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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. 

 

In many ways, Dilip Kumar is an enigma, even if part of the enigma is designer stuff. Very little is known about his early life, and he quit films in 1998, so even less is known about the last 17...

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Ashok Kumar
Asma
Autobiography
Dilip Kumar
Madhubala
Roshan Kumari
Saira Banu
Udayatara Nayar
Yousuf Khan

Against the Sun, Teaser review: Water, water everywhere Harold Dixon (Garret Dillahunt), Radioman Gene Aldrich (Jake Abel), and Bombardier Tony Pastula (Tom Felton) take off from the aircraft...

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Against the Sun
Tom Felton
Garret Dillahunt
Jake Abel
Brian Falk
Pearl Harbor
WWII
USS Enterprise
Unbroken
Open Water
127 HOURS

The Lazarus Effect, Review: Death-act and cataract Back from the dead. Brought back from the dead. One dog and one woman brought back from the dead. The dog as a guinea pig (after a pig failed to...

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blumhouse
cataract
David Gelb
Effect
hell
Jeremy Slater
Lazarus
Luke Dawson
Mark Duplass
Olivia Wilde

  Coffee Bloom, Review: Going thru the grind Meet a Coorgi boy who speaks chaste Hindi with everybody, and practically no Coorgi or Kannada with anybody. Also, he in no way looks like his mother or...

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Arjun Mathur
Coffee Bloom
Coorg
Estate
Ishwari Bose Bhattacharya
Manu Warrier
Mohan Kapur
Sugandha Garag

      Kingsman—The Secret Service, Review: Tinkering tailors, soldiering spies Opening titles assembled bond-style, prologue in the ‘father’s sacrifice will not go in vain, for the son will step...

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Colin Firth
KIngsman
Michael Caine
Michael Vaughn
Samuel L. Jackson
Sofia Boutella
Taron Egerton
The Secret Service
X-Men First Class