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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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Setters, Review: Questionable answers • May 03, 2019 at 05:21 PM
by Siraj Syed

Setters, Review: Questionable answers Job-oriented education has been a hot topic in India, where unemployment figures and poverty levels are very high. Corruption begins when a child is admitted to...

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Ashwini Chaudhary
Siraj Ahmed
Shreyas Talpade
Pavan Malhotra
Ishita Dutta
Vijay Raaz
Anil Charanjeett
Sonalli Seygall
Aftab Shivdasani
Neeraj Sood
Salim
Sulaiman
Raftaar
Dr. Sagar
Enbee
Venus Singh
Pankaj Jha
Manu Rishi
Santosh Thundiyil
Manik Dawar
Simranjeet Singh Malhotra
Dipika Lal
Anirudh Singh
Jameel Khan
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After, Review: Noah’s arch • May 03, 2019 at 12:15 PM
by Siraj Syed

After, Review: Noah’s arch Teens to twenties romances do not come to us as just pure teenage romances, which can get terribly boring. There was Love Story, with cancer as the villain, and there was...

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Truth or Dare
Khadijha Red Thunder
Shane Paul McGhie
Samuel Larsen
Inanna Sarkis
Swen Temmel
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
NYU Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing
Harry Styles
Anna Todd
Jenny Gage
Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
Avril Lavigne
Julia Goldani Telles
Josephine Langford
Susan McMartin
Tamara Chestna
JANE EYRE
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Tarpan, Review: Pride and prejudice • Apr 27, 2019 at 07:17 PM
by Siraj Syed

Tarpan, Review: Pride and prejudice To draw even minimal audiences, films like Tarpan need three boosters: positive reviews, film festivals exposure and word-of-mouth publicity. They pick up dark...

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Manoj Nayan
Rakesh Nirala
Sanjay Pathak
Sukumar Jatania
Sunil Yadav
Sunil Pandey
Neelam R. Singh
Shivmurti
Nand Kishor Pant
Neelam
Sanjai Kumar
Rahul Chauhan
Vandana Asthana
Arun Shekhar
Abhishek Madarecha
Padmaja Roy
Mukesh Kumar
Lalit Kumar
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Avengers, Endgame: Thanostradamus • Apr 26, 2019 at 02:25 PM
by Siraj Syed

Avengers, Endgame: Thanostradamus As star casts go, Avengers: Endgame runs up a mind-boggling score. Like in theatrical performances, where all characters come on to the stage after the performance...

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Tessa Thompson
Rene Russo
John Slattery
Tilda Swinton
Hayley Atwell
natalie portman
Marisa Tomei
Taika Waititi
Angela Bassett
William Hurt
Sean Gunn
Winston Duke
Maximiliano Hernández
Frank Grillo
Jacob Batalon
Robert Redford
Benedict Cumberbatch Chadwick Boseman
Tom Holland
Zoe Saldana
Evangeline Lilly
Elizabeth Olsen
Anthony Mackie
Sebastian Stan
Tom Hiddleston
Pom Klementieff
Dave Bautista
Letitia Wright
Michelle Pfeiffer
Cobie Smulders
Linda Cardellini
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Chris Pratt
Benedict Wong
Gwyneth Plaltrow
Jon Favreau
Karen Gillan
Danai Kurera
Brie Larsen
Christopher Markus
Stephen McFeely
Stan Lee
Paul Rudd
don cheadle
Jeremy Renner
Chris Evans
Chris Hemworth
Joe Russo
Anthony Russo
Scarlett Johansson
Robert Downey Jr
Josh Brolin
mark ruffalo
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Kalank, Review: Masochistic miasma • Apr 18, 2019 at 03:09 PM
by Siraj Syed

Kalank, Review: Masochistic miasma Everything in Kalank (blemish, stigma) is grand, both in content and in form. Sets and décor, riches and poverty, locales and vehicles, make-up and costumes,...

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Abhishek Varman
Aditya Roy Kapur
Ali Merchant
Alia Bhatt
Amitabh Bhattacharya
Amrita Mahal
Antara Mitra
Binod Pradhan
Hussain Dalal
Javed Ali
Karan Johar
Kiara Advani
Kriti Sanon
Kshamata Sachin Gurav
Kunal Khemmu
Madhuri Dixit
Maxima Basu
Pravin Tambe
Pritam
Sanjay Dutt
Sham Kaushal
Shibani Bathija
Shreya Ghoshal
Shweta Venkat Mathew
Singh
Sonakshi Sinha
Tushar Joshi
Varun Dhawan
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