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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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Stree, Review: Ironing ‘bored’ • Sep 01, 2018 at 04:40 PM
by Siraj Syed

Stree, Review: Ironing ‘bored’ What do you call a female ghost? For want of a better word, the villagers who are haunted by this entity call it Stree (Hindi for woman). Fair enough. If English...

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Chanderi
Raj Nidimoru
Bhopal
Krishna D.K.
Rajkummar Rao
Sharddha Kapoor
Flora Asha Saini
Pankaj Tripathi
Sumit Arora
Aparshakti Khurrana
Vijay Raaz
Amar Kaushik
Aakash Dabhade
Atul Shrivastava
Nora Fatehi
Kriti Sanon
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Searching, Review: Top-notch laptop thriller? • Sep 01, 2018 at 12:11 PM
by Siraj Syed

Searching, Review: Top-notch laptop thriller? An Asian American plays the main lead in this girl gone missing tale, while the missing daughter is played by Asian American girls at four different...

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Juan Sebastian Baron
Nicholas D. Johnson
Will Merrick
Sara Sohn Mi-bo
Joseph Lee
Ric Sarabia
Sean O'Bryan
Dominic Hoffman
Connor McRaith
John Cho
Aneesh Chaganty
Sev Oharian
Margaret La
Bazelev
Kya Dawn Lau
Megan Liu
Alex Jane Go
Debra Messing
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Yamla Pagla Deewana--Phirse/3, Review: YPDP 3, Y indeed? • Sep 01, 2018 at 12:00 PM
by Siraj Syed

Yamla Pagla Deewana--Phirse/3, Review: YPDP 3, Y indeed? Is good judgement failing the Deols? And did any well-wisher not bring to their notice that the story and screenplay of Yamla Pagla Deewana...

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Anita Devgan
Annu Kapoor
Asrani
Binnu Dhillon
Bobby Deol
Bunty Rathore
Dharmendra
Dheeraj Rattan
Kriti Kharbanda
Mohan Kapur
Paresh Ganatra
Rajesh Sharma
Rekha
Salman Khan
SaReGaMa Carvaan
Satish Kaushik
Shatrughan Sinha
Sonkashi Sinha
Sunny Deol
Vankush Arora
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Papillon, Review: Watchable remake of impressive 1973 prison escape saga • Sep 02, 2018 at 09:57 AM
by Siraj Syed

Papillon, Review: Watchable remake of impressive 1973 prison escape saga A hard act to follow, Papillon 2017 finds release a year after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival....

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Aaron Guzikowski
Banco
Cayenne
Charlie Hunnam
Dalton Trumbo
Devil's Island
Dustin Hoffman
Eve Hewsen
Franklin J. Schaffner
Henri Charriere
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
Michael Noer
Rami Malek
Steve McQueen
Yorick Van Wageningen
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Alpha, Review: Man and his best friend surviving in the Ice Age • Aug 24, 2018 at 09:09 AM
by Siraj Syed

Alpha, Review: Man and his best friend surviving in the Ice Age It’s not a dog who is man’s best friend in Alpha, but a wolf given that name by Keda, a young man who lived in Upper Paleolithic...

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Kodi Smit-McPhee
Leonor Varela
chilean
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
icelandic
Faroese
Hafnarfjörður
Jens Charley Hultén
swedish
Czechoslovakian Vlcak
Albert Hughes
Allen Hughes
Upper Paleolithic Age
WOLF
dog
vulture
Joseph S. DeBeasi
Martin Gschlacht
Sandra Granovsky
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