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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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Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, Review: Sucker bunch and the sex carrots • Oct 17, 2015 at 08:59 PM
by Siraj Syed

Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, Review: Sucker bunch and the sex carrots                                              Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2 has been described in some media reports as a not so true sequel to...

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Akash Vani
Delhi
Ghaziabad
Hindu College
Ishita Sharma-Raj
Kartik Aaryan
Kartikeya Tiwari
Krabi
Luv Ranjan
Manvir Singh
Miss India International
Mona Ambegaonkar
Nushrat Bharucha
Pattaya
Rahul Modi
Raman Kapoor
Salman Khan
Sex Comedy
Sharat Saxena
Sonalli Sehgall
Sunny Singh Nijjar
Tarun Jain
Thailand
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Pan, Review: Flying Pantasy • Oct 12, 2015 at 03:38 PM
by Siraj Syed

Pan, Review: Flying Pantasy Once you pick up a hundred year-old children’s story and decide to invent its unwritten prequel, 3D and CGI are obvious choices. Yes, you could go overboard on both...

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Adeel Akhtar
Amanda Seyfried
Anoushka Shankar
Blackbeard
fairy
fly
flying
Hugh Jackman
J.M. Barrie
Jack Charles
Jason Fuchs
Joe Wright
levi Miller
Neverland
Nirvana
Peter Pan
R. Kelly
Rooney Mara
Tiger Lily
TinkerBell
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Sicario, Review: One drug cartel is better than two • Jul 08, 2018 at 07:03 AM
by Siraj Syed

Sicario, Review: One drug cartel is better than two Breath-taking aerial shots of the US-Mexico border area and amazingly choreographed encounter scenes are the highlight of Sicario, a drug cartel...

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Benicio Del Toro
by the book
cartel
CIA
Colombia
Daniel Kaluuya
Denis Villeneuve
drug
Emily Blunt
FBI
Josh Brolin
Medellin
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Roger Deacon
Taylor Sheridan
Victor Garber
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Talvar, Review: Whodunit? Doesn’t matter! • Oct 16, 2015 at 04:49 PM
by Siraj Syed

Talvar, Review: Whodunit? Doesn’t matter! Like the 1950 Japanese cult film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa and often rated as one of the greatest films ever made, remade n number of times in...

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Aarushi
Atul Kumar
CBI
double-murder
Gajraj Rao
Gulzar
honour killing
Konkona Sen Sharma
Meghna Gulzar
Neeraj Kabi
Noopur
Pankaj
Patrick French
Prakash Belwadi
Rashomon
Sohum Shah
Sreekar Prasad
Tabu
Talwar
Vijay Shankar
Vishal Bharadwaj
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Singh is Bling, Review: Kickass, jackass and badass • Oct 02, 2015 at 07:38 PM
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Singh is Bling, Review: Kickass, jackass and badass                                                                                       Singh is blink-ing. Maybe winking. After many head-banging,...

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Akshay Kumar
Amy Jackson
Anees Bazmee
Chintan Gandhi
Goa
holland
Kay Kay Menon
Kunal Kapoor
Lara Dutta
morons
Patiala
Prabhudeva
Punjabi
Rai Agnihotri
Romania
Shiraz Ahmed
Singh is King
Sufi
Yograj Singh
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