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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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The Strangers--Prey at Night, Review: “Why kill strangers?” “Why not?” • Mar 23, 2018 at 02:10 AM
by Siraj Syed

The Strangers--Prey at Night, Review: “Why kill strangers?” “Why not?” They last preyed on innocents in 2008. Since then, families must have been praying that they do not return. No such luck. A...

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Adrian Johnston
Spooky
prescient kind
ominous foreboding
Christina Hendricks
Martin Henderson
Bailee Madison
Lewis Pullman
Emma Bellomy
Damian Maffei
Lea Enslin
torturers
Bryan Bertino
Dollface
Pin Up Girl
Man in the Mask
Ben Ketai
Johannes Roberts
subversive
dangerous
masked killers
psychopathic killing
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The Past coming to haunt you • Mar 19, 2018 at 12:38 PM
by Siraj Syed

The Past coming to haunt you The Past is a terrifying horror story that has been shot in an actually ‘haunted’ location. The film stars Vedita Pratap Singh, Yuvraj Parasher, Rajesh Sharma, Samiksha...

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Kathak
salsa
Dunno Y2..Life is a Moment
Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun
Virar
Bhindi Bazaar Inc.
Mumbai 125km
Hemant Madhukar
Shailendra Pandey
JD
Shabaash--You Can Do It
Kadar Khan
Taash ke Patte
Mayo College Girls School
The Zero Line
Anurag Kashyap
Lalit Marathe Vedita Pratap Singh
Yuvraj Parasher
Rajesh Sharma
Samiksha Bhatt
Jaya Villey Soniya Albizuri
Allahabad
Agra
Gagan Puri
Black Night - Journey to Wagah Border
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Raja Abroadiya, Review: Staying home is a better option • Mar 18, 2018 at 04:34 AM
by Siraj Syed

Raja Abroadiya, Review: Staying home is a better option Both for the lead characters in the film, and potential viewers. If the film-makers had been warned in time to stay home themselves, the...

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25 Years
Abhishek Redkar.
Abhishek Singh PathaniaMukhtar Sahota
ABSS
Alankrita Bora. Yograj Singh
Haryana
Ishaan Sharma
Jatt
Karnal
Lakhwinder Singh Shabla
Manjinder Mani Singh
Munich
Olga Hoffmann
Prakash Gadhu
Pranav ‘Harry’ Verma
Robin Sohi
Sikh
Vaishnavi Macdonald
Vaishnavi Patwardhan
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7 Days in Entebbe/Entebbe, Review: Week plot • Mar 17, 2018 at 03:56 PM
by Siraj Syed

7 Days in Entebbe/Entebbe, Review: Week plot In the cast are the President of Uganda and Prime Minister of Israel, Defence Minister of Israel as well as several Israeli Prime Ministers-to-be. The...

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Nonso Anozie
Peter Sullivan
Denis Ménochet
Angel Bonnani
Rosamund Pike
Daniel Brühl. Eddie Marsan
Lior Ashkenazi
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Air France Flight 139
Bader-Meinhof gang
Brigitte Kuhlmann
Wilfried Bose
Faiz Jeber
Ali-Almaati
Brazilian-Portuguese José Padilha
Gregory Burke
Idi Amin Dada
uganda
Operation Thunderbolt
Yitzhak Rabin
Shimon Peres
Ehud Barak
Menachem Begin
Moshe Dayan
Yonatan Yoni Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu
Operation Entebbe
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Irrfan Khan, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri’s Alma Mater, NSD’s Theatre Olympics • Mar 17, 2018 at 06:58 AM
by Siraj Syed

Irrfan Khan, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri’s Alma Mater, NSD’s Theatre Olympics India’s National School of Drama (NSD) has produced many a luminary in the field of film and television, both in front...

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Dr. Arjun Deo Charan
Gateway of India
Dr. Mahesh Sharma
Ministry of Culture
Nehru Centre
Ravindra Natya Mandir
Tom Stoppard
Navid Inamdar
Arvind Gidwani
Waman Kendre
Ashok Banthia
B.V. Karanth
Naseeruddin Shah
Om Shivpuri
Sudha Shivpuri
Sai Paranjpye
Harpal Tiwana
Ramgopal Bajaj
Kamlakar Sontakke
Amal Allana
Uttara Baokar
M.K. Raina
Nadira Zaheer Babbar
Manohar Singh
Surekha Sikri
Jayadev Hattangadi
Rohini Hattangadi
Raj Babbar
Pankaj Kapur
K.K. Raina
Anita Kanwar
Anupam Kher
Gyan Shivpuri
Raghubir Yadav
Alok Nath
Ratna Pathak
Deepa Sahi
S. Ghodke
Himani Shivpuri
Bani Sharad Joshi
Madhusree Dutta
Sushmita Mukheree
Seema Biswas
Saleem Arif
Atul Tiwari
Shrivallabh Vyas
Yusuf Khurram
Renuka Israni
Satish Kaushik
Piyush Mishra
Meeta Vashist
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Ashish Vidyarthi
Zakir Hussain
Swanand Kirkire
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Kunud Mishra
Gopal Dutt
Om Puri and Irrfan Khan.
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