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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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Siraj Syed reviews Biddu’s autobiography, Made in India: Lone Trojan’s Adventures of a Lifetime • Feb 14, 2017 at 07:38 AM
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Siraj Syed reviews Biddu’s autobiography, Made in India: Lone Trojan’s Adventures of a Lifetime That life-time has now seen 72 summers. Karnataka-born world musician Biddu Appaiah, with Coorgi...

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Riaz
Ittefaq
King Khan
Young Tarang
Hotline
Dharmendra
Raj Kapoor
Paul McCartney
Drive-in
Ramu To Diwana Hai
Chandru Hingorani
Kishore Kumar
Mukesh
Mubaarak begum
I.S. Johar
K.B. Lall
Naushad
Phir Baje Shehani
the Lone Trojan
Venice
Ambassador
Blue Eyed Soul
Dance Little Lady Dance
Kung-Fu Fighting
Zak
ZaZa
Rashad Patel
Harper Collins
Read Out Loud
sex
drugs
alcohol
Curse of the Godman
Meher Baba
Alisha Chinai
Shweta Shetty
Anil Joharr
Suresh Bhojwani
Tina Charles
Appaiah
Su
Sheba
Carl Douglas
Nazia Hassan
Zoheb Hassan
Disco Deewane
Qurbani
Feroz Khan
Kumar Gaurav
Star
The Bitch
The Stud
Joan Collins
bangalore
Coorgi
Maut ki Sazaa
Rise of the Zombie
Shootout at Lokhandwala
Afghan
EMBASSY
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Aamir, Nasir, Tahir, Tariq, Mansoor, Amjad: Movies, Masti, Modernity, Flashback 4 • Feb 11, 2017 at 07:03 PM
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Aamir, Nasir, Tahir, Tariq, Mansoor, Amjad: Movies, Masti, Modernity, Flashback 4 To remind you, Aamir is indeed Aamir Khan, Amjad is definitely Gabbar Singh, and the triple M above is to...

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Kishore Kumar
Shanmukhananda Hall
Zeenat Aman
Neetu Singh
Yaadon Ki Baaraat
Suresh Bhatt
Vijay Arora
Dharamvir Varma
Anamika
Rahul Dev Burman
Caravan
Hare Rama Hare Krishna
Mithibai College
National College
Bandra
Meboob Studios
Filmistan Studios
Goregaon
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Siraj Syed reviews Kaagaz Ki Kashti: Paper-boat ride across oceans of melody • Feb 11, 2017 at 08:40 AM
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Siraj Syed reviews Kaagaz Ki Kashti: Paper-boat ride across oceans of melody         When you are making a biopic, you first need to narrow down on either a famous person, or a commoner who has led...

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Urdu
Subhash Ghai
Mahesh Bhatt
Salim Arif
tabla
Ustad Zakir Hussain
Pankaj Udhas
Ghulam Ali
Pakistani
ghazal
Anup Jalota
Hans Raj Hans
Roop Kumar Rathod
Talat Aziz
Ashok Khosla
Ghansham Vaswani
Vinod Sehgal
Harsh Goenka
SaReGaMa
HMV
Daman Sood
Deepak Khazanchi
Deepak Pandit
Ronu Majumdar
Geeta Prem
Ameesha Patel
Mirza Asadullah Khan 'Ghalib'
Rahul Deb Burman
Brahmanand S Siingh
Tanvi Jain
Jabeen Merchant
Pancham Unmixed
Mujhe Chalte Jaana Hai
Mobius Films
Chitra Singh
Gulzar
SriGangaNagar
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Siraj Syed reviews Moonlight: Silences waxing eloquent • Feb 15, 2017 at 08:25 PM
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Siraj Syed reviews Moonlight: Silences waxing eloquent ‘Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon’—Walter de la Mare In The Color Purple, we realised that black persons...

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Alex Hibbert
André Holland
Barry Jenkins
Black or White
Gay
Homosexual
In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue
Jaden Piner
Janelle Monae
Jharrel Jerome
kicks
LGBT
Liberty
Mahershala Ali
Medicine for Melancholy
miami
moon
naomie harris
Outta Competition
Patrick Decile
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
queer
Rio 2
SELMA
Skyfall
Spectre
Tarell Alvin McCraney
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Hunger Games
The Retrieval
Walter de la Mare
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Ameen Sayani and the film Geetmala: Standing tall • Apr 20, 2019 at 08:08 AM
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Ameen Sayani and the film Geetmala: Standing tall "Every stage singer is a mimic,” said Ameen Sayani ‘clone’ Sagar Sayani to me, in the green room, “and imitates legendary film song singers,...

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Ameen Sayani
Amroota Nnatu
Behno aor Bhaiyo
Binaca Geetmala
Bobby
Central Bank of India
Cibaca Geetmala
Cibaca Sangeetmala
Colombo
compere
Gaurav Bangia
Global Punjabi Association
Hridaynath
Indian People's Theatre Association
Kuldeep Singh
Laxmikant-Pyarelal
master of ceremonies
Mayoor Shah
Minakshi Khosla
Monarch
Nehru Centre
Radha Mangeshkar
Radio Ceylon
Radio Jockey
Raj Khosla
Riaz
RJ Gaurav Shrivastava
Sagar Sayani
SriLanka Broadcasting Corporation
Sudesh Bhosle
Vividh Bharati
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