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. @SirajHSyed
FICCI Frames 18, VI: Master Class by master director R. Balki
Ace ad film maker turned ace feature film director, R. Balki, chatted with senior TV journalist Anuradha Sengupta in a Master Class on...
FICCI-FRAMES 18, V: Keynote address of Mr. Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom 18
After Sunday evening’s inaugural, where Ms. Smriti Irani, India’s Federal (Union) Minister for Information and...
Shashi Kapoors don’t die: Part II
The second and concluding part of a personal tribute to the great man.
It has not come soon, as you might have expected. My apologies. Too much was happening. But...
Red Sparrow, Review: Spread-eagled
Think of an American film that is 158 minutes long--probably 150 minutes in a country like India, which has a reasonably strict censorship regime—and then read the...
The Valley, Review: A suicide, a steep cliff, the sea and a gun
Silicon it is. And IT. The Valley story is told from the perspective of an Indian family. It is placed in the present, or the not too...
