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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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Directors’ Diaries, by Rakesh Anand Bakshi, Book Review: A dozen journeys, a dozen destinations • Sep 13, 2015 at 09:32 AM
by Siraj Syed

Directors’ Diaries, by Rakesh Anand Bakshi, Book Review: A dozen journeys, a dozen destinations Aspiring director and son of India’s renowned film-lyricist, late Anand Bakhshi, Rakesh Bakshi has...

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Subhash Ghai
Imtiaz Ali
Santosh Sivan
Govind Nihalani
Anurag Basu
Ashutosh Gowariker
Saeed Mirza
Farah Khan
Zoya Akhtar
Frank Capra
Vishal Bharadwaj
Prakash Jha
Mahesh Bhatt
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Anand Bakhshi
Karl Bardosh
Meghna Ghai-Puri
David Lean
coverage
video-assist
journey
destination
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We Are Your Friends, Review: A DJ’s success recipe--EDM, BPM and PCP • Sep 11, 2015 at 09:30 AM
by Siraj Syed

Instagram founder Kevin Systrom sold his company for a billion dollars, so what are these four coming-of-age ‘bro’s doing wasting their time? In between luring young music lovers to ‘socials’ and...

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Alex Shaffer
Alicia Coppola
Beyonce
Box-office Mojo
BPM
Catfish
DJ
Drunk in Love
EDM
Emily Ratajkowski
GRAMMY
Instagram
Jay-Z
Jon Bernthal
Jonny Weston
Kevin Systrom
Matthew Simpson
Max Joseph
Meaghan Oppenheimer
PCP
Richard Silverstein
rotoscoping
Shiloh Fernandez
Wes Bentley
zac efron
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The Path of Zarathustra, Review: The temperature of departure • Sep 03, 2015 at 07:57 PM
by Siraj Syed

The Path of Zarathustra, Review: The temperature of departure To say that Parsees are a minority community in India, or, for that matter, anywhere in the world, might be an understatement. Official...

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Parsi
Parsee
Avesta
Atash Behram
Tom Alter
Oorvazi Irani
Sorab Irani
Rushad Rana
Firdausi Jussawala
Vasuda Sharma
Vivek Tandon
Darius Shorff
monotheistic religions
Mazdak
Zurvan
Kardir
Zoraster
Zorastrianism
endangered species
Farrukh Dhondy
Bandit Queen
Zarathustra
Iran
Hormuz
Pahelwi
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Transporter Refueled, Review: Fuel efficient and fired up • Sep 28, 2015 at 07:15 PM
by Siraj Syed

Transporter Refueled, Review: Fuel efficient and fired up Originally titled The Transporter Legacy, the film’s French title remains Le Transporteur: Héritage, while in American English, it is...

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Adam Cooper
Bill Collage
Camille Delamarre
Ed Skrein
french riviera
fuel
Harrison Ford
Indiana Jones
Jason Statham
Loan Chanabol
luc besson
n
Ray Stevenson
Robert Mark Kamen
Russia fire
Sean Connery
taken
Vendetta
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She’s Funny That Way, Review: Screwball sex comedy, the Bogdanovich way • Sep 28, 2015 at 07:16 PM
by Siraj Syed

She’s Funny That Way, Review: Screwball sex comedy, the Bogdanovich way In Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown (1946), Charles Boyer, playing Adam Belinski, says to Jennifer Jones, “In Hyde Park, some...

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audition
call-girl
Charles Boyer
Cluny Brown
comedy
Cybill Shepherd
Dorothy Stratten
DRAMA
escort
existentialist
Frank Sinatra
hooker
Illeana Douglas
Imogen Poots
Jennifer Aniston
John Ritter
Kathryn Hahn
Loiuse Stratten
Owen Wilson
Peter Bogdanovich
prostitute
Quentin Tarantinio
Rhys Ifans
screwball
Tatum O'Neal
théâtre
wes anderson
Will Forte
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