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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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Paddington 2, review: Bear maximum • Jan 14, 2018 at 12:57 PM
by Siraj Syed

Paddington 2, review: Bear maximum Imagine a London where bears are accepted as persons and move about freely; a London where Aunt Lucy and her nephew Paddington board a bus and buy tickets for...

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4.50 from Paddington
Agatha Christie
Aileen Atkins
Ben Whiswaw
Brendan Gleeson
Charlie Chaplin
Hugh Bonneville
hugh grant
Imelda Staunton
Jerry Lewis
Jim Broadbent
Laurel & Hardy
Madeleine Harris
marmalade
Meera Syal
Murder She Said
Norman Wisdom
orange
Paul King
Sally Hawkins
Samuel Joslin
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Simon Farnaby
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tom Conti
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Downsizing, review: Mini We • Jan 11, 2018 at 08:28 PM
by Siraj Syed

Downsizing, review: Mini We Once in a while, a movie comes along that renews our faith in creative writing and the ability of cinema to rise above its own decadence. Maybe it took a dozen ‘shrink’,...

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Ad Hominem Enterprises
Alexander Payne
boat-people
Christoph Waltz
Hong Chau
Jason Sudeikis
Jim Taylor
Kristen Wiig
Laura Dern
Matt Damon
mustard gas
Neil Patrick Harris
Nobel
norwegian
Occupational (Physio) Therapist
pain-killers Hispanic
party drugs
Rolf Lassgård
Søren Pilmark
udo kier
Vietnamese
World war I
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MIFF 2018, II • Jan 10, 2018 at 09:50 AM
by Siraj Syed

MIFF 2018, II Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation Films, which begins on 28 January, 2018 in Mumbai, has released the list of films to be screened in four...

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3 Seconds Divorce
A Brave Bunch: Uprising through children’s eyes
Abdul & Jose
Amar Kaushik
Anand Kamalakar
Anna Hints
Anshul Tiwari
are you sleeping?
Atul
Born Together
Brother Jakob
Campus Rising
Charlie vs Goliath
David Blamey
Earth Crusader
Farha Khatun
Grandfather
I am Bonnie
ICE
Jahnu Barua
Kamal Swaroop
Lata Mani
Luigi Acquisto
Lurdes Pires
Mathieu Roy
My Secret Forest
MY TURN
Nadav Direktor
Nakyung Kim
Neeta Jain Duhaut
Nicolas Grandi
Niina Brandt
Nupur Basu
Reed Lindsay
RICE
Ros Horin
SALAM
Satarupa Santra
Shabnam Ferdousi
Shabnam Sukhdev
Shazia Javed
Shirley Abraham & Amit Madheshiya
Sourabh Kanti Dutta
Stefan Bohun
Surabhi Family In Life In Drama
THAT GUSTY MORNING
THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE
The Cinema Travellers
The Dispossessed
The Egg
The Poetics of Fragility
Tomasz Stankiewicz
Velvet Revolution
Wabi Sabi
Yousuf Saeed
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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VIII • Jan 08, 2018 at 10:37 AM
by Siraj Syed

16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VIII Besides Marathi, Bengali language films saw fair representation at TEAFF. There were two Assamese films as well. Internationally, of course, we had a strong...

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euthanasia
Arup Manna
Ananya
Pupa
Aideu
Aarohi
Kollol School of Arts
Nagaon
Central Board of Film Certification
Kamaleswar Mukherjee
Sudiptaa Chakraborty
Rahul
Debaprasad Haldar
Indrasis Acharya
Billu Rakkhosh
Marathi
Bengali
Assamese
Asian Film Foundation
P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy
Prabhat Chitra Mandal
Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal
Department of Culture
Government of Maharashtra
Ravindra Natya Mandir Mini Auditorium
mumbai
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16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VII • Jan 08, 2018 at 09:16 AM
by Siraj Syed

16th Third Eye Asian Film Festival: VII TEAFF was organised by the Asian Film Foundation and P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy, and co-organised by Prabhat Chitra Mandal and Akhil Bharatiya...

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Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Chitrapat Mahamandal
Anil Nagarkar
Anil Pandey
Anshuman Vichare
Anupam Kher
Asian Film Foundation
commercialisation
corruption
Dayasagar Wankhede
Department of Culture
education
Government of Maharashtra
Hemant Dhabade
Indira Gandhi
internal emergency
Jagannath Nivangune
Kailas Waghmare
Kamlesh Sawant
Kasu village
Kirti Kulhari
Madhur Bhandarkar
Manav Vij
Milind Shinde
Mohan Kapoor
Mujtaba Aziz Nazan
mumbai
Neil Nitin Mukesh
P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy
Parvin Dabas
Pen
Poonam Waghmare
Prabhat Chitra Mandal
Rahul Salve
Ravindra Natya Mandir Mini Auditorium
Rukhsana Sultana
Sanjay Chhel
Sanjay Gandhi
satyagraha
Sheeba Chaddha
Supriya Vinod
Tota Roy Chowdhury
Vipul Salunkhe
Zakir Hussain
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