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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. 

 

Singers and music labels come together for long-awaited agreement on royalty The Indian Music Industry (IMI), the apex body representing all music labels in India, and the Indian Singers Rights...

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Independent
FILM
Talat Aziz
Alka Yagnik
A. Hariharan
Kumar Sanu
Shailendra Singh
Udit Narayan. Anuradha Paudval
Sonu Nigam
Blaise Fernandes
SaReGaMa
Anup Jalota
Piyush Goyal
Sanjay Tandon
IMI
ISRA
Lata Mangeshkar
Asha Bhosle
Grand Hyatt

Book review - Tears of the Begums, by Rana Safvi: Rivetting, heart-rending chronicle Are conquerors and kings plunderers and mass murderers? Should a succeeding, weak generation face the wrath of...

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Hachette
Timur
Babar
Arjumand Bano
Mumtaz Mahal
Ibrahim Lodi
Khwaja Hasan Nizami
Begumat Ke Aansoo
Gazanfar
Reya Ahmed
Safavid

PVR brings Japanese anime film Suzume to India, director Shinkai comes to promote it Japanese film director Makoto Shinkai, who wears his 50 years rather lightly, wowed a gathering of media-persons...

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Makoto Shinkai
Sanjeev Kumar Bijli
Manasi Scott

Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award goes to Asha Bhosle Instituted in the memory of the late great singer, Lata Mangeshkar, on whom the highest civilian honour of India, the Bharat Ratna was bestowed by...

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Meghranjini Medhi
Marami Medhi
Usha Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
Meena Mangeshkar Khadikar
Aadinath Mangeshkar
A. Hariharan
Pankaj Udhas
Rahul Deshpande
Narendra Modi
Prabhu Kunj

Guru Indrajeet Keisham’s mission: Learn music, perform music save music Hindustani music, like other forms of traditional Indian music and dance, could face extinction over the coming decades....

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Udit Narayan
Bindu
Daboo Malik
Guru Sudhindra Bhaumik