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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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IFFI Goa 2017, XII: Winners’ List, and a few regrets • Dec 04, 2017 at 06:08 PM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI Goa 2017, XII: Winners’ List, and a few regrets It was an evening of regret. At the closing ceremony of the 48th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which concluded in Panaji, Goa on...

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Amitabh Bachchan
Armenian
Atom Egoyan
Battements par Minute
Beats per Minute
BPM
Dark Skull
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal
Kala Academy
Kiro Russo
Kshitij
Mahesh Narayan
Manouj Kadaamh
Marathi
Morocco
Nahuel Perez Biscaryat
Parvathy
Robin Campillo
Saat Hindustani
Satyajit Ray
Take Off
Vivian Au
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IFFI Goa 2017, XI: International Competition to feature 3 Indian entries and 12 country premieres • Nov 20, 2017 at 10:24 AM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI Goa 2017, XI: International Competition to feature 3 Indian entries and 12 country premieres Village Rockstars, the mouse that roared, the sleeper that rocked the Mumbai Film Festival and the...

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A Man of Integrity
Take-Off
Village Rockstars
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IFFI Goa 2017, X: Big names, big awards • Oct 16, 2019 at 07:01 PM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI Goa 2017, X: Big names, big awards Two days before the curtain opens on the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), the Press Information Bureau (PIB) has issued a release listing the...

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Actor-Director Tzahi Grad
Alberto Barbera
Andrei Tarkovsky
augmented reality
canada
Craig Mann
Festival director Maxine Williamson from Australia
Fritz Lang
Golden and Silver Peacock awards. The International Competition jury will be headed by renowned filmmaker Muzaffar Ali
israel
james bond
metropolis
Mixed Reality Sidebar
Nitesh Tiwari Farah Khan
oscar
Roger Christian
Russian Cinematographer Vladislav Opelyants
Sacrifice
Shekhar Kapur
United Kingdom. Armenian
Venice
who is joined by his fellow jury members
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Bose Dead or Alive: Rajkummar Rao in thriller take on Indian freedom fighter • Nov 18, 2017 at 05:28 PM
by Siraj Syed

Bose Dead or Alive: Rajkummar Rao in thriller take on Indian freedom fighter If you were a patriot and freedom seeker in the British colonial India of the 1920s-1940s, you either believed in...

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Andrew T. Mackay
Bombay Dub Orchestra fame
Debashish Makhija
Absent
Yasha Ramchandani
Indian National Congress
Germany
japan
Naveen Kasturia
Edward Sonnenblick
Alexx O'Nell
Anna Ador
Zachary Coffin
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Jawaharlal Nehru
Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Pulkit
Indian National Army
Azad Hind Fauj
Maroon
Netflix
Sachin Khedekar
Shyam Benegal
Aparesh Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri
Hansal Mehta
Patralekhaa
Rajkummar Rao
Boe: The Forgotten Hero
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Tumhari Sulu, review: BALAN sing act • Nov 17, 2017 at 06:49 PM
by Siraj Syed

Tumhari Sulu, review: BALAN sing act An aspiring film-maker was driving back from work one night in Mumbai and caught a late night phone-in show on local FM radio. That’s all it took. His launch...

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Abhishek Sharma
Hawa Hawaii
Manav Kaul
Neha Dhupia
Radio Jockey
Ranchi
RJ
S.P. Balasubrahmanyam
Santanu Ghatak
Seema Taneja
Sindhu Shekharan
Suresh Triveni
Trupti Khamkar
Uday Lagoo
Vidya Balan
Vijay Maurya
Zuby Zuby Zuby
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