gill
Saurabh Shukla
Sajid-Wajid
Danish Sabri
Pranati Rai Prakash
Nandish Singh Sandhu
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Jabariya Jodi, First look: Swinging infection • Jul 18, 2019 at 08:27 AM
by Siraj Syed

Jabariya Jodi, First look: Swinging infection Jodi, literally, means a pair, in Urdu and Hindi. It also refers to husband and wife. Jabar or jabr is force, and jabariya, by extension, means forced...

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Parineeti Chopra
Sidharth Malhotra
Javed Jaffrey
Raja Hasan
Dev Negi
Monali Thakur
Navrang
Andheri
Pravesh Mallick Singh
Sanjeev Jha
Bihar
Patna
forced marriage
bhojpuri
Maithili
Magadhi
Prashant Singh
Bihari
Sanjai Mishra
Aparshakti Khurana
Sheeba Chaddha
Aaryan Arora
Tanishk Bagchi
Ashok Mastie and Vishal Mishra
Raj Shekhar
Rashmi Virag
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The Lion King, Review: The Lions Sing • Jul 19, 2019 at 09:25 PM
by Siraj Syed

For a film production company that has been in the animation business for 90 years, and earned its initial popularity by creating Mickey Mouse, making a film, replete with state-of-the-art,...

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Alfre Woodard
Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
Billy Eichner
Brenda Chapman
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Disney
Donald Glover
Elton John
Eric Andre
Florence Kasumba
Hans Zimmer
Irene Mecchi
JD McCrary
Jeff Nathanson
John Kani
John Oliver
Jon Favreau
Jonathan Roberts
Keegan-Michael Key
Linda Woolverton
Rowan Atkinson
Seth Rogen
Shahadi Wright Joseph
The Jungle King
Tim Rice
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