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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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Freaky Ali, Review: Laddie, caddie, baddie and the golf war comaddie • Sep 09, 2016 at 10:32 PM
by Siraj Syed

Golf is not very popular in India. Neither is ice hockey. Cricket is. So you cannot blame Sohail Khan for making these basic changes to the plot of the Adam Sandler film of yesteryear, Happy Gilmore...

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Adam Sandler
Amy Jackson
Arbaaz Khan
Happy Gilmore
Jackie Shroff
Jas Arora
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Raaj Shandilyaa
Sajid-Wajid
Salman Khan
Seema Biswas
Sohail Khan
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Don’t Breathe, Review: Wait Until Bark • Sep 02, 2016 at 04:57 PM
by Siraj Syed

Don’t Breathe, Review: Wait Until Bark “Just because he’s blind, it don’t mean he’s a saint,” says Money. Money is a nick-name, and he’s right about the blind guy. He’s no saint. He’s a Gulf War...

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Evil Dead
Fede Alvarez
Stephen Lang
Jane Levy
Dylan Minette
Rodo Sayagues
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Island City, Review: Fun and the Gun, Idiot and the Box, BeauT and IT • Sep 02, 2016 at 12:53 PM
by Siraj Syed

  Early on in Ruchika Oberoi’s Island City, an IT company Manager reminds his employees that its temporary tagline, the three words, all beginning with F, do not constitute the company’s ‘motto’....

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Amruta Subhash
Ashwin Mushran
FTII
NFDC
Niolfar Haja
RJ Sidhharth
Ruchika Oberoi
Samir Kochhar
Tannishtha Chatterjee
Uttara Baokar
Vinay Pathak
XIC
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Vidnet 2016: Casting the content net far and vid--Bollywood, Hollywood, and..? • Aug 28, 2016 at 05:10 PM
by Siraj Syed

Vidnet 2016: Casting the content net far and vid--Bollywood, Hollywood, and..? MUMBAI: Bollywood, Hollywood and sports content will certainly get you traction, but ultimately, well thought out...

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Abhimanyu Singh
Beyond Dreams Entertainment.
CEO
Co-Founder and Director VEQTA
Contiloe Entertainment
EVP and Head Digital Business
Founder
HOOQ India
Isobar and Yash Patnaik
Mahesh Narayanan
Managing Director
MD
MD and CEO iProspect
Saavn
Salil Kapoor
Shamsuddin Jasani
Sony Pictures India
Uday Sodhi
Varun Mathur
Viviek Bhargava
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CommumnicAsia 2016: Piddock’s Glisser; clients like Microsoft, AMEX, VISA, Bloomberg, UPS: looking for US Business Manager • Aug 24, 2016 at 08:44 PM
by Siraj Syed

CommumnicAsia 2016: Piddock’s Glisser; clients like Microsoft, AMEX, VISA, Bloomberg, UPS: looking for US Business Manager Micahel 'Mike' Piddock inhabited the U.K. longe at CommunicAsia 2016,...

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Rebecca Tobi
Microsoft Venture accelerator
visa
AMEX
UPS
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