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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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MAMI’s Mumbai Film Festival: The chosen ones, the winning ones • Nov 13, 2023 at 06:55 AM
by Siraj Syed

MAMI’s Mumbai Film Festival: The chosen ones, the winning ones It must have been January 1995. A group of film-makers and film-buffs were talking about Mumbai having its own film festival, since the...

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Anupama Chopra
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Jagran Film Festival awakens us to some great cinema • Nov 08, 2023 at 03:20 PM
by Siraj Syed

Jagran Film Festival awakens us to some great cinema Back after a three-year hiatus, prompted by the Coronavirus Covid 19, Jagran Film Festival (JFF) stuck to its base in Mumbai, the Cinépolis...

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Mrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway
Jayaraj Kozhikod
Malayalam
for Jananam: 1947 Pranayam Thudarunnnu
Manoj VajpayeeManish Mundra
Siya
Anees Bazmi
Amit Rai
DK
Raj
Sunayana Katta
Subhash Ghai
Rani Mukerji
Dainik Jagran Prakashan
Adil Hussain
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Mujib-The Making of a Nation, Review: How to fit three decades in three hours • Oct 31, 2023 at 12:03 PM
by Siraj Syed

Mujib-The Making of a Nation, Review: How to fit three decades in three hours Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, the tall, towering personality who was the single most important leader of East Pakistan, and...

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Arifin Shuvoo
Akashdeep Pandey
Shantanu Moitra
Aseem Sinha
Shama Zaidi
Atul Tiwari
Shyam Benegal
bangladesh
Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman
East Pakistan
I.S. Johar
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12th Fail, Review: Want to bet on it? The chances are 30 out of 2,00,000 • Oct 27, 2023 at 07:38 PM
by Siraj Syed

Hara Vahi Jo Lada Nahi (only he who did not fight loses) is the tagline on the book, 12th Fail, written in Hindi by Anurag Pathak and translated into English by Gautam Choubey and Lalit Kumar. For...

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Aayush Saxena
Abhishek Sengupta
Anshuman Pushkar
Anurag Pathak
Dilip Tomar
Fasi Khan
Harish Khanna
Jaskunwar Kohli
Joshi Anantvijay
Medha Shankr
Priyanshu Chatterjee
Rangarajan Ramabadran
Salim Siddiqui
Sam Mohan
Sanjay Bishnoi
Sarita Joshi
Shantanu Moitra
Sukumar Tudu
Suraj Naagar
Triaksh Chhabra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vijay Kumar Dogra
Vikas Divyakirti
Vikrant Massey
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IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Drama Competition scores 50, marches on • Oct 21, 2023 at 12:16 PM
by Siraj Syed

IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Drama Competition scores 50, marches on Was it the first or was it the second? Was it 1972 or 1973? My introduction to the annual competition is nevertheless at least 49...

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Ramesh Talwar
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