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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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Naughty Gang, Review: Gang apes • May 31, 2019 at 02:20 AM
by Siraj Syed

Naughty Gang, Review: Gang apes We keep hearing at every seminar or conference that with the advances in technology, anybody, just anybody, can make a film. In various Indian film schools too,...

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Adi Irani
Deepak Chakraworty
Dev Kumar Thape
Firdaus Mewawala
Gauransh Chauhan
Kaif Khan
Kumar
Mayuresh Sawant
Mehnaz Shroff
Mukesh Tiwari
Nandini and Muqaddas Khan Kumar 'Virat'
Padmender Rawat
Paresh A. Shah
Raja and Harry Monika Ravan
Rajeev Shrivastava
Rajkumar Kannojia
Ramanjeet Singh
Ranjee
Rashmi Mishra
Rashmi Virag
Red Bulb
Sonia Bansal
Vijay Patkar
Virat
Viren Bika
Vividha Kirti
Wasim Siddique
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Nakkash/The Craftsman, Review: Balancing Dharma with Karma • May 30, 2019 at 05:37 AM
by Siraj Syed

Nakkash/The Craftsman, Review: Balancing Dharma with Karma Carving is a fine art that is dying, like many other man-made enterprises, what with mechanisation and changing tastes. One can see many...

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Zaigham Imam
Ianaamulhaq
Sharib Hashmi
Pawan Tiwari
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Ahaa Re (The Two Lovers/Oh, Look at You), Review: Castle of love on bedrock of food • May 26, 2019 at 02:56 PM
by Siraj Syed

Ahaa Re (The Two Lovers/Oh, Look at You), Review: Castle of love on bedrock of food When you want to make a film about love, lost and found, romance, sublime and selfless, it is a good idea not to...

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Alamgir
Dipankar De
Shakuntala Barua
Bhaswar Chattopadhyay
Paran Bandopadhyay
Harindrananth Chattopadhyaya
Utpal Dutt
Amrita Chattopadhyay Shubhro Shanka Das
Anuvab Pal
Bhaswar Chattopadhyay Ghosh
Rituparno Sengupta
Arifin Shuvoo
Rabindranath Tagore
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Satyajit Ray
Mrinal Sen
Ritwick Ghatak
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
dhaka
bangladesh
Faridpur
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Life in Metaphors-Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, by O.P. Srivastava: Well framed! • May 25, 2019 at 02:03 PM
by Siraj Syed

Life in Metaphors-Portraits of Girish Kasaravalli, by O.P. Srivastava: Well framed! A banker with a passion of cinema, Om Prakash Srivastava hung up his ATM to pursue his dream. In 2012, he attended...

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Avashesh
Ghatashraddha
Akramana
Mooru Darigalu
Tabarana Kathe
Bannada Vesha
Mane
Kannada
Ek Ghar
Kubi Matthu Iyala
Kraurya
Thaayi Saheba
Dweepa
Koormavatara and Ananathamurthy
Film and Television Institute of India
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Deepti Naval
Shyam Benegal
U.R. Ananthamurthy
Jehangir Chaudhary
FIPRESCI
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Brightburn, Review: Stay non-aliened • May 25, 2019 at 07:53 AM
by Siraj Syed

Brightburn, Review: Stay non-aliened Comic-book creators took Moses as inspiration and wrote out a character called Superman, who arrives on earth as a baby, in a spaceship, from a planet called...

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Gregory Alan Williams
Anne Humphrey
Stephen Blackehart
Jennifer Holland
Abraham Clinkscales
Christian Finlayson
Michael Rooker
James Gunn
Mark Gunn
Brian Gunn
Elizabeth Banks
Mother India
David Denman
Jackson A. Dunn
Matt Jones
Meredith Hagner
Emmie Hunter
Becky Wahlstrom
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