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
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival Reviews, The Threshold: I’ll take your leave
A good old joke goes like this:
An ideal marriage is one wherein two people become one.
The problems arise when they want to...
NYIFF-G5A Film Festival Reviews, Kadambari: Platonic tonic and poetic injustice
Literally, ‘of/from the Kadamba tree’, the word kadambari (kaadambari in Hindi and kaadambori in Bengali) lends itself...
G5A-NYIFF Film Festival Reviews: Daaravtha (Marathi for Threshold)
Here’s one more winner screened at ongoing the G5A-NYIFF Film Festival: Best Debut Film of a Director at the 63rd National Film...
Reviews, G5A-NYIFF screenings: Agli Baar, Absent, El’ Ayichi
Devashish Makhija is a Kolkata boy who was so shattered by his mother’s death that he got on to a Mumbai-bound train, in an unreserved...
