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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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Solo: A Star Wars Story, Review: Buccaneer, Chewbacca, the survival axiom and the deadly coaxium • May 25, 2018 at 09:07 PM
by Siraj Syed

Solo: A Star Wars Story, Review: Buccaneer, Chewbacca, the survival axiom and the deadly coaxium A long time ago (41 years) in a cinema hall far, far away from my home, I saw the first Star Wars...

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Alden Ehrenreich
Billy Dee Williams
Donald Glover
Emilia Clarke
Harrison Ford
Imperial AT-Hauler
John Powel
John Williams
Jon Favreau
Jonathan Kasdan
Joonas Suotamo
L3-37
Lawrence Kasdan
Leonardo Di Caprio. Woody Harrelson
lErin Kellyman
Linda Hunt
Michael K. Williams
Paul Bettany
Peter Mayhew
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Ron Howard
Thandie Newton
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Book Club, Review: Life begins at sexty • May 25, 2018 at 09:08 PM
by Siraj Syed

Book Club, Review: Life begins at sexty With a combined age of 563 and an average age of 70.4, there’s no way these eight fuddy-duddies are going to do a Fifty Shades of Grey. Well, they did set out...

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.Bill Holderman
Alicia Silverstone
Andy Garcia
Candice Bergen
Craig T. Nelson
Diane Keaton
Diane! Fitness
Don Johnson
E. L. James
Ed Begley Jr
Erika Mitchell Leonard
Erin Simms
Fifty Shades of Grey
Jane Fonda
Katie Aselton
Mary Steenburgen
Mircea Monroe
Mother’s Day
Richard Dreyfuss
Robert Redford
Tommy Dewey
Wallace Shawn
Wildwood Enterprises
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High Jack, Review: Hitting a new low • May 18, 2018 at 05:53 PM
by Siraj Syed

High Jack, Review: Hitting a new low Several theories come up when you try and analyse what went wrong with a potentially high scoring black comedy. Firstly, it seems to be incomplete, with large...

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stoner
black comedy
Rahul Dravid
Vikramaditya Motwane
Vikas Bahl
Akarsh Khurana
Adhir Bhat
Sumeet Vyas
Mantra
Puranjit Dasgupta
Sonnalli Seygall
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
Natasha Rastogi
Taaruk Raina
Priyanshu Painyuli
Nipun Dharmadhikari
Ashar Khurana
Sarthak Kakkar
Muzammil Qureshi
Sarang Sathye
Radhika Bangia
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Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain, Review: Show me that you love me • May 18, 2018 at 05:42 AM
by Siraj Syed

Angrezi Mein Kehte Hain, Review: Show me that you love me Delhi-born director Harish Vyas makes his Hindi film debut with an adult love story set in Varanasi where the only thing adult about the...

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Harish Vyas
Aryan Saha
Majrooh Sultanpuri
Sanjay Mishra
Pankaj Tripathi
Shivani Raghuvanshi
Ekavali Khanna
Brijendra Kala
Imran Zahid
Teji Sandhu
Ipshita Chakroberty.
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Khajoor Pe Atke, Review: Free fall and die hard • May 18, 2018 at 03:25 AM
by Siraj Syed

Khajoor Pe Atke, Review: Free fall and die hard Ventilator, a Marathi film produced by Hindi actress Priyanka Chopra, became the toast of Maharashtra in late 2016. The story of a family, whose...

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Alka Amin
Harsh Chhaya
Manoj Pahwa
Nagesh Bhosle
Prathamesh Parab
Priyanka Chopra
Sanah Kapoor
Seema Pahwa
Suneeta Sengupta
Vandita Shrivastava
Ventilator
Vicky Arora
Vinay Pathak
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