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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. 

 

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Cinema Speculation’: Autobiography? Encyclopaedia? Critiques?...Keep Speculating! Confined by time (1968-1981) and restricted to select genres, like revenge, gory violence,...

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Zwigato, Review: Wobbligato Too good to be true-life, Zwigato might have been inspired by true incidents. The narrative does try to convey that feel. At first, it sucks you in with its no blemish...

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Gul Panag
Jabeen Merchant
Kapil Sharma
Nandita Das
Samir Patil
Shahana Goswami

Triangle of Sadness: An American Marxist and a Russian Capitalist on a $250 m yacht As movies go, there are several advantages of being different. Genre films have been beaten to death and critics,...

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Harris Dickinson
Charlbi Dean
Dolly Earnshaw de Leon
Vicki Berlin
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Rabia and Olivia, Review: A loving, fatherless nanny and a motherless, disturbed girl It is not too often that an Indie film, having Canadian and Indian actors, strikes a few right chords, avoids...

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Nayab Khan
Shadab Khan
Yousef Sheikh

Khela Hobe, Review: Om Puri lives, six years after his death Your gut reaction on seeing a film like Khela Hobe is to lambast it, tear it to shreds and dump it in the bin. You can have a field day...

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Manoj Joshi
Mugdha Godse
Om Puri
Rati Agnihotri
Rushad Rana
Sanjay Batra
Sanjay Mayal
Sunil C. Sinha