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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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Dumbo, Review: Have ears, will fly • Mar 29, 2019 at 03:37 PM
by Siraj Syed

Dumbo, Review: Have ears, will fly When they first thought of a new Dumbo, perhaps the best decision Disney and Burton made was to remake their 1941 animation film in live action, adding 3D for the...

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Nico Parker
Finley Hobbins
Roshan Seth
Ben Davis
danny elfman
Chris Lebenzon
Colin Farrell
Tim Burton
Michael Keaton
Danny De Vito
Ehren Kruger
Helen Aberson
Harold Pearl
Eva Green
Alan Arkin
Andrew Bennett
Dean Clegg
Gregory Fangeaux
Mark Harris
Chris Lowe
Oli van der Vijver
Loic Zimmermann
John Bush
Cosmo Sarson
Colleen Atwood
Disney
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The Least of These, Review: More was needed • Mar 27, 2019 at 04:29 PM
by Siraj Syed

The Least of These, Review: More was needed In India’s turbulent political climate, making a true-story movie on the life and work of a Christian Missionary who was accused of forced conversions and...

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Stephen Baldwin
Shari Rigby
Sharman Joshi
Prakash Belawadi
Manoj Mishra
Aditi Chengappa
Bhaskar Shewalkar
Aneesh Daniel
Andrew Matthew
Odisha
Orissa
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Gone Kesh, Review: The bald is the beautiful • Mar 27, 2019 at 04:10 AM
by Siraj Syed

Gone Kesh, Review: The bald is the beautiful An English-Hindi composite pun constitutes the title, playing upon ‘gone case’, which term is used to describe someone who is so far ‘gone’ into...

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Qasim Khallow
Dipika Deshpande-Amin
Vipin Sharma
Brijendra Kala
Jitendra Kumar
Shashi Kiran
Shweta Tripathi-Sharma
Kanish Sharma
Bishakh Jyoti
Bharat-Hitarth
Shahid Mallya
Asees Kaur
Kavita Seth
Mohan Kannan
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Persis Khambata
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Us, Review: Shadow boxing • Mar 26, 2019 at 06:55 PM
by Siraj Syed

Us, Review: Shadow boxing Us takes its own time in building up a premise and gives no indication that it is going to turn-out as a horror film, with macabre goings on and blood-baths included. To...

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Jordan Peele
Lupita Nyong'o
Winston Duke
Elisabeth Moss
Tim Heidecker
Shahadi Wright Joseph
Evan Alex
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Ardh Satya: Govind Nihalani revisits the time of half-truth • Mar 16, 2019 at 09:48 AM
by Siraj Syed

Ardh Satya: Govind Nihalani revisits the time of half-truth Many things were happening in Indian cinema during the early 1980s. The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) was financing and...

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Kenji Mizoguchi
Aakrosh
Om Puri
Amrish Puri
Renu Saluja
Naseeruddin Shah
Smita Patil
DrohKaal
Dev
Kamlu Happy Happy
Thakshak
Pratik Rajen Kothari
White Wall screenings
League of Independent Filmmakers
S.D. Panwalkar
Vijay Tendulkar
Ajit Verman
Vasant Dev
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Ti Ani Itar
Amitabh Bachchan
Shafi Inamdar
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